Today just felt like the right day for a ride to one of the other common destinations not yet visited yet this season. A southeast wind means that if I ride about 8 miles due into the southeast wind I can then pretty much ride about 15 miles first west (tailwind) and then north (tailwind). This ride requires sorta light winds or the first part is too hard. Today we had 5mph SE and temperatures rising to and mostly through the 70s while I was out there. It WAS the right day for it.
Como Avenue is the rarest of streets here in the big grid. From Lake Como heading east Como Avenue veers off the cardinal direction and travels southeasterly. A bit less than 8 miles into this trek I came upon this.
I know that major renovations are going on behind the curtain and that the price tag is going to run up pretty close to $2 million. I probably should include a crack or two about this is what open government actually looks like in Minnesota.
I rode around to the front where I found that most of the work out there has been completed (or maybe not started yet). This is a view from down by the Transportation Building of the beautiful Capitol mall.
Oh, wait. That's a parking lot. Because state legislators are such important people that they can't be troubled to actually park in a remote location while other construction over there has temporarily moved them out of the ramp where they usually park. They are such important people that they ripped up the mall and put down asphalt for one reason only, their personal convenience.
Question: If they are so important why are their salaries so low in comparison to, oh, say for example, school teachers?
Answer: Because they are mostly small time bozos who clearly SHOULD be paid a LOT less than school teachers. And as it is they are still mostly overpaid when considering the value they actually provide. They are building a new office building for themselves over to the left of this photo which was authorized by a process outside the state constitutionally mandated process for authorizing funds for capital improvements.
Just my opinion, I could be wrong.
I intend to vote "no" for all of them any chance I get from now on.
This is breaking out all over town now.
That's a spot down by the river where they actually have some flowering trees as boulevard trees. Today it was tres pretty, really nice. It is a wonderful day here in what until the end of October or so is pretty dang close to paradise.
2 comments:
Definitely a destination ride. That route used to be ridden in the other direction?
Sad about the mall and the petty politicians. A pox on both their houses.
Nice to finally see some flowering shrubs in MN. Too dang cold to ride here. 55 in mid afternoon.
Paid less than school teachers? Do they also have the summers off? They, like school teachers, must earn public trust and respect. They are not on the right track.
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