Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 6/26/2023
We were able to drive from Rhode Island to Point Pleasant, NJ last Saturday in 3 hours 20 minutes, a personal best. (Rolls Royces have a significant design flaw in that the passenger, my wife Maria, can see the speedometer. However, most traffic moves at about 75 on the NJ Turnpike, I95, and the Garden State Parkway.)
It took us 4 hours to return two days ago because, even with the omniscient WAZE, we hit some serious traffic jams.
There are simply too many cars on the road, and there will be too many cars on the road whether they’re powered by batteries, hydrogen, or Doritos. The roads can’t be made wider (the Turnpike has eight lanes at times) and forget building further mass transit in the megalopolis running from Boston to Washington, DC.
I’ve noticed that the Jersey Shore (which has outstanding beaches—Rhode Island thinks it has beaches, but it actually has rocks) was far less crowded this trip. Many beach front homes weren’t yet rented (I know that school is still in session in these crazy times). In Cape Cod, there is a glut of rentals with prices falling because all those people who bought second homes during the pandemic don’t want to visit them now and are trying to rent them. (Traffic to Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and my prized Nantucket has to go across two ancient, pre-Etruscan, two-lane bridges which are falling apart and are apparently God’s way of providing us with a bit of humility.)
Our entire family is going to Italy next year, and we figure it will actually cost less than going to Nantucket!
My parents occasionally could afford the Jersey Shore, but just for a day or two, in a cheap motel, and in an old DeSoto, the manufacturers of which thought that overheating was a sign of affection. And they were on the old roads, where there were still traces of George Washington’s Army.
What’s the solution? Bite the bullet. Prepare to spend a lot of time and a lot of money, comparatively speaking.
This country is hooked on cars, no less than the stylites were fixated on asceticism, no matter what’s powering them. (Note: France is planning on “air taxis” during the coming Olympics. Of course, the French also thought that Jerry Lewis was a comic genius.)
The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern socity. —Raymond Loewy
There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile. —Richard Petty
I wrote an article on a new Porsche for Automobile Magazine. I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I’m more proud of that than anything. —Jerry Seinfeld
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