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| Sprawling Dreams |
| In late February 2003, anti-smart growth and public transit activists gathered for three days in Washington, D.C. to figure out how to promote their vision of an America that is based entirely on cars, cheap fuel, and suburban sprawl. The organizers of the "Preserving the American Dream" conference billed the gathering as the starting point of a new battle to advance what they view as their right to build anything anywhere. The conference was organized by a small number of loosely-connected, anti-public transportation zealots affiliated with extremist libertarian "think tanks," who travel from city to city in an attempt to confuse citizens and defeat public transportation ballot issues. One of the key speakers, Wendell Cox, is a St. Louis-based consultant whose web sites, publicpurpose.com and demographia.com, served as the central source for the misinformation utilized by the movement. Cox's bogus attacks have been paid for, in the past, by various lobbying groups whose members are drawn from the trucking, auto, cement and asphalt, heavy construction, and petroleum industries. For solid information and evidence that explains the benefits of smart growth and public transit, including rebuttals to specific claims made by Cox and others, visit http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/critics.html or http://www.sprawlwatch.org/. |
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