Any official who was anybody, was under the Tilghman Street Bridge last week praising the new road to be built, wedged between Front Street and the river. The Morning Call in their glowing article was wrong in its first line, The road stretches for about 3.5 miles on the east side of Allentown, and no more accurate thereafter.
East Allentown of course is on the other side of the river, on the east side, and never gets anything. If the money and project was going to the east side, then it would be indeed the big deal our bloated officials make this out to be. However, the bloaters and their erroneousness statements brought a smirk to my face, well worth the $22to$55 $million $dollars being $wasted. The Jaindl portion of the road being built is referred to as "private money." I suppose in the world of bureaucratic grants, public money from another source, such as the NIZ diverted state taxes, almost seems like private to them.
Over the decades I watched the bureaucrats involved mature from interns to fully salaried public pontificators. State Rep Schlossberg warned that roads can be racist, but no worry, Hasshan Batts is on traffic duty.
Half a block to the west, Front Street will still run the same path from Hamilton Street north to Whitehall. Many thousands of people, over a hundred and fifty years, took dozens of small roads into their workplaces along the river during our prosperous past. Taxes and public good came from those enterprises. Now our taxes will flow the other way, to benefit the connected bloaters.
Well said Mike
ReplyDeleteMike a conspericy with a degree of mental copability. These very same bureaucrats acting collectively with this so called private monies are knowingly, intentionally as well as negligently and recklessly for the best interests of the public?
ReplyDeleteOne needs to wonder what good will come as the city is a crime riddin cesspool of degenerats at the top.