"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
3 August 2007Not what you'd call a passing gradeOne of the AP pieces on the I-35W collapse in Minneapolis notes that on a scale of 1 to 100 for structural stability, the failed bridge scored a 50. The Oklahoman reports that Oklahoma City's Crosstown Expressway rates a 49, though the state does not consider it unsafe. (The bridge was closed once, in 1989, after a crack in a support beam was discovered.) If only, if only we'd had a chance in the past few years to force the legislature to address our crumbling roads and bridges by raising and allocating the money directly via a vote of the people, maybe we'd have some of them fixed by now. Oh, wait! We did have such an opportunity. You opposed it. Posted by: Matt at 3:46 PM on 3 August 2007As did 87 percent of the voters. Feel free to complain to them. Posted by: CGHill at 5:06 PM on 3 August 2007I am. Starting with you. :-) Posted by: Matt at 9:01 PM on 3 August 2007
Posted by: CGHill at 9:08 AM on 4 August 2007
Well Charles, I guess he can add me to that list of meanies who wouldn't support an unneeded tax increase. I didn't care who was supporting it, according to figures tossed around at that time transportation money had been diverted to the general fund numerous times because other things were more important than the roads and bridges. |