This is a guest post from Hans Noeldner, a trustee in the village of Oregon, Wisconsin, a rapidly growing bedroom community of about 8,300 near Madison, Wisconsin. Hans' first piece on the rules of downtown revitalization can be found here and his piece on the "Declaration of Dependence" can be found here.

Today he writes a letter to his fellow members of the Wisconsin Governor’s Task Force on Global Warming (GTFGW). It seems to me that the theme of “unwinding” vehicular one-upsmanship is pertinent…

Note, these are exactly the kind of stories we are looking for for the new TOD:Local segment, please submit them to Glenn or the eds box!

Dear GTFGW – Transportation Working Group (TWG) members:

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Imagine for a moment that we extrapolate into the future, from the relatively modest cars most people drove twenty-five years ago…to the 5,000-pound SUVs and 6,000-pound pickup trucks that dominate our suburbs today…to the vehicles that might cluster ‘round our soccer fields and school drop off zones after another ten or twenty years of “healthy” economic growth:

(You will have to click here, it's a flash module...and click “CST” and “MST” at the bottom.)