BIKE: Roads Gone Wild

[Roger Baker]

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>
> I eagerly await your plans to connect Leander, Cedar Park, Round Rock, 
> Pflugerville, etc. to central Austin via these wonderful new narrow 
> roads. I'm assuming you're using some kind of unreleased wormhole 
> technology, since of course, all possible routes operating in the 
> existing (boring 3-dimensional) space are already covered with 
> neighborhoods and parking lots and whatnot.
>
> - MD
>

As a supporter of toll roads, and being in denial of the energy crisis, 
I think Mike Dahmus' taste in roads runs toward the simultaneously 
unaffordable and immense. These same qualities are  also currently in 
favor at TxDOT.

But Mike really needs to click here:

http://nytimes.com/2004/12/08/arts/design/08calt.html?hp

This monument to giant roads trumps everything I've yet seen as a 
tribute to semi-finished, lego-block immensity. It is meant to be 
symbolic of the sheer grandiosity of California's highways. Don't miss 
its companion slide show on the front page of today's New York Times.

-- Roger