“The closure of the Washington Bridge has had an increasingly negative impact on our neighbors, businesses, infrastructure, and our local quality of life,” said Mayor Smiley in his press release.
The received wisdom is that environmental amenities are optional, whereas the more rational approach in the age of the climate disaster is that ecological healing and economic justice has to be at the core of our economic development plans and activities. Economists and boosters always down play the damager an out of control climate is doing to the economy and how much it will harm future endeavors. We need to place climate justice at the heart of planning for our community, and Mayor Smiley is way off course.. unfortunately such behavior is expected from a politician who still believes that economic inequality and what developers wnat, developers should get, are good for us
The Washington Bridge closure was the perfect excuse for the Mayor ripping up a bike path he didn't like from the beginning.
The received wisdom is that environmental amenities are optional, whereas the more rational approach in the age of the climate disaster is that ecological healing and economic justice has to be at the core of our economic development plans and activities. Economists and boosters always down play the damager an out of control climate is doing to the economy and how much it will harm future endeavors. We need to place climate justice at the heart of planning for our community, and Mayor Smiley is way off course.. unfortunately such behavior is expected from a politician who still believes that economic inequality and what developers wnat, developers should get, are good for us