Get It Over With: Delays fixing Biz 40 just extend pain
(By Scott Sexton, Winston-Salem Journal) - A recent advertisement announcing another public meeting involving the N.C. Department of Transportation and its plans for overhauling the decrepit Business 40 caused me to break into a bad case of the giggles.
"Meeting Notification. Working Group Kick Off."
Anyone who has ever sat stewing in a traffic jam when multiple lanes of cars are shoe-horned abruptly into one while eight guys in orange vests watch one guy work can appreciate the irony.
This particular meeting, though, is even more delicious because it's promoting yet another public meeting nearly two full years after another series of over-hyped meetings on the same topic: Rebuilding a 1.1-mile stretch of Business 40 through downtown.
"An opportunity to provide your input on community impacts, traffic, aesthetics and other issues important to you concerning the Business 40 Improvement Project," the ad says.
More process, less paving.
"Meeting Notification. Working Group Kick Off."
Anyone who has ever sat stewing in a traffic jam when multiple lanes of cars are shoe-horned abruptly into one while eight guys in orange vests watch one guy work can appreciate the irony.
This particular meeting, though, is even more delicious because it's promoting yet another public meeting nearly two full years after another series of over-hyped meetings on the same topic: Rebuilding a 1.1-mile stretch of Business 40 through downtown.
"An opportunity to provide your input on community impacts, traffic, aesthetics and other issues important to you concerning the Business 40 Improvement Project," the ad says.
More process, less paving.
posted by BP News Bureau | 8:54 PM
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