Alton Traffic Circle to become an intersection?

secondcurve · 05-10-2008, 08:21 AM

This explains in a nut shell what is wrong with government. For some unknown reason, $2.5MM was earmarked for this circle by the state. No one in local government seems to know why. However, since the improvements are so unnecessary and stupid, the local residents don't want to spend the money on the proposed changes. What happens next is the local politicians will try to spend the money somewhere else since it has been designated as "theirs". The kicker is that it will take two years to consider changes to the earmark. Presumably if they wanted to use the funds to fix the unbroken circle they could start tomorrow. God help us.

05-10-2008, 08:21 AM	#25
secondcurve Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,118 Thanks: 1,329 Thanked 559 Times in 288 Posts	This explains in a nut shell what is wrong with government. For some unknown reason, $2.5MM was earmarked for this circle by the state. No one in local government seems to know why. However, since the improvements are so unnecessary and stupid, the local residents don't want to spend the money on the proposed changes. What happens next is the local politicians will try to spend the money somewhere else since it has been designated as "theirs". The kicker is that it will take two years to consider changes to the earmark. Presumably if they wanted to use the funds to fix the unbroken circle they could start tomorrow. God help us.