Break The Gridlock!

Wisconsin Governor Doyle has put Milwaukee on track to be America's train manufacturing center of the 21st Century.

And, what could be more poetic than replacing a former automotive plant with a train manufacturer?  Well, maybe building trains in Detroit would have been better -- but Michigan is still holding the clamy hands of a lying, dying automobile industry.

There are people in this city who believe, in spite of an abundance of opposing evidence and logic, that cars belong.  They are dead wrong.

ANSWER Chicago ("Act Now to Stop War and End Racism") is a generally progressive group that has been one of the main organizers of anti-war and pro-immigrant demonstrations in Chicago in the last few years.  They unfortunately have become yet another example of accidental and misguided pro-car activism.  Recently, they opined on the issues of parking and parking rates:

http://www.chicagoanswer.net/ParkingMeter.htm

Today, the date the General Motors bankruptcy was announced, Michael Moore released letter entitled "Goodbye, GM ...by Michael Moore". In the letter, he recognizes the problem the private automobile is having on our society. Micheal Moore says of cars: "To continue to build them would only lead to the ruin of our species and much of the planet." He then editorializes on his suggested changes to national policy on in the wake of the event.