Topic: Lights
started by: Whiskero
Posted by Whiskero on May 18 2013,8:20 am
If our "old" lights are good enough for New Richland to update, then why aren't they good enough for us to do the same?
Posted by This is my real name on May 18 2013,8:36 am
Because they weren't in the sketch the Streetscape consultants drew up, silly! We'll have to replace them someday anyway, so we might as well replace them now. 
On a different note, I've been thinking about running for public office. Is my statement above about right for what seems to be their line of thinking?
Posted by Grinning_Dragon on May 18 2013,9:35 am
Because your city is run by a bunch of uneducated, self serving, proselytizing morons, who seem to think that Albert Lea is swimming in cash, when in fact they are draining the pool leaving stagnant water behind.
Posted by This is my real name on May 18 2013,10:26 am
(Grinning_Dragon @ May 18 2013,9:35 am)
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Because your city is run by a bunch of uneducated, self serving, proselytizing morons, who seem to think that Albert Lea is swimming in cash, when in fact they are draining the pool leaving stagnant water behind.
Come on. Tell us how you REALLY feel.
All kidding aside, well put
Posted by twingroves on May 18 2013,10:26 am
i have been telling you people all along that this town is run by a bunch of dumb ass people
Posted by This is my real name on May 18 2013,10:32 am
(twingroves @ May 18 2013,10:26 am)
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i have been telling you people all along that this town is run by a bunch of dumb ass people
I don't think they're as dumb as you're telling us. I think they know exactly what they're doing, and they just don't care. They've made it all about themselves.
Posted by Self-Banished on May 18 2013,11:03 am
I'd stick my 2cents in but where I live the idiots aren't much better 
Posted by pepi la pew on May 20 2013,9:57 am
The only dumb a$$ are the ones that keep voting them back into office. 
Posted by sumpdump on May 22 2013,9:34 am
but but but....we have I90 & I35 intersection....that makes it all better build it and they will come....higher taxes that is
Posted by This is my real name on May 22 2013,9:50 am
(sumpdump @ May 22 2013,9:34 am)
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but but but...we have I90 & I35 intersection...that makes it all better
build it and they will come...higher taxes that is
build it and they will come...higher taxes that is
Boy, do I get tired of THAT reasoning.
I think that's one of the things that actually keeps us from growing. It makes us a stop along the way instead of a destination. Easy on, easy off - while travelers continue on their way to somewhere else.
Posted by twingroves on May 22 2013,1:23 pm
thats it stop buy some gas buy something to eat maybe stay the nite then get the hell out of town thats the way the big shot city runners think
Posted by Botto 82 on May 22 2013,1:50 pm
(sumpdump @ May 22 2013,9:34 am)
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but but but...we have I90 & I35 intersection...that makes it all better
We did think that way, back when they were building the thing...
Now look - even US highways are purposely bypassing towns. US 14 goes around more towns then it goes through, anymore. That has to suck for businesses.
A.L. was far better before the Interstate Highway System. So were a lot of places.
Posted by nzeroesc on May 22 2013,3:05 pm
I think Pixar represented it well in the movie Cars with their use of the James Taylor song Our Town< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGlmCShMQpI >
Posted by Self-Banished on May 22 2013,6:07 pm
(Botto 82 @ May 22 2013,1:50 pm)
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(sumpdump @ May 22 2013,9:34 am)
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but but but...we have I90 & I35 intersection...that makes it all better
We did think that way, back when they were building the thing...
Now look - even US highways are purposely bypassing towns. US 14 goes around more towns then it goes through, anymore. That has to suck for businesses.
A.L. was far better before the Interstate Highway System. So were a lot of places.
No it wasn't, the interstate helped by making it easier to get out of hillbilly land.
Posted by ICU812 on May 23 2013,8:26 am
(nzeroesc @ May 22 2013,3:05 pm)
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I think Pixar represented it well in the movie Cars with their use of the James Taylor song Our Town
< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGlmCShMQpI >
< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGlmCShMQpI >
I think of AL every time I see that part (and I see it a lot, my 3yr old boys love that movie)
Posted by Botto 82 on May 23 2013,9:48 am
I don't know how many here remember what a vibrant place Albert Lea was prior to the Interstates. I do.Everything that passed through the area, from any direction, had to go through town.
Every storefront downtown was occupied. Every one.
You actually had to wait for the light to walk across Main, at Broadway, or at Newton, for that matter.
Somehow, the new intersection of two of the most significant highways in the U.S., so close to town, was to be a boon to Albert Lea, but the civic leaders of the time were unable or unwilling to cash in on that potential.
Posted by Self-Banished on May 23 2013,1:13 pm
Des Moines Ia. Has the same logistics, seems not to be a problem there.
Posted by pepi la pew on May 23 2013,3:14 pm
You are right SB the city fathers did some planning for the time ahead. are city leaders did the planning for the past! They don't think ahead?
Posted by twingroves on May 23 2013,3:40 pm
you are right the city leaders do not think you have to have a brain to think