Interstate highway conditions
After traveling from North Idaho to Florida towing our trailer---I have to say the Interstate highway system is horrible! Dwight Eisenhower would be ashamed of the way our states and federal governmen...
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^ I don't get into politics, virtually at all, but it certainly appears, in our state (WA) at least, the biggest voice, which happens to be in and around Seattle, also gets the most consideration.
Which outwardly appears like that should be the case.
But what happens is my Montlake example above. The highest population density in the state gets a new park. The space for that park is now an elevated structure over a freeway because there's no room for the park elsewhere. And why? So the city dwellers, who apparently like being packed in like sardines and walking their shitzerdoodle dogs with their Rona masks on, while stepping over homeless people passed out on the sidewalk, now want a "nature" experience to make them feel like their not in the middle of the cesspool that is called Seattle and that their shitzerdoodle has some grass or mulch to take a c rap on rather than next to the homeless guy where they have to make a conscious decision to not only bag their dog's poop, but the homeless guy's dinner from 2 days ago that the dog just stopped and sniffed which prompted the dog's bowel movement!
My cynicism is largely fueled by a meeting I just got out of, where a couple dozen user groups of that major city were assured through the last 10 years of planning that they would receive something we are not under contract to provide and the public sector "owner" whom we are contracted with is burying their head in the sand and deflecting to us, over a similar, but smaller scale issue to the above one.
Which outwardly appears like that should be the case.
But what happens is my Montlake example above. The highest population density in the state gets a new park. The space for that park is now an elevated structure over a freeway because there's no room for the park elsewhere. And why? So the city dwellers, who apparently like being packed in like sardines and walking their shitzerdoodle dogs with their Rona masks on, while stepping over homeless people passed out on the sidewalk, now want a "nature" experience to make them feel like their not in the middle of the cesspool that is called Seattle and that their shitzerdoodle has some grass or mulch to take a c rap on rather than next to the homeless guy where they have to make a conscious decision to not only bag their dog's poop, but the homeless guy's dinner from 2 days ago that the dog just stopped and sniffed which prompted the dog's bowel movement!
My cynicism is largely fueled by a meeting I just got out of, where a couple dozen user groups of that major city were assured through the last 10 years of planning that they would receive something we are not under contract to provide and the public sector "owner" whom we are contracted with is burying their head in the sand and deflecting to us, over a similar, but smaller scale issue to the above one.
