-> On 02 Jun 09  02:11:52, Bob Ackley got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Unfathomable

 BA>> on several occasions I had people I didn't know park in my *back*
 BA>> yard (access off the public alley) without permission - and I
 BA>> couldn't get
 
 DC> When the Travers Race was still the "4th Jewel of the Triple
Crown", 
 DC> people were getting as much as $50 to park your car on their lawn!

 BA> 'settlement' became known as  'Dingerville' after one of its first
 BA> residents (the 'Dingerville' area was noticeably cleaner when the
 BA> residents left after the CWS than when they arrived).  Then the city
 BA> made all that illegal, condemned that vacant lot (which had been
 BA> vacant for at least a decade) and planted trees on it.  Now the city is

It sound like the campers were good for the city!  

 BA> brand new multizillion dollar stadium will be used for all of five
 BA> days a year) and there isn't any free parking within miles of the place
 BA> - no convenient public  transportation, either.  Note also that the new
 BA> stadium will eliminate about 1/4 of the already insufficient (paid)
 BA> parking for Omaha's convention center. 

City planning at it's best.  I hate paying for parking when spending 
money.  It's what drove shoppers out of the city and into the shopping 
malls.  All for what?  Small change and the chance to ticket a car 
for the big bucks when a meter expires?  

 BA> senator Bob Kerry, who pushed through federal funding for it before he
 BA> left the senate), look just to the southwest and see Daub's Disaster
 BA> (Omaha's convention center) and look just to the northwest and see
 BA> Fahey's Fiasco (the new baseball stadium), 

Those appear to be early additions to the bad planning.  

I caught that the old Detroit Statium will be torm down.  The real shame is 
that it was elligible for funds as an historical site.  The structure would 
have been preserved.  Offices would be built in the main structrue and 
the filed would have been used by the kids.  

But, it's not gonna happen...  

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