Friday, August 13, 2010

Annarborsbad cavern

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All this, enabling people to bring their cars into town, rather than leaving them on the outskirts and taking the bus.

Oy vey.











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morningbrayfarm said...

Oy vey is right. *Sigh.* Sorry.

August 13, 2010 at 1:01:00 PM EDT
I need orange said...

There is not a shred of doubt in my mind that our collective disinclination to be inconvenienced, at all, ever, is destroying the planet.

*Sigh* is right...........

And ... alas...........

August 13, 2010 at 1:11:00 PM EDT
jennifer black said...

Whoa. Is that for a parking garage?

We're building our second parking garage on my campus. A colleague figured that the cost equals about 46K per parking space. But there's plenty of parking in the part of campus that's across one measly street, but, oh, yeah, they'd have to walk or ride the shuttle.

Gotta have those cars, eh?


Crazy.

August 13, 2010 at 2:09:00 PM EDT
I need orange said...

Yep. A totally underground parking garage.

I would no sooner park down there than ... I'd jump in, now, from where I took the pic.

The mayor et al want to put a huge convention-center hotel on top of it.

It's not clear to me that anyone has actually proven that there is a need for such a thing. At least -- not often enough to make it pay.......

So for now, they are just building this ginormous hole in the ground, which they think will be full of cars that people are paying to leave there.

We'll see......................

I don't like above-ground parking structures, and won't park there (but then I'm one of those weird bus-takers). I do think that, as a 40-yr resident, I should be able to park downtown on the rare occasions that I try to do so...... But no one cares about that; they believe they are working on enticing people who don't live here to come....

To come, and park ... how many stories do you think that is? Down and down and down.... Six? More? I'd rather walk downtown AND walk home (carrying my library books!) than go down there!

Ann Arbor is a lovely place to be.

There isn't room here for all the people who would like to live here. As "they" work to make room for all of those people, they are turning Ann Arbor into ... something it isn't.

"Density" -- which translates into more taller buildings and more bigger parking structures (rather than the interesting and human-scale architecture we currently have).

I think it is ENTIRELY unclear that *anyone* wants this thing they are trying to turn Ann Arbor into.........

Sigh.

or, make that: *SIGH*

August 13, 2010 at 2:51:00 PM EDT

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