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.