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. ^__^
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Date: 2010-03-20 04:37 am (UTC)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. ^__^