This original (and hilarious, sad) report from 1961 on David Troy’s website as a PDF — warning, it’s 238MB, so it may take a few minutes to load. MUST READ. https://davetroy.com/docs/jfp-gbc1961.pdf
”Time is running out. Truly this is a time of decision. Shall the Jones Falls Valley continue to be a rubbish heap — an object of catch-as-catch-can speculation and abuse? Will we travel on the Jones Falls Expressway, past derelict factories with bricked-up windows, through a treeless landscape with billboards glaring at us from every conceivable angle?
Or will the Valley become, by one master stroke, a great Valley Parkway, making travel on it — by expressway, by scenic road, by commuter train, on foot — a pleasure and relief for the daily traveler?
To delay our decision will mean that the opportunity will be lost forever. Jones Falls Valley must be saved!” – Greater Baltimore Committee, 1961
[B’ Spokes: It is absolutely amazing how this vision has failed. The car has sold us so many false visions of the future.]
