NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/co/general/2305

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From: [e-mail] (Dick Dunn)
Subject: Pena picked for Transportation???
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:58:01 GMT
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[Forgive the ASCII; imagine a ~ over the n in every occurrence of "Pena"]

The rumors that have been floating around since Federico Pena ended up
helping Clinton's transition team with transportation now seem to be true:
He's going to get the cabinet post.

Wonderful.  Pena is the driving force behind Denver International Airport--
the biggest, dumbest boondoggle in the state's history.

The new Secretary of Transportation will be the guy who drove the planning
of a major international airport...without planning any roads to get to it!
It replaces one of the most efficient, closest large-city airports in the
country with one of the most distant, for no reason better than a sacrifice
to the almighty god Growth.  (Bad-weather air traffic delays at Stapleton
will simply be replaced with bad-weather ground-transportation delays.)

In an urban area already desperately choking on its own foul air, DIA's
location *intentionally* adds another corridor of development, not to
mention sprawl that will make the difficult urban transportation problems
even more difficult.

Bad move, Bill.  I hope the other cabinet appointments make more sense than
this one...
--
Dick Dunn    [e-mail]   -or-   raven!rcd    Boulder, Colorado USA
   ...Mr. Natural says, "Use the right tool for the job."