This is our time. We are here to help make this future a reality, to leave something of real value behind for those who come after us. That is our dream, and now is our time. Now is Our Time I started by talking about the highway era. A time when transportation policy was measured in money, concrete and asphalt.
Times are no longer so simple.
In her book The March of Folly Barbara Tuchman observed that, too often, the power to act is accompanied by the failure to think. We no longer have the luxury of acting without thinking. Gentleman, we are out of money. Trails and greenways are the thinking person s answer to community development for the simple reason that, unlike so much of our public infrastructure, they serve so many community functions. Friends, now, this day in history, is our day.