Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018 | 2 a.m.
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I am flabbergasted that Robert Lang — in his Aug. 19 column “Interstate 11 in Nevada: Where do we go next?” — is proposing to build an interstate through the most remote and unpopulated portion of the contiguous states. There’s no “there” there, and I hope there never will be.
Should Highway 95 be improved for freight hauling? Probably. But to destroy the last true wilderness in the American West for a noisy highway that will exacerbate the drought afflicting the Southwest is not smart.
Has Lang ever driven north from Winemucca to eastern Oregon? There is nothing there. It’s even more empty for the 300 hundred miles to Burns, Ore., than it is from Las Vegas to Fallon.
Of course, Burns is a popular commuter destination for certain people from Bunkerville. Maybe that’s the real reason for the road: a freeway for personal armored personnel carriers.
