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I don’t think it would be that tenuous to relate at least a fair margin of our current economic and social state to poor planning and design, which in turn is a product of how we chose to build infrastructure and use land due to the social changes post world war II. Obviously, that methodology isn’t working economically or socially. I’m not saying this reasoning is entirely wrong, but that I just don’t fully understand the genius in repairing a failing system like our national highways, but discarding components of good land planning like parks and certain civic amenities. It’s clear that what Senator Coburn has proposed is aimed at trimming the fat. I’d just be worried that such a proposal will have a reverberating affect, continuing the ideologies regarding land use and design that I believe may have played a great role in leading us into our current situation and further marginalizing professions like landscape architecture and planning.

Could funds from the package still be used for alternative transportation projects or is this a big repave the highways project? Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Oklahoma known for pouring vast amounts of money into building and maintaining their highway system?