“Not everyone was so enamored of the [Interstate highway] system’s unrelenting predictability. Critics had decried the sterile nature of high-speed roads since long before limited-access became a reality…. “Phillips Russell of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill Weekly wrote in 1930 that ‘as fast as improvements are perfected, highways constantly tend to become dull and uninteresting to […]
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Phillips Russell, advocate of roads less robotically traveled
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Literature, Tar Heelia, tagged big roads, bring on the bear, chapel hill weekly, earl swift, interstate highways, phillips russell, unc english dept, unc journalism dept on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »