Back In Print, Baby!
I'm back in the newspaper. On Monday, the Deseret News published this editorial piece by Peter Brooks:
Please don't tell me UDOT is actually considering building the superhighway Mountain View Corridor. Make them stop! I left Southern California and moved to Utah to get away from these polluting, noisy, ugly, environmentally unfriendly superhighways. Wetlands will be destroyed. Homes will be displaced. Property values will decrease and noise levels increase. Who wants to live anywhere near a freeway of this size? There must be better solutions.
Today, they published my response. It's edited quite a bit from what I submitted—like I'm not used to that—but it still gets the point across:
I couldn't help but chuckle at the irony of Peter Brooks' letter (Readers' Forum, Jan. 15): "I left Southern California and moved to Utah to get away from these polluting, noisy, ugly, environmentally unfriendly superhighways," he wrote.
Perhaps he has not considered the reason that UDOT is "actually considering building the superhighway Mountain View Corridor": to handle the increased number of people living along the Wasatch Front. The population explosion we've experienced here over the past few years has been fueled, in large part, by people leaving places like Southern California to get away from the hustle and bustle.
It always amazes me how easily people point out problems without seeing that they are, in fact, part of the problem.
"Better solutions", Mr. Brooks? Here's a solution: Move to South Dakota. I'm pretty sure they're not building any superhighways that threaten wetlands out there.
Please don't tell me UDOT is actually considering building the superhighway Mountain View Corridor. Make them stop! I left Southern California and moved to Utah to get away from these polluting, noisy, ugly, environmentally unfriendly superhighways. Wetlands will be destroyed. Homes will be displaced. Property values will decrease and noise levels increase. Who wants to live anywhere near a freeway of this size? There must be better solutions.
Today, they published my response. It's edited quite a bit from what I submitted—like I'm not used to that—but it still gets the point across:
I couldn't help but chuckle at the irony of Peter Brooks' letter (Readers' Forum, Jan. 15): "I left Southern California and moved to Utah to get away from these polluting, noisy, ugly, environmentally unfriendly superhighways," he wrote.
Perhaps he has not considered the reason that UDOT is "actually considering building the superhighway Mountain View Corridor": to handle the increased number of people living along the Wasatch Front. The population explosion we've experienced here over the past few years has been fueled, in large part, by people leaving places like Southern California to get away from the hustle and bustle.
It always amazes me how easily people point out problems without seeing that they are, in fact, part of the problem.
"Better solutions", Mr. Brooks? Here's a solution: Move to South Dakota. I'm pretty sure they're not building any superhighways that threaten wetlands out there.
posted by Michael at
11:32 AM
2 Comments:
Bravo!
By
Wendy, At
January 18, 2007 1:07 PM
I seriously doubt that the Mountain View Corridor will ever be built.
There is an energy crisis of unprecedented seriousness bearing down on us. We are at or near what will prove to be the all time peak of petroleum production. Afterwards the world's rate of oil production will go nowhere but down.
Actual work on the the Mountain View corridor could not start until mid 2009 at the very soonest. I believe before then, it will become apparent to most people that increasing our vehicle carrying capacity will no longer serve any purpose. We will be desperately trying to adapt to the new energy reality by doing things like cramming ourselves into overloaded transit systems and hastily improvising carpools.
"We should take note that our major oil companies, including Chevron and ExxonMobil, are beginning to state publicly that we may be reaching peak oil." - Orrin Hatch
“A significant number of petroleum geologists have warned that the world could be nearing the peak in oil production." - Bill Clinton
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google_PEAK_OIL, At
January 19, 2007 10:03 AM
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