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I recall my intended-to-be-humorous observation, during the Meredith traffic circles discussion, that NH is construcing traffic circles while England is removing them. Now it appears that NH is also considering the removal of an existing circle. That's could be called having it both ways. Or is it just make work?
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I have a lot of friends from England, many of whom I met when they did vacation rentals here at the lake, and I keep hearing the same story from them all the time. They've mentioned everything from roundabouts to healthcare and other policies. They always ask "Why are Americans trying to be more like us? We like [our way] so much we're scaling it back." It's true though... I always hear American politicians saying with great envy, "Well in OTHER westernized countries like England they have ______ and we don't." But in 3 trips to England to visit those same friends I'd hear their sentiments all over the street: "Our way doesn't work and we should take a closer look the way the Americans do it." Therefore it might be our own snob-nosed politicians thinking that everything about Europe is hip & trendy and makes more sense.
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Kudos to the Alton Selectmen and administration for letting the public give so much input on this situation. I hope they do the right thing by exploring all options - it seems they're taking a conservative approach with this.
I'm cautious of money that comes from the government without a hook - improvement might be made with the money but the Selectmen should consider that upkeep to those improvements will cost money in the future. Someone at that meeting commented we should just make the absolute necessary improvements to the circle and return the money left over to Concord. Depending on the conditions of the "earmark", that might be the best avenue (no pun intended...) ![]() |
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This explains in a nut shell what is wrong with government. For some unknown reason, $2.5MM was earmarked for this circle by the state. No one in local government seems to know why. However, since the improvements are so unnecessary and stupid, the local residents don't want to spend the money on the proposed changes. What happens next is the local politicians will try to spend the money somewhere else since it has been designated as "theirs". The kicker is that it will take two years to consider changes to the earmark. Presumably if they wanted to use the funds to fix the unbroken circle they could start tomorrow. God help us.
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