Posted on 03/01/2011 2:32:03 PM PST by maine yankee
At the directive of Gov. Paul LePage and the Commissioner of the Maine Dept. of Transportation all work on Gateway 1 will cease indefinitely, effective immediately.
The suspension of work on the proposed interlocal coalition was announced in a letter sent to participating towns and individuals on March 1 from David Bernhardt, the Commissioner of the DOT.
(Excerpt) Read more at lincolncountynewsonline.com ...
Absolutely wonderful! Gateway 1 is (was) an attempt to slip a fast one on the citizens of the midcoast towns.
I really didn’t think that this had gotten LePage’s attention yet but I guess it did.
I read the article but I’m still not sure what was going on. I saw the part about “preserving the rural nature” etc.
I spent a week in October visiting the wonderful mid-coast and much of Highway 1 in Maine and congratulate the local conservatives in Maine in keeping their coastal highway area from being Californicated by master planners.
The leftists have to be constantly challenged because these boondoggles they create become their nesting places for funding incomes, creating more government planners living off our tax dollars and creating a constantly invasive government at all levels. They all need to go to work at real jobs and butt out of limited government.
Concentrate the population and business in the towns (depopulate the surrounding areas); Rt. 1 becomes purely a rural 2 lane road, co-locate housing with businesses so people don’t have to commute, rail service - in other words the whole sustainable communities/Agenda 21 thing.
They obfuscate what the true mission is, as the first step is to get overall approval authority and then begin to develop full control. Pretty soon you have PLAs, master plans, adjacent planned zoning with related special approval boards and pretty soon, nothing is built, changed or improved without the Annointed having their control.
Thanks.
You know, its planning boards that prevent businesses from co-locating with residences to begin with. So now a new planning board wants to promote what the last planning board wanted to stop.
The problem starts from people thinking that someone other than the property owner has rights over the use of the property. Once you cross that barrier there is no clear barrier.
Gov. LePage can be coarse and speaks before he thinks {in my opinion} but he certainly has some good ideas-no free social services for illegals, voter I D, tax incentives for small business etc. Hope he stands firm. Recently a local station interviewed people who came to Maine in the middle of the winter strictly for our liberal social services.
I have some peripheral involvement in a supposedly "sustainable" project, and am watching the whole planning process as a slightly interested bystander. The whole thing is amusing to watch if you don't have to take it seriously. The project is only being built because a law mandates it, the law itself being based on a fallacy (global warming).
The people opposing it are aging pony-tailed hippies. They quite rightly oppose it, but because they all supposedly support "sustainable" projects like this one, and they all supposedly believe in global warming, they struggle to find reasons.
So its one phony argument after another rebutted by phony counter arguments. Supposedly endangered critters (who proliferate like rats), arguments about global warming, arguments about ruining the environment rebutted by arguments about saving the environment, arguments about carbon footprints, hippies against unions, and all of them claiming to believe in "sustainability".
At bottom, the problem starts with a phony law requiring something that economics wouldn't otherwise support, and also at bottom, the idea that someone other than the property owner has the right to decide what the property will be used for.
For personal reasons I want the project to go forward, but I avoid all the public meetings. The impassioned pleas for and against, the dishonesty rebutted by dishonesty, all of it gives me the hives.
It’s been nearly 40 years since I was involved in one of these sorts of internecine warfare events on the left. From your evocative description, nothing at all has changed except that back then, everyone on both sides was under 45.
Yes, it causes hives and also causes stomach ulcers. It also never works.
The article is vague. On purpose, no doubt.
If you had never heard of Agenda 21, you’d not connect the two.
For more info, do a Google search on: gateway 1 agenda21
So Maine is switching over to Macs?
Thanks. Until this thread, I was unaware of Agenda 21, although I see its effects increasingly on all sides.
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Posted Dec. 12, 2010, at 6:17 p.m.
Conspiracy theories thrive on the Web like mosquitoes in a swamp. But the claim that the state Department of Transportation’s Gateway 1 project is linked to a United Nations initiative doesn’t even deserve to have the word theory associated with it. Mainstream news organizations have wisely downplayed the story, but it bears scrutiny, especially when the state initiative in question is critical to Maine’s future.
The claims that Gateway 1 is the opening salvo in the U.N.’s Agenda 21 initiative have been reported by the MaineWebNews site, which seems to be operated by Jarrod LeBlanc. In a 14-minute video, Mr. LeBlanc suggests how Gateway 1 will help a one-world government move people out of their homes in the midcoast U.S. Route 1 corridor and resettle them in high-density population pockets.
What is troubling about this report is that the conspiracy theorists have been moved to accuse members of a volunteer citizen committee of being dupes. Though it is their right to make such accusations, in doing so they have breached the line between reason and fantasy.
Gateway 1 was launched by DOT several years ago as a comprehensive planning effort for and by the towns from Brunswick to Prospect, through which U.S. Route 1 passes. In participating towns, the local governing board agreed to endorse the planning effort and local elected officials selected the members of the steering committee.
The need for regional land-use planning on the Route 1 corridor is obvious to anyone living or working in the midcoast.
So Maine is switching over to Macs?
The commadore 64’s are finally wearing out.
I’m involved in large construction projects. Many of them LEED certified. I built some of the early nationally prominent Green building projects about twenty years ago. You can imagine the fun I had with the pioneer leaders in that field.
A number of them I developed respect for but many were Loons. Major money and preference were granted by Owners and these design specialists were never happy unless every iota of their PipeDream was adhered to And given worship as integral and Earth saving.
In the recent past, they ran an article about a Tea Party protest here and referred to the Tea Partiers throughout the entire article as "Tea Baggers."
When some readers (including me) contacted the paper about this, they subsequently posted a weak sort-of apology at the top of the article, the thrust of which was that apparently some people found the term offensive.
It's basically Pravda on the Penobscot.
The building where I worked has turned green. Well literally it turned from brushed aluminum color to brushed aluninum with ugly black stains from the new caulk. They screwed all the windows shut (green means that fresh air is verboten). There was no heat before 6, although through some complaints that got partly fixed. We’ll see what happens with A/C in the summer.
Some years ago my son and his fiance’ booked for their wedding a “100% green” building in Boston (she was an econut). It is an all-glass building with no air conditioning, just some ceiling fans. The wedding was in July. There we all were in suits and dresses and the internal temperature was 89 degrees (F). As the day wore on it just got hotter. We were drowning in our own sweat. Some, no longer able to take it, found some shade outdoors and took off thier jackets and ties and opened their shirts. Pure misery. Because one person wanted to be politically correct. That, in a nutshell, is the Left: utterly selfish.
The leftist social engineers are attempting to build a “Gateway” terminal in my county. This project is a planned shipping port that is part of the BNSF plans to expand shipping to Asia.
It is being touted as a “jobs” source, but as a bulk cargo terminal, it would create about 60 jobs, 89 max. and the cargo that they are claiming to carry would be coal. That is extremely doubtful because there are two other terminals in the works, south of here. They are claiming that there will be no container shipping and no trucks bringing in freight, container or otherwise. The problem is that they have told others that after they get the terminal built, that will all change. We don’t have the roads to support that kind of truck traffic and they know the people would not support the truck traffic clogging the roads and highways.
BNSF tried another Gateway project in California that failed because of opposition to the truck traffic.
Did your Gateway project include rail? Do you have any links to information that links Gateways to Agenda 21 and Wildlands corridors?
Thanks, I need all the help that I can get.
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