My college classmate wrote: "I continue at Parsons Brinckerhoff in DC - working principally on federal transportation policy - right now on the future of the Interstate Highway System over the next 50 years."

and I responded: "The Interstate Highway System, along with those who make decisions about it, need some serious help. One of the new Knoxville mayor's first decisions in office was to approve an I-40 widening to ten drive lanes as the highway slashes through Downtown Knoxville and some of its oldest neighborhoods.

to which my classmate responded: "Unbelievable. No one does this much more in the real world."