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"Michael Malak" <malak@claygency.com> wrote in message
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> In article <38E36261.601401A3@clark.net>,
> klaatu@clark.net wrote:
> > Michael Malak wrote:
> > >
> > > The suburban arterial is the bane of the pedestrian, the bicyclist,
> > > and anyone who cares about architecture.
> >
> > I can see all of that except for the architecture.
>
> The U.S. is asphalt, fry pits, and strip malls.  Commercial
> establishments built on high-speed suburban arterials compete with
> gaudy signs for the attention of the quickly passing driver.
> The signs and the parking lots are built to accommodate the
> automobile lifestyle -- the architecture is lifeless.

Move to CUBA then if you don't like it.

>
>
> > Also, how does this opinion affect such routes as, say, MD 355?
> > It's not only a suburban arterial, but a fairly long inter-town
> > State Route.
>
> It's too late now.  It should never have been widened in the first
> place.

Yeah. Right.  I can remember 355 back when it was a rural road.  There is no
way that it would be good for anything today if it hadn't been widened.
Population increases in the county have probably more than doubled, and I
don't believe that the widened road induced this either.

>
>
> > > New construction of suburban arterials should be outlawed.

What a foolish statement.

> >
> > [...]
> > Also, I might question whether you'd have the same opinion of said
> > new arterials (inter-suburb connectors) were they built cut-and-cover
> > or simply cut down subsurface and overbridged with pedestrian-cyclist
> > overpasses.
>
> Indeed, that is precisely the ideal solution I have in mind for
> connecting together NU communities.
>
> --
> Michael Malak
> malak@claygency.com
>
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