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Our region is served by a regional group (just a quick look at the website will tell you what they are REALLY about marc.org) who is a conduit for federal grants for all sorts of wokeness. Cities gobble up this 'free money' from the Feds for all kinds of things. One city of 20K or so residents got nearly $200K for this new 'strategic com…
Our region is served by a regional group (just a quick look at the website will tell you what they are REALLY about https://www.marc.org/) who is a conduit for federal grants for all sorts of wokeness. Cities gobble up this 'free money' from the Feds for all kinds of things. One city of 20K or so residents got nearly $200K for this new 'strategic comprehensive plan' process that included all of the hallmarks of the whole '15 minute city' phenomena. I do business research for a living and just wrapped up a project doing competitive intelligence for a Landscape Architecture client firm which included looking at LOTS of different city council meeting agendas, documents and video. Every LA firm I looked at has been making bank from all levels of gov in these planning, development and implementation of green new deal projects and dollars are overwhelmingly Fed. I can show you project after project that are as close to cookie cutter as you can get and since the vast majority of citizens pay ZERO attention to local meetings or even vote in local elections they have no freaking clue this is going on until it is too late to stop it. But the Left IS paying attention, and when these projects have the 'public input' part, the vast majority of the people who attend, are these utopians who lap this stuff up and applaud it. I have seen this in my city since the Obama administration and been trying to fight it but up until the past few years have been mostly a lone voice in the wilderness. I say it over and over again: LOCAL MATTERS! People need to start paying attention.
It is just delusional and anti-human. I think the WEF enlisted our governor Poisy Hat to make the Motor City the bike city and EV area, despite the fact that there are no sidewalks in Detroit and winter is 7 months and they don't plow the side streets unless we get 5 feet of snow or something. They got some big green delusional grant to destroy and gentrify the park near us, which, ordinarily is home to quadrillions of squirrels, raccoons, white tail deer, coyotes, crackheads selling and imbibing, driving at meth speeds, and male prostitution, organized via text message. First they numbered the shelters, and now they are making bike lanes and snow hills with huge amounts of construction money coming from some green source. So perhaps once every few months some spandex bicyclists will drive through the drug dealers and exhibitionist prostitutes, though the dousing with glyphosate has been killing the wildlife. I figure it is for Governor Poisy Hat and Rhashida Tlaib of Hamas to roll around with Larry Fink on the Gatsby lawns like Springtime for Hitler, synchronized, with some greedy CEOs and Chinese and Iranian spies hiding behind the maples. All on that MidEast drug that the Iranians feed to Hamas, just as the Waffen SS put all the soldiers on meth.
Madness!
Yes our city has also spent big bucks putting in sidewalks and wider trail-like sidewalks (that ostensibly both bikers and walkers could both use). My hubby is a runner, though, and in the winter when they plow the streets, huge mounds of snow, that turn into giant dirty ice boulders almost completely cover these sidewalks rendering them mostly unusable.