To the
Editor:
The only people the proposed Reider Road interchange development
on Interstate 64 in St. Clair County serves are road builders,
developers and realtors.
Diamonds, like London, Amsterdam and San Francisco are lovely
because of a concentration of resources in a central area--pressure
concentrates resources and design.
Any twit can build out into the desert for ever. Just visit San
Jose, New Jersey, Las Vegas, to name a few of many. They are sad
places to live. They are not places really, simply a life style
devoted to spending time burning oil and sitting in automobiles.
The average commute in Atlanta is pushing over an hour and a half
a day. We are feeding a machine and it is getting bigger than we
are. We are junkies and the oil companies and car manufacturers
are the pushers.
It can stop if we begin at the grass roots level, think and take
action.
Thomas Joseph
O'Fallon