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Tax Dollars At Work

It’s annoying enough to be stuck behind someone one driving slow because they are to busy on the phone to drive the speed limit, but it is even more annoying to be stuck behind someone on the cell phone, who is paid by your tax dollars in a vehicle paid for by your tax dollars.

This is not an isolated incident, it seems every time I see a city vehicle, the driver has their cell phone plastered to their ear.

I think the city should be setting an example in safety an ban cell phone use be people driving city vehicles.

Talking on the phone

City employee driving on the cell phone

BTW this photo was take while stopped at a red light…

 

 

Guardrails Now?

It really makes you wonder about the brainiac’s running this city, when for years and years there were no guardrails on Princess Anne road between Dam Neck and the Municipal center, but now that the road is being expanded someone thought it a good idea to go ahead and spend a lot of money to install guardrails the majority of that section of road.
The city is saying how poor they(we) are, and trying to steal money from the schools, but they have plenty of the stuff to do this road upgrade for a road that essentially is going away in the near future. Well maybe not that soon, considering how slow this city Builds roads, I think it took 4 years to widen London Bridge road…

It’s Been A While…

Sorry I have not been keeping up things here, but it seems that for the past few months, I’ve been gone more then I’ve been home, but the schedule is changing and the tempo of my travel will be slowing down a bit, hopefully to a couple nights a month vice a couple nights a week like it’s been since February…

Walk In The Park

It was a gorgeous day in Virginia Beach today, and since it was I decided a nice hike in FIrst Landing State Park was in order, and apparently a lot of other people did too.

If I had to guess (which I am) I would say there are over 15 miles of hiking trails in the park, none of which are real rough for almost anyone. Decided on the Osmanthus Trail, which is about 3 miles long, and mostly flat, with a few boardwalks through the really wet parts.

More Snowplow Observations

Over the weekend, Saturday, I got around and took care of some things, and I noticed as I passed the 4th or 5th school I passed, that despite being closed for the christmas break (well mostly closed, a couple admin people working) was that the parking lots were plowed. Is there any reason that the school parking lots needed to be plowed when the schools were closed, and the icy roads leading to and from the schools weren’t, sounds real counter productive to me. School budgets are shrinking, yet they have the money to plow parking lots…

Later that evening, while riding bikes to the local bar, we took the usual short cut through the local rec center parking lot, and what did I see while going through the parking lot… Yep you guessed it, the parking lot at the rec center was also plowed, meanwhile earlier in the day I was drivingndown fully covered in snow streets, a week after the snow fell…

Snow covered road

Everyday I wonder more and more where this towns priorities are, it doesn’t appear to me that the tax g citizens are very high on that prior it list..