General Road and Highway Discussion

[ijmorlan]

Well said. As to the interchanges, if it were up to me I would do only the minimal cutting/pruning to keep plant growth from being a hazard to the highway. This would soon enough result in grasses (not just the kind on our lawns), bushes, and even trees growing up, although any trees near the roads would presumably be maintained as fairly small.

I'd endorse that. Why are we not doing that?

One exception is that ragweed does need to be removed.

I don’t know. But in other possibly related news, I distinctly remember the University of Waterloo making a big deal some years ago — probably around 20 by now — about stopping grass mowing in some areas. As a result many areas grew up into brush over several years. In the last few years, I’ve noticed that, with no fanfare, they’ve started mowing again. Completely incomprehensible to me. Sometimes you save money by simply stopping doing stuff that isn’t actually useful.