{"id":219606430,"date":"2011-12-17T17:47:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=219606430"},"modified":"2011-12-17T17:47:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T17:47:10","slug":"turning-rubbish-heaps-into-car-sewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=219606430","title":{"rendered":"Turning rubbish heaps into car sewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This original (and hilarious, sad) report from 1961 on David Troy&#8217;s  website as a PDF \u2014 warning, it&#8217;s 238MB, so it may take a few minutes to load. MUST READ. <a href=\"https:\/\/davetroy.com\/docs\/jfp-gbc1961.pdf\">https:\/\/davetroy.com\/docs\/jfp-gbc1961.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u200e&#8221;Time is running out. Truly this is a time of decision. Shall the Jones Falls Valley continue to be a rubbish heap \u2014 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?<\/p>\n<p>Or will the Valley become, by one master stroke, a great Valley Parkway, making travel on it \u2014 by expressway, by scenic road, by commuter train, on foot \u2014 a pleasure and relief for the daily traveler?<\/p>\n<p>To delay our decision will mean that the opportunity will be lost forever. Jones Falls Valley must be saved!&#8221; &#8211; Greater Baltimore Committee, 1961<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>[B&#8217; Spokes: It is absolutely amazing how this vision has failed. The car has sold us so many false visions of the future.]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash4\/394521_10150473280443076_513493075_8610434_1930228651_n.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This original (and hilarious, sad) report from 1961 on David Troy&#8217;s website as a PDF \u2014 warning, it&#8217;s 238MB, so it may take a few minutes to load. MUST READ. https:\/\/davetroy.com\/docs\/jfp-gbc1961.pdf \u200e&#8221;Time is running out. Truly this is a time of decision. Shall the Jones Falls Valley continue to be a rubbish heap \u2014 an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=219606430\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turning rubbish heaps into car sewers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219606430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-baltimore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219606430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219606430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219606430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219606430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219606430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219606430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}