🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <37b6eedc.49644475@news.erols.com>,
sarcastro@mindspring.com.nyetspam wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:24:30 -0400, "Dino Hill" <Galvatron3@acd.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >Maybe by planting trees and landscaping in metro and rural areas would
> >slightly ease the "environmentalist concerns" on interstates????  LIke
> >Atlanta!  Does anyone know of any similiar projects that have happened in
> >metro areas to "beautify our interstates".
> 
> That's one of my gripes against Virginia DOT's plan to widen the
> Capital Beltway: Yes, they own most of the right-of-way alongside, but
> trees have either grown up alongisde the road in the past 35 years,
> or, more often, are older growth. Removing them would be a depressing
> exercise, and there would be no room to plant new ones as a buffer.
> This is one of the reasons why the GW Parkway is such a nice drive,
> instead of looking at sound barriers and strip malls, you see heavy
> forest on one side and the river on the other. Very relaxing.

And now for the other viewpoint...I hate driving through there
because of all the damn trees.  You cannot see anything.  It is
like driving through an endless tunnel for mile after mile, almost
to the point of making me car sick.  Lets level the trees so there
is something to look at while traveling.

-john-

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