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North Austin bike trail unbuilt two years after getting stimulus grant (why we're tanking)
Austin American-Statesman ^ | August 1, 2011 | Marty Toohey

Posted on 08/09/2011 11:06:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Mrs. Don-o

It’s been an endless money pit, hasn’t it?

Now we’re paying P & I on all the money tossed into the pit.

(((shaking))) my head and fist in disgust.


21 posted on 08/09/2011 1:41:15 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Peet
“We’re the city tree crew and we’re planting trees..."

Good one. I'll be using that.

Many years ago, as a child growing up in Mass, we lived in a town that was notorious for such thinking. If it happened that a road would be repaved everyone knew that within the month the water or gas dept. would come along and dig up their line, leaving the newly paved road with a lumpy, scabrous patch. Happened every time sure as the sun coming up. It never occured to them to coordinate so that the trenching got done before the paving.

22 posted on 08/09/2011 3:16:27 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Where's he getting these ideas? He's not smart enough to be that stupid all by himself.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

A street next to the elementary school my daughter went to is being repaved. They dug it up a week before school opens.


23 posted on 08/09/2011 6:16:24 PM PDT by reg45
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Paine: It never occured to them to coordinate so that the trenching got done before the paving.


*chuckle* I grew up in Mass and you just described every town I lived in.

There are dirt roads in Vermont that are better than any paved secondary road in Mass.


24 posted on 08/10/2011 4:04:12 AM PDT by Peet (Cogito ergo dubito.)
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