What a bunch of liberal frickin morons at the Wash comPost! Talk about trying to bias the article as MUCH as possible against the ICC. Ugh!!!
Highways wil actually HELP children and the elderly by:
1: Taking the traffic out of neighborhoods, where children play.
2: Allowing vehicles to travel efficiently so that they DO NOT pollute the way they do in stop-and-go typical Maryland gridlock.
3: I'm sure I can go on and on if need be.
Liberals just hate that people don't all take public transportation to and from work. Well, all of the people except themselves, of course.
-- John M. Balbus
Bethesda
-- Jim Fary
Silver Spring
John Balbus is health program director at nonprofit Environmental Defense. Jim Fary is a former Environmental Protection Agency policy analyst and planner.
More liberal activists doing whatever they can to keep gridlock in the D.C. area. They already tried the "all of the children will die if you build the ICC" route. It has been approved by the state and federal government and has been in planning for 45 YEARS.
BUILD THE DAMN THING...
This is why I won't even steal a copy of the WaPo out of a trash can to line the bird cage. I have more respect for the bird shat.
This is exactly what Al Gore wants - to go back to the horse and buggy!
I think people probably don't pay too much attention to car exhaust because it's largely invisible. But the sheer volume of it near a major road is obviously quite large. At least they are not putting lead in gas anymore, but perhaps there are other substances in car exhaust that are not so great for children's developing minds and bodies.
Unfortunately, there is credibility. I do not live in the area under discussion, so I don't have a horse in this race. Statistics are proving a connection between the increase in asthma in society, particularly in children, to increased exposure to auto emissions. Those children who live closest to heavily-trafficed highways are at increased risk.
Of course, I also have another idea about this. When I was a child, children spent very little time in vehicles at all. They were not being constantly transported here and there. They were not exposed to heavy traffic on a daily basis or to idling vehicles. I knew 1 classmate in 13 years of school who had asthma. Nowadays, there might be as many as 2 or 3 in 1 classroom who need inhalers.
My son's girlfriend suffers from severe asthma. We almost lost her a couple of years ago.
I live in this area and frankly, I am against this new development. It will just encourage more sprawl and make the problem worse in the long run.
Let me guess. They're still debating on whether or not it should be built.