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Old 07-13-2011, 03:32 PM
 
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Wow. There's no need to be rude about it. First you accused me of not having an imagination and now I'm very idiosyncratic. You didn't change my POV, so you attack me. Nice. I overlooked the first insult but enough already. Golly gee, excuse me for liking your city and finding it attractive. I still deserve basic respect even if you disagree with me.
I apologize, I did not intend those to be personally insulting statements. My point is just that although individual tastes may well vary, there is pretty overwhelming evidence that most people prefer not to be around elevated or open-pit highways, and thus the City should plan accordingly. It is of course fine if you would personally prefer the highways to stay in plain view.

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Using this logic, you could also claim that the palm trees in the Embarcadero are eyesores because you never see people in Pittsburgh saying, "This is OK, but it would look so much nicer if we had palm trees."
OK, we don't need to go to San Francisco to make the same point. At any particular point in time if you compare the North Shore Riverfront Park (with no highway) to the riverfront areas along Downtown itself, you will find lots more people in the North Shore Riverfront Park. And in fact if you look just at the Downtown riverfront areas, you will typically find more people up along the boulevards than down along the highways.

So I think all this is pretty indicative of the fact that most people prefer not to be around highways. Again, that is important for planning purposes, but it doesn't mean someone who does enjoy being around highways is doing something wrong.
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Old 07-13-2011, 03:34 PM
 
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I had just always assumed the Emarcadero looked pretty much as it does today. I can't imagine San Fran cut off from the water by an elevated highway.
It was really a crazy era (that built all those city-center highways).

Hopefully some day they will say the same thing about Pittsburgh (that they couldn't imagine Downtown being entirely surrounded by highways).
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Old 07-13-2011, 03:36 PM
 
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Just curious if anyone else would miss that giant trestle if it came crashing down tomorrow?
I would. They are one of my favorite sites along that drive (aside, of course, from the Downtown view as you exit the tunnel).
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Old 07-14-2011, 06:27 AM
 
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Wow. There's no need to be rude about it. First you accused me of not having an imagination and now I'm very idiosyncratic. You didn't change my POV, so you attack me. Nice. I overlooked the first insult but enough already. Golly gee, excuse me for liking your city and finding it attractive. I still deserve basic respect even if you disagree with me.

Well kiddies, I've reached the point of being offended and annoyed so I guess it's time to say adios before I say something I regret. See you guys on another thread.
Last time I checked, calling someone idiosyncratic is not an insult. Especially if it's true, considering I can count on one hand how many people I have ever heard liking elevated highway ramps. Lighten the heck up already. That's why this board is becoming trash, everyone gets offended so freaking easily.
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Old 07-14-2011, 06:35 AM
 
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Last time I checked, calling someone idiosyncratic is not an insult.
If anything, that would usually be a compliment coming from me.
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Old 07-14-2011, 06:39 AM
 
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How about the railroad trestles, both the big one at Carnegie and the two before the tunnels on the Parkway West? I can see how some people would think they're an eyesore, having not been painted for God knows how long, and now the Norfolk and Western Sign is missing a panel on the outbound side. I personally love them, and their current state makes me imagine the industrial era they were built to serve. Just curious if anyone else would miss that giant trestle if it came crashing down tomorrow?

Haha, yeah I like it. It makes me feel like I'm driving through a giant model train display.
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Old 07-14-2011, 07:54 AM
 
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Last time I checked, calling someone idiosyncratic is not an insult. Especially if it's true, considering I can count on one hand how many people I have ever heard liking elevated highway ramps. Lighten the heck up already. That's why this board is becoming trash, everyone gets offended so freaking easily.
Here's the deal. City-data is very strong in their policy that we are to discuss ideas but NOT each other. When I first heard this policy I thought the same sort of thing about "People should just lighten up." Now, after having been here a few years, I've really come to appreciate city-data's wisdom.

Once you cross the line into personal comments, even the mild ones, it stops being a fun thread and lightweight insults quickly lead to downright caustic remarks. I've learned the hard way that when it comes to personal comments about me, it pays to have a zero tolerance policy. Was it a mild insult? Sure, and like I said, I'll let one mild insult pass--it's when the personal comments about me start to accumulate (instead of comments about the idea we're discussing) that I feel we're heading down a slippery slope and it's time to speak up. Otherwise it becomes increasingly toxic and you have to hit the report button.

Anyway, enough about this. Let's get back to a fun thread where we were all sharing different ideas of what we considered eyesores. So what if some people have different ideas of what is and is not an eyesore? It's not like anything's going to be torn down as a result of this thread so I think we can all relax and be ok with different POVs.

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Old 07-14-2011, 07:57 AM
 
Location: somewhere near Pittsburgh, PA
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Haha, yeah I like it. It makes me feel like I'm driving through a giant model train display.
I love the trestles too. They have tons of character and it makes me feel like I'm going back in time when I drive under them. I guess I have some fascination with old railroad systems, I enjoy biking through the old tunnels on the Montour trail and just try to imagine what it was like back when the railroad was in use.
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Old 07-14-2011, 08:14 AM
 
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Haha, yeah I like it. It makes me feel like I'm driving through a giant model train display.
That's how Pittsburgh and a few other nearby cities make me feel. I'm a model train enthusiast and love that feeling. BTW, I watched "Unstoppable" with a group of fellow model train builders and we had such a fun take on that movie. The cities of PA, WV, and Ohio are just so cool if you look at life from the eye of a model train enthusiast!
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Old 07-14-2011, 08:26 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh area
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That's how Pittsburgh and a few other nearby cities make me feel. I'm a model train enthusiast and love that feeling. BTW, I watched "Unstoppable" with a group of fellow model train builders and we had such a fun take on that movie. The cities of PA, WV, and Ohio are just so cool if you look at life from the eye of a model train enthusiast!
Just watched Unstoppable myself a few weeks ago. If you've never looked up the real story that "inspired" this movie, you might be surprised at how much of it essentially really happened, in Ohio, in 2001. CSX 8888 incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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