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AUDL 2012 NEGATIVE www.atlantadebate.org Negative Evidence Packet    Transportation Infrastructure
  
      
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its transportation infrastructure investment in the United States. ContentsCase Negative 3 1NC Inherency 4 1NC Inherency 5 1NC Social Justice Answers 6 1NC Social Justice Answers 8 1NC No Health Harms 9 1NC No Health Harms 10 AT: Military Readiness 11 AT: Global Warming 12 AT: Global Warming 13 AT: Global Warming 14 1NC Solvency Social Justice 16 1NC Solvency Social Justice 17 Solvency Extensions Social Justice 18 1NC No Active Transit Solvency 19 1NC No Active Transit Solvency 21 1NC No Active Transit Solvency 22 1NC No Active Transit Solvency 23 1NC No Active Transit Solvency 24 1NC No Active Transit Solvency 25 1NC No Active Transit Solvency 26 Extensions for Active Transportation Solvency 27 1NC No Planning Solvency 30 1NC No Planning Solvency 32 Highway Trade-off Disadvantage 34 1NC HIGHWAY TRADE-OFF DISADVANTAGE 1/3 35 1NC HIGHWAY TRADE-OFF DISADVANTAGE 2/3 36 1NC HIGHWAY TRADE-OFF DISADVANTAGE 3/3 37 Uniqueness Extensions—Funding to Highways Now 38 Uniqueness Extensions—US Infrastructure Good Now 39 Link Extensions—Less Money for Highways 40 Link Extensions—Highways Key to Growth 42 AT: China will decline 45 China Impact Extensions 47 Impact Extension: US Economic Hegemony 48 Impact Extension: US Hegemony prevents war 50 Impact Extension: US Hegemony prevents war 52 Budget Disadvantage 53 1NC Budget Disadvantage 1/3 54 Uniqueness Fiscal Discipline Now: 2NC 57 Uniqueness AT: Debt Limit after Election: 2NC 58 Uniqueness AT: Defense Authorization: 2NC 60 A2 Business Investment Turn: 2NC 61 2NC 64
Impact Calculus – 2NC 65 Impact Extensions 2NC 66 Budget Disadvantage--Food Prices Link 68 Food Prices Impact 69 Food Prices Impact extensions 71
Case NegativeThere are several arguments that are included here as direct attacks on the case. Inherency. Several existing federal statutes provide federal assistance to solve social equity, fund bike and walking paths, solve inequity in environmental implications of highways. Harm Answers. There are several arguments for why social justice and health care are not substantial problems. Solvency Answers. There are specific arguments for each solvency area. There are arguments that there is no solvency for social equity, that a number of factors will decrease the effectiveness of the plan on public health and generally that it is hard to develop clear and usable plans for solving social inequities. 1NC InherencyFederal and local programs are being adopted nowLindholm, 2011, (Raymond Lindholm, Georgia State University College of Law, Center for Health, Law, & Society) “Combating childhood obesity: A survey of laws affecting the built environments of low-income and minority children”, Review of Environment and Health 2011 From the federal government and major corporations down to grass-roots organizations many are working to implement policies that will influence the communities we live in for the better. The First Lady is drawing a lot of public attention to the issue with her “Let’s Move” campaign, and the President is committed to funding programs, such as Complete Streets, Safe Routes to School, and Fresh Food Financing Initiatives, which have been proven to be successful at the local and state levels. In addition, childhood obesity is a major news issue, with new stories tracking both the epidemic and new initiatives to fight it appearing in major news sources almost on a daily basis. Finally, as scientific studies establish stronger links between individual built-environment factors and childhood obesity policy makers will have better information to shape potent interventions. Many cycling programs exist nowKrizek, et al 2009. Kevin J Krizek--College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado, Susan L Handy--Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California at Davis, Ann Forsyth--City and Regional Planning, Cornell University. “Explaining changes in walking and bicycling behavior: challenges for transportation research”, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2009, volume 36, pages 725 - 740 As issues of traffic congestion, obesity, and climate change garner increased attention both globally and in the US, focus turns to the role of walking and cycling in mitigating such concerns. One is hard pressed to find any community not looking to spur walking and cycling activity through planning activities. This enthusiasm has created a need for evidence on the degree to which different policies have succeeded in increasing walking and cycling travel and producing other benefits for the community. Did the sidewalk encourage more people to become physically active? Did showers and locker rooms at the worksite spur cycling to work? Did the improved intersection increase rates of walking? How much fuel was saved by constructing the bicycle trail? Answers to such questions could influence future policy decisions. Evidence so far is sparse but may soon be growing. In the US the 2005 federal transportation authorization bill, SAFETEA-LU (safe, accountable, flexible, efficient transportation equity act: a legacy for users), provides more than $500 million to communities to construct nonmotorized transportation facilities and promote use of these facilities. The Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program (NTPP) specifically included $100 million for pilot programs in four communities to increase levels of walking and cycling. Such `interventions' provide a living laboratory often called for but rarely exploited in the transportation planning field. Thus, the NTPP also required an evaluation of the efficacy of these programs under the logic that documenting benefits in one community provides a basis for judging the potential benefits of proposed policies in other communities. Directory: wp-content -> uploads -> 2012 2012 -> The Case Against the nypd’s Quota-Driven ‘Broken Windows’ Policing What Is It? 2012 -> Aa and na members Dying from Tobacco 2012 -> [Baby Crying] 01: 04 [Ching 2012 -> Unit Name / Nom de l’unité uic / ciu dates 2012 -> What We Owe Jehovah’s Witnesses 2012 -> Oceans Challenge Badge 2012 -> Canadian cycling olympians 2012 -> Greg landry, june olkowski and tom lysiak 2012 -> William goldman 2012 -> Does translocation and restocking confer any benefit to the European eel population? A review Download 347.52 Kb. Share with your friends:
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