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Nice city pics here. Also the first Oregon photo is stunning.
Beetle busy fighting against a wall:
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Originally Posted by Ariete
NIMBY attitude as its worst. This empty plot is being planned to be built, but the residents in the house in the background of course do whatever they can, AS THEIR VIEW IS OBSCURED (and 2 lowest floors only:
Looks like a rather upscale building? Explains a lot. The most active nimbies are often reasonably well off retired people. Not easy to have the financial means and time to engage in long legal processes.
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Originally Posted by nei
Now going northeast towards downtown. Southwest Corridor. An expressway was planned to go southwest of downtown through Boston, expanding space that previously held a railroad line. The expressway was cancelled due to community opposition, but some of the demolition had already been done. Some of the space was used for local rapid transit (subway line) which used to run elevated on top of a commercial street. The subway tracks were placed next to the already existing longer distance train tracks.. The remaining space on the side was turned into a bike path, with a small linear park and gardens. I used the bike path, here are the train tracks next to it:
Looks like a rather upscale building? Explains a lot. The most active nimbies are often reasonably well off retired people. Not easy to have the financial means and time to engage in long legal processes.
Summer fun. Spent 40 minutes pulling Potatoes out of the ground. A 10 foot x 4 foot area yielded 188 Potatoes. Red Norlun and Yellows. Picked 5 corns too.
Warm Humid evening with bugs bugging me!
There were some big mammas in there
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