Let's go!

My distinct honor to post the 1st message on this group. Thanks J.H. 
for setting this group up. Thanks Karen, David, Gus, Matt, Joel, Paul 
for the discussion leading up to this. I hope that the creation of 
this group is a watershed event. It will take some real work and 
committment and more people to make this happen, got to start 
somewhere. I'll copy my post to Car Free Cities here as my intro to 
this effort.

____________Ron Wolf

Karen's letter published in today's issue of Carfree Times really 
resonated. I've been thinking along the same lines for, gosh, 30 
years. But as Karen notices, organizing to take over a town to create 
a car-free city has not been, so far, been effective. Efforts to 
create car-free towns haven't fared much better. Why? 

In the mid-70s, I was a minor player in an effort to create a car-
free subdivision outside of Cottage Grove, Oregon. At that time, I'm 
afraid, we were too starry-eyed and cash-poor to get the idea to fly. 
I've since lost track of the other folks who were trying to put this 
together, but the progress of the effort hinged on one particular 
fellow who dedicated a lot time to co-ordinating and planning. This 
is one essential element, a core of committed people.

Perhaps, Karen, a next step would be to create a discussion group 
where like-minded people can begin to work how to make your dream, 
our dream, a reality. I'd be happy to set this up. I think that we 
need a more specific discussion than the carfree_cities discussion. 
And, we need more specific goals than those of eco-cities or 
freestateproject. 

__________________Ron Wolf