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ALSO BY TED CONOVER
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Rolling Nowhere:Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes
TO JAY LEIBOLD
I began to see how the road altered not only the way people travelled, but how they perceived the world.
—J. B. Jackson,The Necessity for Ruins
CONTENTS
Introduction
One: Forest Primeval to Park Avenue
Road or Not a Road?
Two: Slipping from Shangri-La
Road Ecology
Three: The Road Is Very Unfair
Double-Edged Roads
Four: A War You Can Commute To
Speed Up!
Five: Capitalist Roaders
Growing Broadway
Six: Drive Soft—Life No Get Duplicate
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
INTRODUCTION
He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep and every path was its tributary. “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no telling where you might be swept off to.”
—Frodo Baggins of his uncle, Bilbo,in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring(The Lord of the Rings, Book One)
EVERY ROAD IS A STORY OF STRIVING: for profit, for victory in battle, for discovery and adventure, for survival and growth, or simply for livability. Each path reflects our desire to move and connect. Anyone who has benefited from a better road—a shorter route, a smoother and safer drive—can testify to the importance of good roads. But when humans strive, we also err, and it is hard to build without destroying. Robert Moses, the controversial creator of highways around New York City in the middle of the twentieth century, wiped out numerous neighborhoods with his projects, turning vibrant communities (notably the South Bronx) into wastelands that have yet to recover. Of his actions he famously said, “In order to make an omelet, you’ve got to break a few eggs.” In a related way, the same roads that carry medicine also hasten the spread of deadly disease; the same roads that bring outside connection and knowledge to people starving for them sometimes spell the end of indigenous cultures; the same roads that help develop the human economy open the way for destruction of the non-human environment; the same roads that carry cars symbolizing personal freedom are the setting for the deaths of more people than die in wars, and of untold numbers of animals; and the same roads that introduce us to friends also provide access to enemies.
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