This is why there’s more than a little libertarian in us…
This is… uh, well, this article by Dong-Phuong Nguyen in the Tampa Bay Times makes us smack a hand to our foreheads over and over and over and….
The two-lane road meanders for about a mile through open land primed for development. In the distance, houses with fresh paint and new sod peek out from behind transplanted trees.
The road was built so residents in bustling New Tampa could get from Hillsborough to Pasco County without having to take traffic-clogged Bruce B. Downs Boulevard. But at the end of the road, named Kinnan Street, sit barricades and weeds. Sixty feet away, across the county line, is another road, which was supposed to connect and complete the path to Pasco.
But the two roads might never meet, leaving the street a worthless $2.2-million road to nowhere.
This, my friends, is one of the problems with solely relying on the government to solve problems: too many politicians are morons. Will the two sides finally come to logical terms and connect this sucker? It seems about as likely as Eric and I connecting the two roads:
“We cannot consider (joining the roads),” said Bipin Parikh, assistant Pasco County administrator. He said he needs to look out for the residents and streets of Meadow Pointe, to the north of the road with traffic problems of its own.
Oh, boy. And oh, girl, while we’re at it.
Granted, we’re not convinced that the privatization of road construction is the answer, or even an answer. But it’s times like these when letters to the editor seem essential, when we essentially owe it to ourselves to call our legislators to get their heads out of their each other’s posteriors. Why? Because they won’t do it on their own.
You’ve simple got to see this photo to believe it.
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