• Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOP
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    1 year ago

    Ha, I strongly believe that this sort of extremely-local story is critical for any extremely-local community!

    Also, this damn bridge has got to be a metaphor for just about everything about this city…

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      1 year ago

      In particular the NIMBYism that prevented it from being connected to Harrow back then. That would have changed the navigation of the city quite a lot. Times change, but people don’t.

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          1 year ago

          Part of the original design plan for Arlington was that it would continue across the river with a bridge there as well, creating a north south corridor there.