Comments on: Echo chambers http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/01/echo-chambers/ How can we live without the unknown before us? —Rene Char Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:48:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/01/echo-chambers/#comment-6750 Dave Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:55:41 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/01/04/echo-chambers/#comment-6750 Gina, thanks for the comment. It's no easier to ignore here, if you know what you're looking at. Every year the effects of air pollution, global warming and invasive species become more severe. To say nothing of the noise pollution from Tyrone's own (the original!) stretch of I-99. Gina, thanks for the comment. It’s no easier to ignore here, if you know what you’re looking at. Every year the effects of air pollution, global warming and invasive species become more severe. To say nothing of the noise pollution from Tyrone’s own (the original!) stretch of I-99.

]]> By: Gina Marie http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/01/echo-chambers/#comment-6749 Gina Marie Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:30:58 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/01/04/echo-chambers/#comment-6749 Dave -- just read this post from a link on your flickr photo. I too have mixed feelings about the new highway. I've been driving that stretch for years, since my oldest brother first started at Penn State. (My family resides in Murrysville, a suburb outside Pittsburgh.) It's great that I can shorten the drive to my parents, and I always hated driving through Port Matilda because of your comments above -- it's so depressing. So for the past couple of years I would detour on 550. I loved traveling past all of the farmland. Every time I drive that road I fall in love with Pennsylvania all over again. Besides the environmental impact, I just don't like the new highway for my own selfish reasons. I have no reason now to take 550 when going to visit the rents. Of course, I still *could*, but it's hard to ignore the direct and quick route that the highway now provides. But the drive is boring and lifeless. Just a stretch of concrete. And, like you said, soon to be dead animals. Sometimes I think of you and envy your life tucked away in the forest. For the most part, you can ignore a lot of this commercialism and concrete expansion? But I guess at some point, they'll come knocking on your door too. Dave — just read this post from a link on your flickr photo. I too have mixed feelings about the new highway. I’ve been driving that stretch for years, since my oldest brother first started at Penn State. (My family resides in Murrysville, a suburb outside Pittsburgh.) It’s great that I can shorten the drive to my parents, and I always hated driving through Port Matilda because of your comments above — it’s so depressing. So for the past couple of years I would detour on 550. I loved traveling past all of the farmland. Every time I drive that road I fall in love with Pennsylvania all over again. Besides the environmental impact, I just don’t like the new highway for my own selfish reasons. I have no reason now to take 550 when going to visit the rents. Of course, I still *could*, but it’s hard to ignore the direct and quick route that the highway now provides. But the drive is boring and lifeless. Just a stretch of concrete. And, like you said, soon to be dead animals.

Sometimes I think of you and envy your life tucked away in the forest. For the most part, you can ignore a lot of this commercialism and concrete expansion? But I guess at some point, they’ll come knocking on your door too.

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/01/echo-chambers/#comment-6748 Dave Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:38:55 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/01/04/echo-chambers/#comment-6748 Hi Rose - Something about that stretch of valley has always struck me as depressing: poor farms, sad-looking businesses... the Indians avoided it. The major road connecting Iroquois and Cherokee lands went through the gap at Milesburg and followed the SE flank of Bald Eagle Mountain - the route of the present PA 550 - all the way to the Tyrone gap. That's probably because the headwaters of both Bald Eagle Creeks was impassible rhododendron-choked swampland. 10,000 years ago, it was a glacial lake. Anyway, I'm sorry to hear about your friend. I know someone whose brother and his entire family were killed in an accident near Port Matilda. Thanks for the comment. Hi Rose – Something about that stretch of valley has always struck me as depressing: poor farms, sad-looking businesses… the Indians avoided it. The major road connecting Iroquois and Cherokee lands went through the gap at Milesburg and followed the SE flank of Bald Eagle Mountain – the route of the present PA 550 – all the way to the Tyrone gap. That’s probably because the headwaters of both Bald Eagle Creeks was impassible rhododendron-choked swampland. 10,000 years ago, it was a glacial lake. Anyway, I’m sorry to hear about your friend. I know someone whose brother and his entire family were killed in an accident near Port Matilda.

Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: Rose http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/01/echo-chambers/#comment-6747 Rose Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:52:39 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/01/04/echo-chambers/#comment-6747 I moved out of the Bald Eagle Valley shortly after they carved off the top of the mountain. It really is an eyesore. I grew up traveling the "highway of death" on a daily basis, and a friend of the family has it to thank for her paraplegia. I moved out of the Bald Eagle Valley shortly after they carved off the top of the mountain. It really is an eyesore. I grew up traveling the “highway of death” on a daily basis, and a friend of the family has it to thank for her paraplegia.

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/01/echo-chambers/#comment-6746 Dave Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:39:54 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/01/04/echo-chambers/#comment-6746 Oh yes, I can imagine. Maddening to think of such a beautiful and biologically rich area as yours being treated as a speed bump. Oh yes, I can imagine. Maddening to think of such a beautiful and biologically rich area as yours being treated as a speed bump.

]]> By: marja-leena http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/01/echo-chambers/#comment-6745 marja-leena Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:35:19 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/01/04/echo-chambers/#comment-6745 Yes, sounds sadly familiar. We have a fight here against more freeways to ship containers by truck, arriving from China via our ports, to points east and south, over protected bog, farmland, rivers, etc. etc... Yes, sounds sadly familiar. We have a fight here against more freeways to ship containers by truck, arriving from China via our ports, to points east and south, over protected bog, farmland, rivers, etc. etc…

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