Are you guys nuts?
they want to take 110 homes and 10 businesses to build a truck plaza. this was all supposed to be on the canadian side, in land that doesn’t hurt anybody. but because the current administration’s Homeland Security wants to be able to fingerprint anyone and everyone for any or no reason, Canada said they won’t rape people’s rights and refused peace bridge expansion on their side. So now this administration, with a year left, is trying to bully and speed it up before it is defunked.
they are trying to take historic homes for one, but they are also trying to take the only part of that neighborhood that is good. you take the good part out of a struggling neighborhood and leave only the bad. what will happen? the bad will get worse.
not to mention the INCREDIBLE rate of cancer among citizens in that area, already, due to the pollution caused by vehicles. Front park (formerly The Front) was once the PREMIER PUBLIC PARK IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY designed by frederick law olmsted and calvert vaux. it is currently partitioned from the water by ELEVEN LANES of traffic.
I have in my possession an air quality study that the PBA has tried to keep quiet. it shows how fucked up the air is there already, and you want to add a truck park? fuck people are stupid.
jesus christ. the people who support this project are just as guilty as those who knocked down the Larkin Building, put a highway through one of the best park system in the country, which in turn created a huge barrier and massive ghettoes
support terrible shit. i hope you realize the kind of cancer that results from this type of thing. i don’t wish ill upon anyone, but fuck. that’s pretty brutal basically facilitating hundreds of families to be even more susceptible to various types of cancer
edit: and for you people who don’t understand eminent domain; if your house is next to a pole for a traffic ramp, but not directly in the way, they give you nothing for your home. there you go, your $150,000 house is now worth $15,000, you will be forced to move because you don’t want to live in a fucking truck park, and you get dick for it.