Tunnel of Love Driving Fast
As Mobile grows most agree she’s gonna need bigger britches, and now there’s talk of new tunnels and causeways, which causes me to shudder thinking of what happens to traffic when the roads are filled with guys holding stop and go signs, orange flags waving in the asphalt dust . . .but about that GW Tunnel. Is there really a problem with the tunnel itself or could the matter be with a lot of the folks driving thru it? If I were a shrink I might say some of those drivers speed up once inside the tunnel because they can’t wait to get out. They might have tunnelitis - fear of driving in a tunnel. Or it might be cellphoneitis - fear of call being dropped while you are driving thru a tunnel. But I would like to see a Golden Gate Bridge spanning our great catfish pond, connecting the city with eastern shore . .. maybe we can build one along side the causeway, leaving the causeway for those who have . . . you guessed it, bridgeitis . . . and if that’s not corny enough for you . . listen to this . . .
March 6th, 2008 at 9:49 am
The South has a curse of not looking at the big picture when it comes to development. When my brother was in Minneapolis, one thing that he noted was that when the city saw an area that had the potential to explode with industry or businesses, they went ahead and built a four lane highway out to the area. There were places in the middle of nowhere around Minneapolis that had these huge roadways, but they were looking at the big picture.