An Open Letter To My Archnemesis

[xifeng]

Dear INDOT,

Eat a dick, seriously. Does it not occur to you that IN-66 is a major thoroughfare and most of us need it? No, heaven forfend. Seriously, you've torn it up at least a bazillion times over the past three years. Could you please just get it right?

OUR TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR YOUR GROSSLY INFLATED SALARIES YOU KNOW.

No love,
l33

(PS: brb going 2 library nau :DDDDD)

Comments

[duokinneas.livejournal.com]

This sounds like the major interstate construction projects that've been going on in Boise for over six years - since before I started driving on my own. They've added exits and lanes, and it's still always torn up, always cut down to one lane, always crowded, and always bumpy as shit. Is that the kind of idiocy you dealt with on IN-66?

Indiana and Idaho need to get their shit together. If I'm going to pay taxes, I'm going to get a government that can pay roads, dammit! **seethes**

Hope you had fun at the library! ^_^

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, yeah! What cracks me up is that Our Man Mitch (Gov. Daniels) is all OMG I-69 I-69 I-69, because he basically wants to extend a section of I-69 to be a straight shot from Evansville to Bloomington. In Evansville, this is generally considered to be a Good Thing.

Well, I don't care where I'm living now--I'm a Bloomingtonian, and it is not a Good Thing. Number one, a lot of the southern Indiana counties are still predominantly rural (THANK YOU CIVIL WAR, I'm not kidding, we've really never recovered from it) and the eminent domain procedures would adversely affect a LOT of farmers. (And I think family farms, which is what most of these are, deserve to exist more than factory farms.) Number two, one of the things that we're known for in Bloomington is the natural beauty of the area, and concrete and asphalt aren't exactly enhancing that.

I am of the school that INDOT funds would best be spent on fixing the roads that we already have. If you ever have occasion to drive US-41 up north to Terre Haute, you will understand exactly what I mean. But yeah, basically we have a lot of bumpy-ass FLAGGER AHEAD shit going on.

The library, however, was frabdapulous. No complaints there. ^__^