Thursday, January 23, 2014
I shouldn't focus entirely on Ponca.....
.... because Spokane has its own version of emptied-out areas, its own version of Total Pointless Residential Destruction. It's called the North-South Corridor. A bypass highway that was desperately needed in the '50s and finally built in the 2000's.
In the '50s, Kaiser Aluminum had a huge processing plant north of town, and its thousands of workers had to get there via city streets and country roads. The EPA Terrorist Army bombed Kaiser down to bedrock in the 90s, so by 2000 there was no reason to build a new highway leading to Kaiser. Therefore, the idiot state govt started ripping out houses and putting down concrete around 2000, with great fanfare. Finally Spokane gets the highway it has so desperately needed! Huzzah! Huzzah!
It would be a perfect O Henry story if it didn't cost so many innocent people so many billions of dollars that could have been used for meaningful purposes.
And now it appears that the idiot State has finally switched from its manic building impulse to a sullen and sensible depression. Good. Leave the fucking monster as a huge pointless fucking monument, a fucking Ozymandias.
Labels: Loughnerian Logic
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