🚀 go-pugleaf

wrob@erols.com wrote:
> 
> Said in fond apprehension of the possibility of more freeways thru DC:
> 
> >>Me, I love DC. Lived here for 26 years. It's hard to watch a frienddie, especially when it doesn't have to...
> 
> Do you love the Eckington/Shaw area between Mount Vernon and North
> Capitol? Prez Clinton and the BOT have placed a new freeway on top of
> these neighborhoods in the top ten FEDERAL transportation area wish list.
> Yep, turning that area into a freeway-shadow perpetual wasteland of empty
> lots, a perpetual trackside slum in the nations capitol and the future
> site of postcard snapshots (the worlds most famous onramp: the National
> Capital Gateway) will make DC alot more business friendly, on par with
> Detroit, where many similar areas of "reserve parking" have proven more
> valuable to the tax base than the (hundred year old) neighborhoods of
> poor and middle class people they displaced.


Detroit's system of freeways makes DC's look laughable, FWIW. I wonder
which areas in Detroit you are referring to, specifically? Or are you
another one of those people who like to bash SE Michigan without ever
having been there?