Hunting with Angela again

There is no question that Angela Hunt is the City Council's most coherently outspoken member. There are times that I have agreed with her passions (the proposed Trinity River Tollway) and many times I have not (the convention center hotel. Jenny the Elephant, her reluctance trim sanitation services expenses while demagoguing about the low pay of non-city employees as though they were city employees, immediately come to mind).

This time around I must applaud her arguments for better planning that will provide Dallas with more walkable and, thus, more livable neighborhoods. In this blog entry, she argues for mass transportation over mass highway and street construction (something I have been advocating for years and which was the basis of my opposition to the Trinity Tollway) and she holds up Vancouver as an example Dallas should follow when it comes to how to create a livable city and not just be a whore for the suburbs, which we are today.

Her arguments are a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of this city.