Reply #7: Back in the early 90s our city was looking at doing this, heavily pushed by the mayor in conjunction

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with Dupont (in Louisville). The mayor said the technology had all the kinks worked out of it and was working just fine in other cities. Our little environmental group had enough cash on hand to hire an engineering consultant to visit 4 of the cities where "everything was working just fine."
She found that there were a whole host of unsolved problems that our mayor had conveniently ignored or was just ignorant of (neither being acceptable). The findings of the consultant were used to convince the city council to vote this down. After the defeat, the mayor had a press conference where he proclaimed that some people in our city (us?) were just behind the times and didn't want progress. Jeesh - what an arrogant asshole!