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Originally Posted by BrownTown
I couldn't make it through the whole article because the author is such an entitled cry baby it's impossible to take him seriously.
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The snark comes from his many years writing a gay advice to the love-lorn column (widely read when same-sex marriage was just a vision) and he's done a lot for gays and lesbians, chief among them starting the "It Gets better" effort to prevent gay teen suicide. For years he started his journalistic efforts with a standard phrase, "Hey, faggot!", meant to reclaim the well-known epithet. He's maturing now though.
As for his point, I am pretty proud to hail from one major city that halted the freeway expansion mid-expansion when it was happening in the 1950s and 1960s and has now torn down much of what managed to get put up. We still have one freeway the manages to make it all the way throught the city: I-80/US101 which comes up the peninsula from the airport and the suburbs beyond and crosses the Bay Bridge to Oakland.
But we never got this:
1948 Freeway Plan
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/01...reeway-revolt/
and pretty much all we have now is this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=exis...4D57loIuLO91M: