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Comments on “The Rough Road” by Katherine Shaver in the July 18 issue MaryRuth Reis, Silver Spring: Engineer Melinda Peters is indeed hard-working and an out-of the-box thinker. Too bad she has chosen to hitch her wagon to such a dim star. The Intercounty Connector is a supreme example of in-the-box thinking — the idea that building yet more roads will solve the area’s traffic problems. I am old enough to remember when
the Beltway was built; surely it would ease rush-hour congestion. New lanes have been continually added over the years, and, surprise, we have even worse congestion and air pollution. The same idea led to the building of Route 270 and the later adding of more and more lanes to solve the same commuting problems. Have you ever seen that highway during rush-hour traffic? Car after car snaking along for miles,
spewing carbon dioxide into the air. I imagine that I will live long
enough to see the same conditions with the Intercounty Connector — being a toll road will not keep it from becoming jammed with cars. For this, 40 families were displaced and wetlands and hundreds of trees were destroyed? How sad.
Comments on “Unseen Washington” in the July 25 issue John Warman, Rockville: Steve Hendrix’s writing was as elegant as David Deal’s photographs, and for some of the same reasons: simplicity, functionality and insight. His words and Deal’s photos
brought back many memories for me. I worked for the District back in
the 1960s. My job was to set pay for the people who worked for the District government, particularly in the old
Department of Sanitary Engineering, now renamed many times, I’m sure. It was a job that, theoretically, could have been done sitting in the office, but I asked to see what people were really doing, so I was taken on many tours of shops and facilities. That is how I came to see the inside
of the Fort Reno water tower, the Blue Plains Sewage Treatment Plant and the O Street Pumping Station, along with many other “unseen” sights of the city. The water tower and pumping station are as beautiful on the outside as any buildings in the city. On the inside, they have that beauty of line, proportion and functionality that Deal captured so well. Thanks for the fine work.
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