Plans are like your kids no matter how bad they are you still love them.
Think first is the first rule.
An interstate level road through Martinsville would be a good thing, they’re hurting economically and have been for years. US 220 is being upgraded to interstate standards south of the VA state line in NC for I-73. I’m surprised they’re still debating the matter there.
Raising the tax rate from 5.3% to 6% is an increase in the tax rate itself of 100*(6-5.3)/5.3 or 13%.
How many of us would characterize a wage hike of 13% as "comparatively small"?
Once raised, rates like this seldom get reduced.
Looks like it’s planned to make it easy for students from Virginia Tech and Liberty to get to Myrtle Beach. Other than that, it doesn’t seem to have much legitimate purpose, as the folks north of the Ohio River don’t seem to have much interest, and the folks in WV are going with a non-interstate quality alternative.
Big Yellow Taxi
by Joni Mitchell
© Siquomb Publishing Company
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel *, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
Put ‘em in a tree museum *
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see ‘em
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Hey farmer farmer
Put away that DDT * now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
If I'm not mistaken, the I-73 thing has been talked about for 15 years. At least.
How long did it take for the entire original Interstate system to be planned and built back in the 50s and 60s?
Just another example of how we're not a serious country any more.
We talk about and plan things, simple things, for YEARS. Our ancestors actually DID things.