I will certainly never consent to a claim that the homes of 53,000 people, including 12,000 children, ought somehow to count as "industrial". Nor will I agree that the transportation system, which plays the role in a city that the circulatory system plays in the human body, somehow should not determine our policies. In practise, building a city that works means balancing needs, which include transportation, against esthetics. And if we decide that one part of the city needs to make no compromises on that score, then other parts must make more compromises.

That leads to a situation in which the interests of some residents trump the interests of others, in other words, an unequal city. And I will never consent to live in that kind of a city.

John Spragge