I was the hard-liner on the committee. I guess part of my Georgia Tech training as an industrial engineer was to try to be efficient, and it rankles me to see inefficiency. That's the grade of a rookie professor who is trying to show how tough he is. There were people on the committee whose view was that there was just so much that one could do at a given moment politically, and I was wrong to ask for all of it. Democracy seems not to go for the big changes unless it absolutely has to.
Dramatic action is needed to keep our world-class city from becoming second class.