Comments on: PBS Zombie Highway Story Online

By: Sansou

Sansou — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:23:13 +0000

“There’s plenty of land and water to go around.”
Maybe you’ve never seen any of the articles dealing with water shortages around the world. Here’s just one: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2002/2002-08-28-06.asp

It’s not just enviros who are saying this. I’m not even convinced of global warming, but I DO know that water can’t filter through parking lots or rooftops. Therefore, even though Alabama has a gracious plenty of waterways, we’re paving over the surrounding land that would capture and filter rainwater to replenish the streams. Instead, rain is going down storm drains.

So, yeah, we’ve “plenty” of waterways, but not as much undeveloped land as we used to which used to “recharge” our rivers and lakes and bayous.

By: ttownfeen

ttownfeen — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:10:58 +0000

Oh please. There’s plenty of land and water to go around.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:22:51 +0000

Yeah, who cares about air and water quality or the people who will lose family homes?

By: ttownfeen

ttownfeen — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:07:13 +0000

Technically, the story you linked described the northern loop as the completion of the loop started by 459. It’s all a matter of semantics. All the other stuff is just standard environmentalist huffing and puffing.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:22:24 +0000

Really? The Birmingham News described it just last week as the completion of the 459 loop. If you're interested in why the route is problematic, watch the linked story (it's less than 10 minutes) and read here and here.

By: ttownfeen

ttownfeen — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:05:28 +0000

It’s not a completion of 459 (it will have a new route number, I think 422), but I don’t see why that’s a problem. It’s supposed to be a bypass around the north side of Birmingham so the traffic to and from interstate 22 and 65N don’t have to enter the metro area.