I don't know about you, but I am pretty much done with all the construction.
It seems like 50 projects are going on at once.
Now ideally, we would just sit back and enjoy what is here already and stop building more stuff. Don't say all the development is to build more affordable housing or create a dense urban utopian wonderland where people bike everywhere, don't own cars, and walk to get groceries (somehow carrying 7 bags to their house?) The real reason is to make more money.
Of course halting construction will never happen, and we do need to repair roads and things.
So what I propose is this: an annual respite from all construction, for one entire month.
This could be held any month, but how about August. Traffic is already light in August, so it would seem SUPER light.
This means everything, including people fixing up houses, building houses, tearing down houses, fixing roads, widening roads, narrowing roads, making meridians a foot higher, digging up and replanting trees, painting green bicycle lanes.... All of it must stop.....for a month.
But what if there is this important project that needs to get finished?
It can wait. Nothing HAS to get built.
I say we start this summer. It's construction-free August.
