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And what's worse, is that, as I said, the bridge eventually got the HHH stadium traffic, something for which it carried traffic in and out, but had NOT been designed to hold. Further riverfront development ensured more traffic crossed than had ever been the ORIGINAL intent. We warned them about highly concentrated urban development many, many times over the years. But the price of real estate was right, the poor had to be moved and the jobs "created". I am going to mention this, too. My family built bridges in Minnesota and so I knew something about the fact it should be done PROPERLY. You can google "mendota bridge" and see what a marvel that was ... so much mitigated against the building of this bridge. It is a city and area of BRIDGES. There was no excuse for shoddy construction and what's more .. Minnesota stopped using Minnesota engineers to plan and construct them! This is an extreme example of development taking precedence over people, and we, the citizens - mislabled as "commies", NDNs, pot-smoking hippies, POOR people -- warned them about possible consequences ... The bridge has been a tragedy since Day One. I truly hope someone in the media investigates enough to find out how much money Heller Seagal got, how much the bridge contractors received, and digs deeply into the situation, rather than accepting some statements from some more white guys/gals in suits ..
Virginia Simson is a spiritual journalista/activist who runs a visionary planetary tutorial blogspot, www.ladybroadoak.blogspot.com as well as a blog on the uranium industry and depleted uranium at www.lowlevelradiation.blogspot.com. She feels that we must educate the young as to the real issues of the day - economics, clean energy, a drug free lifestyle, friendship and concern for the environment. We must plan for seven generations in the future. She unconditionally supports impeachment and a war crimes tribunal of the current DC administration - including CONgress.
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