Paramount Theatre
A Currently Unpalatable Social Arrangement
RECEIVED Mon., June 24, 2019
Dear Editor,
I enjoyed the fine I-35 article by Mike Clark-Madison ["Long Hard Road," News, June 21]. All of these enormous and often grandiose traffic engineering projects seem to be conceived and discussed as though our entire society were in the fell clutch of an inevitable traffic increase of the nature of Moore's Law. It is worth thinking about where all those folks are going. For example, to work in drugstores on diagonal corners; auto parts stores next door to one another; indistinguishable bank branches three to a block. In short, places where people, out of an imposed economic necessity, do work made meaningless by its redundancy. Of course actually decreasing traffic would require a currently unpalatable social arrangement … and none dare speak its name. Better to spend the billions.
I enjoyed the fine I-35 article by Mike Clark-Madison ["Long Hard Road," News, June 21]. All of these enormous and often grandiose traffic engineering projects seem to be conceived and discussed as though our entire society were in the fell clutch of an inevitable traffic increase of the nature of Moore's Law. It is worth thinking about where all those folks are going. For example, to work in drugstores on diagonal corners; auto parts stores next door to one another; indistinguishable bank branches three to a block. In short, places where people, out of an imposed economic necessity, do work made meaningless by its redundancy. Of course actually decreasing traffic would require a currently unpalatable social arrangement … and none dare speak its name. Better to spend the billions.
Henry Mecredy