Familiar folly
In response to the Oct. 12 letter titled “Good job,” I ask the question: How many people felt the same way when 1-26 was first installed?
Yet in less than 20 years, people felt the pressure of traffic congestion once again, and chose to relieve it by disrupting more communities and impacting the local environment.
Being originally from a city where trees are only in arboretums and the travel to get to even a grocery store requires the use of a highway, I beg you not to let Charleston’s charm die.
A highway expansion might not seem detrimental, it may even be very convenient for the present population, but the long-term consequence of continually “relieving congestion” would be the loss of the charm and culture that attracts so many, including me as a first year out-of-state college student, to the city.
Instead of engaging in temporary fixes, we should encourage the use of the bus system and bicycles to permanently reduce traffic as well as save Charleston.
Maureen M. Martin
College of Charleston Complex
Charleston
letter to the editors
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20111014/ARCHIVES/310149957
Painfully Average 