I was going to turn on Comment Moderation because my famous asshole friend appears to have managed to use Chinese language characters and is posting comments to my site. After checking the IP addresses of people that visit, none were from China or Korea. But, there are some with the “famous” IP address of my hateful friend. I am not going to moderate comments and will just delete the Chinese ones that come in. I want people to tell me what they think whether they agree or disagree with my opinions. I don’t mind and can take the criticism but I will not tolerate someone picking on my employer as I don’t mention my employer here. That is where I draw the line.
Other things going on around here is the Hardy Boys showed up last week to install a sidewalk up Laramie hill from Antoinette St to Harmon Hwy on the east side where there has never been a sidewalk before. People walk in the street to go to Madison Park and it is dangerous with the traffic.
Why do I say the Hardy Boys. Because it apparently takes two to three city supervisors to get them to work and they love to park their brand new with new city logo SUVs across my driveway. The company doing the work is a private company so I guess the city wants to make sure the grant money is well spent.
Grant money? Yes because our 1st District councilman, Gulley, can’t seem to get any funds other than one time grants for the south end and then the council throws us a bone. “Look, we’re putting money into the neighborhood!” I say horseshit!
More like, when money comes around on the horse shoe, Van Auken and Spears say “Sit Gulley, Roll over Gulley, we need the money for ornamental lighting or drainage or a new arbor Gulley.” So we here survive on the lonesome once every ten year grant.
The sidewalks they are putting in come without curbs and without storm drains. Just cut a path with an end loader, lay the concrete, and you’re done!
Well almost except the Hardy Boys hit an AT&T buried cable which meant all through the holiday weekend, the street was closed while 10 AT&T trucks worked on the cable. Oops!
Which brings me to today coming home to find two city cars blocking the street so they could talk. (Don’t they have cell phones or radio?) A truck was trying to get around them while they blocked the street. This truck was towing a long trailer loaded with construction stuff and I was trying to come the other way also trying to get around them. Would they move? Nope. The truck was idling, waiting as was I when the truck’s engine stopped. Wouldn’t start. Guess whose driveway it blocked? No place to park as the city has cars parked everywhere as do the construction people.
It wasn’t the truck’s fault. It was the city’s fault. Want to save money City of Peoria? We could do save with less supervisor SUVs.
3 comments:
I used to walk up that hill on a regular basis. In fact, my father would walk to Krogers and back every day as exercise after his first stroke. This was 1964. We didn't need sidewalks there then. Why put them in now? Next thing you know, you will be demanding curbs and sidewalks in frount of your house. While you are at it why ot demand free garbage collection and an exemption from paying for the Museum Block!
Cesspool: You need to leave Morton more often. We already have sidewalks (no curbs) in front. They were installed last year. The hill is dangerous to walk up without sidewalks. The question is; Will people use the sidewalks once installed?
Hateful friend:
And who would that be? Come on, tell us.
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