BIKE: Roads Gone Wild

[Mike Dahmus]

Roger Baker wrote:

>>>
>>
>> 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.

Listen, you insufferable jackass:

I "support" toll roads in the sense that I think building them is better 
than building the same roads as free roads. I'd rather have "no roads", 
but that's not an option, unless you're a lunatic who has no conception 
of the real political world at all.

I'm "in denial" of the energy crisis in the sense that I bought a 
friggin' Prius and have spent a ton of money on energy efficiency. I'd 
rather do that then run around saying that the oil peak is coming "next 
year" for five years and counting. You're so out-there that you're 
actually HURTING your cause - the association of "oil peak" with your 
lunatic ravings is actually going to make it HARDER, not EASIER, for the 
people at CAMPO to start making baby steps away from the path to 
destruction.

And furthermore, the record is pretty goddamn clear: I don't talk about 
you unless you talk about me. So why don't you take your crackpot lunacy 
somewhere else, OK?

- MD