babyboom

The Green Grandma feels challenged to consider what has been lost: cheap gas, green meadows, great places, and her innocence. She experiments with mass transit in a community not exactly noted for its rapid transit - in a metropolitan region tied with Los Angeles for sprawl and highway gridlock, she takes the bus and gives it mixed reviews.

The I35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis has people all over the country talking about bridges, roadways, infrastructure needs, and political culprits on all sides of the legislative aisle. The Green Grandma complains that we should ALSO be talking about the things bridges go over and the things they carry: the Mississippi River is at hazard during any rebuilding of the interstate bridges crossing it, the posterity of America needs consideration in our on-going investments.

http://livegreenlivesmart.org/blogs/green_grandma/archive/2007/08/21/a-hundred-year-bridge.aspx