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jasonlulu_2000
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 Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:54 pm Post subject: a sentence |
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We have lost our golden pedestrian touch in New York mostly because we still think about traffic as though it were 1950, and we needed Robert Moses to design a few giant freeways through town to get the cars moving again. But the fact is that more roads equal more traffic. New Yorkers always find good reasons to drive. Public transportation is dirty, time-consuming, unsafe. Walking takes too long. The children will be late for school. But choosing the car is no longer safe --- for your children who already don�t get enough exercise, for anyone�s lungs or for the future of New York as a livable place. We�ve already lost a lot of New York to traffic. If New Yorkers don�t get out of their cars soon, the city�s future residents won�t have a reason to.
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dragn
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We have lost our golden pedestrian touch in New York mostly because we still think about traffic as though it were 1950, and we needed Robert Moses to design a few giant freeways through town to get the cars moving again. But the fact is that more roads equal more traffic. New Yorkers always find good reasons to drive. Public transportation is dirty, time-consuming, unsafe. Walking takes too long. The children will be late for school. But choosing the car is no longer safe --- for your children who already don�t get enough exercise, for anyone�s lungs or for the future of New York as a livable place. We�ve already lost a lot of New York to traffic. If New Yorkers don�t get out of their cars soon, the city�s future residents won�t have a reason to.
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Actually it is a complete sentence, and what I think the writer means is something like this:
If New Yorkers keep choosing to drive more and more rather than getting out of their cars and walking more, taking public transportation more frequently and so on, then New York will become more and more polluted and less and less livable to the point where you'd have to be crazy to want to go for a walk.
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jasonlulu_2000
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| Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 6:47 pm Post subject: thanks |
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