But they're currently being used right here in Albany.
There's a town called East Green Bush, New York, which is just outside of the city.
They're considering whether or not to develop to widen a couple of the corridors that go right through the city.
And there's actually a debate right now, whether or not they will develop the highway to be much wider,
or if they're going to develop Main Street.
Something that is more like the depiction of now-restries and wider sidewalks and tree plantings
and increased development along the roadway, along the sidewalks, rather.
And they've brought in one of the nation's leading traffic engineers, Walt Kool-Ach, pioneer,
in really getting transportation engineers to understand how important the community is,
and how important walking and cycling is.
And those visual aids have really been significant,
and not only helping people visualize change and sort of capturing their imagination,
but also getting them to just understand what Smart Growth is.
When we talk about compact development, most people will kind of get scared,
because they imagine the apartment buildings and all packed in.
But when they see some of the developments that really pursue these principles,
places like Kentlands and Maryland,
and these are places that most of your audience probably hasn't heard of,
but they'll see that these are quite appealing traditional-looking neighborhoods,
ones that have sidewalks.
The houses have porches, and there are alleys behind the houses,
so that all the truck traffic from the garbage trucks doesn't have to go along the front.
And there are places that have walking paths that go to the schools.
They are integrated neighborhoods, so they have little shops,
so people can, and little parks, so people can congregate and talk to their neighbors.
They're really delightful communities, and when people actually see what they look like,
their image of what Smart Growth is, compared to what's all really changed.
That is really, very, very interesting.
You know, Don, this has been extremely interesting and very informative.
