By: Diane Benjamin
I was forced to cross Veterans Parkway today – and later drive it. During this brief foray into population density far worse than around my house:
- I saw no bikes in the bike lanes downtown or on E Washington
- The C2 East building continues to be the downtown eyesore. Weeds in the planter boxes are an exquisite welcome to Bloomington!
- Bloomington has invested a fortune in plants for downtown, the drunks will love them
- I saw a vehicle make a U-turn on Veterans Parkway
- I saw a vehicle turn left on to Vernon from Veterans Parkway in a straight lane. He must not have liked the two turn lanes packed with vehicles.
- I saw a car turn right from the left lane on Fort Jesse in to Walmart
- The concrete roads may not have many potholes, but they are wretched to drive on
- Most of the other roads are capable of brain jarring attacks
- Country roads are great
- Renner and Koos have NO say over my life
- I have private garbage service and they have never missed the right day
- I can burn brush and anything else I want to
- My water is free
This is the short list!
I feel sorry for those trapped within the city limits. The roads I was forced to drive have temporarily affected my writing. More REAL news tomorrow, stay tuned.
Let me add to your list, we have a segment of the population that feel that they have a right to park in no parking lanes then leave their vehicles and go into the stores or restaurants rather than parking 50 feet away and walking I guess being very obese entitles them to break the law. The same goes for handicap spaces. These people do this all the time and you are so right those that live in the country would never dream of doing this.
I could not agree more. I see many do this, who do not have weight issues, because they simply do not want to park in a space and walk to the door. Kroger on College ALL THE TIME.
When I would take my mom out, I checked each car for a plate or hang tag.
I had a stroke in Sept. and I’m back to checking again. So far no violators. But it does make me wonder at the location of disabled spaces at some places.
As to bikes, we live South of Wash and have seen one bike.
Yes, because their affairs are SO MUCH more important than ours. Only pleabs park in the actual parking spaces.
Laughing. And also sad because people in towns don’t have to live this way – it is self-inflicted.
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“Renner and Koos have NO say over my life” – THIS is number one
Let me add to your list. Veterans speedway: where cars exceed the speed of sound and cross three lanes of traffic with no signal. The infamous right on red law that lets every car turn right on red even though there are multitudes of cars going on the green and in the intersection. The cars behind you that are so close to your bumper you fear for not only your groceries in the trunk and backseat but your life. The people talking on their cell phones,eating breakfast,putting their makeup on,brushing their hair or mustache , while talking to the person in the seat next to them all the while trying to drive . The guy in the car with earplugs in his ear listening to lord knows what when he should be paying attention to the road. And last but not least, the “i’m late for work” drivers who rams your back end hard enough to bend the frame of the car. I too live in the country and let me tell you when I am forced to drive in BLONO I cant get out fast enough.
Two basic rules for country-dwellers: Get your Eastside Big Box shopping done on a weekday to avoid Veteran’s on the weekend. And never ever drive on Veteran’s after noon on a Friday, because that seems to be the Magic Hour when the crazy is cranked up several notches.
Diane – I agree with you and the rest of the commenters regarding living out in the country. I live in McLean in a small community, which my wife and I prefer to live than living in a larger community. I see, hear and read everything that is wrong in living in a larger community. The one thing I will disagree with is the country roads are great. My wife and I do work in BloNo. I take Old Route 66 from McLean to Shirley. That stretch of road is a disgrace. The dividing lane is crumbling away, the medians are crumbling away and there are stretches where there are holes in either side of the driving lane depending if you are coming or going. There is also a bad stretch when you take Old Route 66 when leaving McLean and heading south to Atlanta. That stretch is worse. You will know when you reach better road is when you reach the county line. Logan County does a better job in maintaining their roads. Also how much longer will the state fix the overpass lanes at the Shirley exit. The east bound overpass lane has so many holes I don’t know how much longer until a vehicle drops through onto the interstate.