BIKE: Roads Gone Wild

[Jeb Boyt]

Ah yes, a distinctive building is so much better than "the notion that to 
save our urban centers, we must transform them into ersatz versions of 
small-town America with themed pedestrian environments. "  After all, look 
what LA has acheived with its other distinctive new building:  
http://monkeymuse.blogspot.com/2004/11/looks-great-but-can-it-fry-egg-frank.html

Jeb



----Original Message Follows----
From: Roger Baker <rcbaker>
To: Austin Bikes <forum>
Subject: Re: BIKE: Roads Gone Wild
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 23:17:58 -0600

>>
>
>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


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