Sadly destroying poor and minority neighborhoods to build highways is all too common
Hereās Boston
It mightāve been the most generic insult possible.
Like, Iām 100% certain the first mf driving a model-t had some horse and buggy riders tell him he was overcompensating.
The problem isnāt āoh no poor tateā and it isnāt even āoh no poor dudes who actually have small penisesā, the problem is perpetuating a sense of inadequacy as a resting state of the human condition. Tateās penis is probably fine, and thatās the problem!
That said, I hope Putinās penis is small, like super tiny, and he was taunted mercilessly for it, cuz God in heaven I want these nukes to fly.
I got a queasy feeling in my stomach from watching that.
Two questions:
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People horny for this insult are overcompensating. Little rock solid three inch boners. Yes I know this isnāt a question.
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So Greta is fucking now or what?
You say we shouldnāt have torn down black neighborhoods to make room for freeways 60 years ago. Yet you support fixing existing bridges. Strange. I am very smart.
Iām not anti-freeway in general, but a lot of freeways suck. I donāt think it should ever permissible to seize a neighborhood through eminent domain to build a freeway. If Beverly Hills wouldnāt allow it, why is it ok to do to Compton?
San Francisco did the right thing and mostly didnāt allow freeways through the city. Then they didnāt rebuild the Embarcadero freeway or the Fell St. off-ramp (or on-ramp, I forget) after the earthquake, and itās not like either of those held them back economically at all.
People made the same arguments when they converted shopping areas into walk streets in Europe. In every city after city - it will kill the local economy. And then it pretty much did the opposite.
But an existing bridge seems to be a little different animal.
Almost all city neighborhoods in the 50s were poor. Pre gentrification, most of the rich people commuted from the suburbs by rail. The White Flight phenomenon mostly hadnāt happened yet.
The city Iām most familiar with, Chicago:
Our big interchange was built in Little Italy. Of the 4 highways leading from downtown, 2 were built in white working class areas (Kennedy, Eisenhower), one was built in an industrial corridor (Stevenson) and one was built on the border of black and white, (Dan Ryan). There were always rumors the Dan Ryan was positioned to barricade the Bronzeville neighborhood and that could be true.
While Iām sure I havenāt gained points dying on this hill, back then highways were considered good things that a community wants to have. I still think that.
The Big Dig has pretty much scared anyone else from trying a large scale traffic restructuring.
We need a total and complete shutdown of new highway construction until our countryās representatives can figure out what is going on.
Storrow Drive is kind of stupid, but isnāt the entire Back Bay built on landfill?
the worst one is the popup that says youāre exceeding the speed limit at 75mph. driving 72 mph and speed up? BEEP driving 76mph and slow down? BEEP
Yes, Iām sure the black people and immigrants whose houses and apartment buildings were seized with basically no offer of compensation or help with relocation considered the highways a good thing.
You do understand that these people were basically voiceless, and like most black viewpoints from that time, their stories were never truthfully told, right?
Storrow Dr. is an endless source of entertainment and the only reason to hate it is if you rent moving trucks to students.
looks like a giant, unfinished putt putt course
I dont get that one. Maybe theres a way to switch it off?
Apparently all other Idaho schools are taking all u of i students who want to transfer and are accepting their full transcripts. So I could see them trying to get students in with a little extra effort.
Good news is they caught at least one of the killers, allegedly. (I donāt believe there are more than one, but I donāt know that there was only one. Kind of a tough crime for one person physically but again no idea.)