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The point Imhoff and others miss is that we don’t subsidize most other forms of fun. Just because something is fun doesn’t mean our public policy should give that fun priority over other fun, or that we should devote substantial public land to that fun at great taxpayer expense, or require new buildings to spend millions of dollars to accommodate the fun, crowding out other uses.
— David Alpert, responding to Gary Imhoff’s comment about “smart growth” (Imhoff’s quotation marks). My $0.02: Imhoff conjures all the American romanticism with the automobile, and some aspects of cars are fun, but highways, even when not clogged, are kinda boring. If you want to sell me on cars, do not wave flags about widening commuter-congested arteries and tell me those smart growth kids don’t know what fun is.
