Hello all: This unexpected bit of commentary showed up at the end of an article in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about construction on the Illinois tollways. It serves as a reminder that the idea of getting commuters out of their cars isn't a radical notion. It's the way things were in a previous time. People commuting by cars is the newer more "innovative" concept.
Al _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .. And the repairs are coming along a vastly changed landscape. "The original plans (for expressways) were done in the 1930s and so the idea that there would be offices in Lake County (Ill.) or far west Cook County (Ill.) just wouldn't have occurred to them," McClendon said. "The idea that there would be suburbanites driving to work rather than taking trains also seemed unlikely. To them, suburbs were things that grew up around commuter rail stops and express highways were to carry cross-country traffic." But times have changed. The interstates are now filled with trucks ferrying freight and cars carrying commuters. And, around Chicago, they're crowded. _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
