Thursday, July 13, 2006

Now that the Legislature has decided to postpone the Constitutional Convention until AFTER the elections (such heroism has rarely been seen before) perhaps it can do as the elitists professes to want and turn attention to the "people's business". I refer not to getting jobs for their brother-in-law, or putting a new park in front of some rental property held in a spouse's name, but rather to fixing the deplorable condition of one of the Commonwealth's major highways ....... the long neglected Route 2! The only vehicular route to Boston from North Central Mass., Route 2 is poorly maintained and completely inadequate for today's needs. The numerous traffic signals between the Route 128 interchange and Acton create a horrendous and needless backlog of traffic at any time of day. The Concord Rotary is a dangerous farce. I'll bet that there are more accidents and injuries in that rotary then are caused by people failing to wear the seatbelts as now legally mandated. The communities of Lexington, Concord and Acton have no right to force hundreds of thousands of commuters to be needlessly delayed to assuage their effete sensibilities. I don't advocate draining Walden Pond, but bypassing those traffic signals and creating an alternative to the rotary are improvements long overdue. Yes Acton may have to increase it's property taxes to compensate for extorting money from honest commuters but so be it. People can choose to live there or move to another town. Commuters have no such option. Perhaps if our tax dollar bloated solons had had the foresight to re-locate the cramped Logan Airport to the old Ft. Devens when the federal government offered the property to the state, a modernized mass transit alternative would have been necessitated. Why we wouldn't have even needed the Ted Williams Tunnel or the connector which now endangers the lives of anyone who uses it. Sadly we live in Massachusetts where foresight and common sense are as rare a dragon teeth and unicorns. What's that you say about the "Commuter Rail"? Yes we have the civil war era "purple line" and it's 2 1/2 hour ride. Hardly a bullet train now is it. Perhaps the gluttons who run this sate need to be reminded that we, the citizens of North Central Mass. pay taxes also. I know it will come as a shock, but the world exists beyond Route 495.
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