Comments on: Building the Suburban Dream

By: Derrick Bostrom

Derrick Bostrom — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:44:37 +0000

Actually, they’re running a light rail straight through the downtown, all the way to the university and beyond. It’s a marvellous sight — the entire area is completely torn up. I suppose a train out to Anthem can’t be far off.

By: dm

dm — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:34:54 +0000

they could widen the freeway to ten lanes and it won’t make a difference; the road will fill up. have they ever heard of trains out there in arizona? ray bradbury calls for monorails in l.a.

By: Derrick Bostrom

Derrick Bostrom — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 18:29:24 +0000

Of course, any holiday is bad when in the freeway vicinity of the Big P. But any more, every Friday night and Monday morning is a holiday! Whee!

Given the ever-ominious nature of our dwindling annual rainfall, perhaps more and more people will die of thirst, thus relieving the pressure on the remaining Anthemite commutors. Or not.

By: jenkins

jenkins — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 18:05:39 +0000

After flyfishing in Sedona/Oak Creek Canyon with my brother in 2004, we headed back to Tucson on I-17 on Thanksgiving Eve. It took us 4 hours bumper to bumper to travel the 100 miles to Phoenix, along with untold thousands heading for Sky Harbor.
As we crawled past Anthem we had plenty of time to speculate on the effects of such farflung suburbia on the inadequate infrastructure of the I-17 corridor.
If the Palo Verde nuclear plant ever melts down Phoenix could make the evacuation of Houston for Katrina look well planned and orderly.

By: Derrick Bostrom

Derrick Bostrom — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 01:58:19 +0000

The I 17 shoots out of out Phoenix, travelling north past Anthem, east of Prescott, Cottonwood, Jerome and Sedona, west of Camp Verde and Lake Montezuma, heading smack into Flastaff.

By: Seth Harrington

Seth Harrington — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:13:45 +0000

Where is the I 17 that Wikipedia mentions?

The Levittown link is insane, LOTS of good info.