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A Road And A Bridge

(3) But that's another story. It merely goes to show that
we've apparently needed that bridge and road for a long time
already.

(4) Why do we need that new route to Birdwood, there
being presently an unpaved access road into the property from
US 250? We need it because the students in the residential
colleges out there will need quick access to Alderman Library,
to the science labs, and to classes on the Grounds. And
because US 250 is a crowded road, especially as it becomes Ivy
Road near the Grounds. And because we don't want students
out there to feel a sense of isolation from the rest of the
University.

(5) These are the reasons being given, and I suspect a few
others could be hazarded. Birdwood will need water, power,
and heat, perhaps most economically provided from sources
that serve the Grounds. It would be esthetically pleasing to
incorporate necessary utilities in the design of a road and
bridge, besides probably saving construction money by doing
it all at once. This is a reason that makes considerable sense;
the others, I think, betray some lapses of logic and failure of
imagination.