@jws There's probably a 'law' named after someone, stating that the building of new road schemes to alleviate traffic jams increases the probability of traffic jams.
// @gtwilson
@gtwilson What must hurt the most is contained in your opening post, now the city is cutting funding for events, what is there to attract people?
The UK Conservative government before this one created a concept called 'The Big Society'; essentially removing all government support and forcing locals to pick up the slack. Yeah, like that'll work long-term.
@gtwilson Please excuse me, I've been lost in the map. It used to happen more frequently than I've got time for now.
Looking at the traffic info along the road it seems things have slowed down at home time. Aren't new roads supposed to open up capacity? ;)
I never get good news from my hometown.
A county commissioner, on Facebook, announces the cessation of funding for "the Art Center, the Actors Guild, a historic theatre, the Veterans Museum, the Homecoming Festival, the West Virginia Interstate Fair and Exposition, the Belleville Homecoming Festival, the Mid-Ohio Valley Multi-Cultural Festival, the Half-Marathon and others".
The reason is that a hotel tax used to pay for that stuff and the hotel business has died.
The reason it died is they completed a multil-multi million dollar road project that completely bypassed the damned city! People told them at the time, "This is bad". They replied, "It will be good for business. Trust us."
They had a hard enough time with tourism as it was.
Parkersburg: We were really something before the trains came and caused the river traffic to die off.
Parkersburg: It's not a sandbar over there. It's an island where people plotted to overthrow the government once. And it has arrowheads and stuff.
Parkersburg: If you can navigate the bypass to reach us, good on you!
I could go on at length about that town but I will spare you.
@gtwilson I've travelled the tiniest bit of Route 66 in a couple of states. I've seen what bypassing towns does, witnessed the shuttered shops and eateries. Does no-one understand the impact of historic events on this modern world or is there something else at work here? Progress isn't everything if the people driving it are simply in search of a personal legacy, a name on a bridge or on a stretch of road.
Incidentally, this is going out over pnut.io too; it's easier to get the traditional 256 character count there. :)