Comments on: Remembering How the Roads Got Paved http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/08/14/remembering-how-the-roads-got-paved/ Covering San Francisco's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kit http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/08/14/remembering-how-the-roads-got-paved/comment-page-1/#comment-25721 kit Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:33:28 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=25341#comment-25721 Soylatte: No doubt. As a lover of old architecture, it's truly heartbreaking to think about the countless buildings demolished to make way for our nation's superhighways. As a former resident of Sacramento, I remember leafing through microfiche of all the buildings destroyed when the freeway tore through what used to be a much larger old town region. What's there today is a shadow of it's former self. This is a story told over and over again in cities across our nation. And what was it all for? So we could build sprawl at incrementally larger distances from our urban employment centers. The careless ideas of our ancestors, now the religion of our car-centric transportation culture. Soylatte:

No doubt. As a lover of old architecture, it’s truly heartbreaking to think about the countless buildings demolished to make way for our nation’s superhighways. As a former resident of Sacramento, I remember leafing through microfiche of all the buildings destroyed when the freeway tore through what used to be a much larger old town region.

What’s there today is a shadow of it’s former self. This is a story told over and over again in cities across our nation. And what was it all for? So we could build sprawl at incrementally larger distances from our urban employment centers.

The careless ideas of our ancestors, now the religion of our car-centric transportation culture.

]]> By: soylatte http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/08/14/remembering-how-the-roads-got-paved/comment-page-1/#comment-25591 soylatte Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:55:15 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=25341#comment-25591 I think it would be helpful to make the distinction between streets and the highway system. The former had it's quaint beginnings with bicycles, but the development of the latter (much more expensive and destructive) was definitely spurred by cars. It was and is one of the prime ways the government is subsidizing the car industry. I think it would be helpful to make the distinction between streets and the highway system. The former had it’s quaint beginnings with bicycles, but the development of the latter (much more expensive and destructive) was definitely spurred by cars. It was and is one of the prime ways the government is subsidizing the car industry.

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