Most infuriating thing I've seen in a while is in the City of Detroit. For those of you out in the country, Detroit has tens of thousands of vacant houses, boarded up, burned out, etc. Many of the streets have NO occupied homes for a mile or so where there used to be maybe 100 homes on a street on 40 ft lots. What did I see the other day is a paving crew, repaving a street for about a half mile and there are NO houses on the whole street! There is absolutely NO reason for anyone to be driving on that street, other than as a cut-through.
Even sorrier fact: They are also redoing the intersections of these same empty streets to put in handicapped ramps in both directions with rubber mats embedded in the concrete. Those streets will NEVER see a pedestrian again, let alone a handicapped person in a wheelchair. Plus, the demolition crews that tore down the houses also ripped up the sidewalks, so the ramps lead from the curb to about 5' in from the street and then end at the dirt and weeds where a sidewalk used to be. Article in the paper confirmed this was due to a federal lawsuit that some attorney in Ann Arbor filed against Detroit. So they have to spend millions of dollars on putting in ramps to nowhere. Think the article said they are going to redo 10,000+ intersections in the city.
Don't care because it's in Detroit? A lot of the money is FEDERAL tax dollars which even you guys out in Iowa contribute to. I hear a lot of local politicians justify going after "Grant" money because it's FREE MONEY from the Feds. I just ask them where do you think it actually came from? All of our pockets, that's where.
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