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Opinion: Columnist wrong about Merritt Parkway, 'a great public space' worth preserving
Wes Haynes
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Re: “People vs. highways an easy choice on affordable housing,” March 14:
Hugh Bailey’s recent opinion piece “People vs. highways” gets a handful of points right.
We fully agree that the Merritt Parkway is scenic, even pastoral and certainly historic. The 37.5 mile road is without peer in the United States — listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its unique bridges and carefully designed landscape, and designated by the U.S. Department of Transportation as a National Scenic Byway. But the core of his argument, that the Merritt Parkway Conservancy’s efforts to preserve this heritage is a binary choice between people and highways, is way off the mark.