By: Diane Benjamin

If you want to buy something and then find out the cost is more than twice what you expected, what do you do?

If you’re the Town of Normal and want to save 50 feet with an underpass that vehicles can’t even use, you plow ahead and look for more money from other people.

If you’re Connect Transit and want a downtown Bloomington transfer center, you do the same thing. More than double the cost? Immaterial.

Costs don’t matter when other people are paying the bills. See why the country is $36.5 trillion in debt?

The City of Bloomington tried to sell the new parking lots as “development.” Meanwhile, according to this story, the new transfer station will only have two parking levels above it instead of three: WGLT article.

The new parking lots are needed for when the garage is torn down. But with less parking replacing the garage, those lots will be needed long-term for people who work downtown. Bloomington is planning to charge for parking, which means avoiding downtown is high on my list.

According to the article, the transfer station is only 50% designed, so the final cost isn’t even known. Since government doesn’t plan like us peons—who would put off buying something that costs way more than expected—they aren’t capable of restraint. Maybe some peons would just accumulate debt because they can’t tell themselves, this is a stupid idea. Maybe that’s where bureaucrats are hatched.

If you want to watch the meeting below, know you won’t be able to see the slides presented. Nice!

Meanwhile, three people showed up for Public Comment at this week’s Connect Transit Board meeting. These three have been conditioned to rely on subsidized transportation and therefore expect it to be available whenever and wherever they need it. Government creates dependents on purpose—these three are proof. Just hit PLAY.

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