It sounds like the Lincoln Way boondoggle is proceeding full speed ahead. They already turned south Duff into a parking lot and decided to do the same for Lincoln Way. You know something that disruptive, something that expensive, something that stupid, could have been put up as a referendum for the people to decide. But then, that’s why Council elections are held on odd years, you don’t WANT the public’s input.

Only in Ames could they be stupid enough to take a 4-lane highway and make it into 2 lanes and a bike path. Just incredible. They have it set up for parallel parking on a U.S. Highway. They are that stupid. One lane of traffic and its all going to come to a screeching halt because Grandma has to parallel park on Lincoln Way. These people are morons, and I can’t leave. I’ll die with these stupid people. At least I don’t have to be buried here. Stupid for eternity would not go well.

Everything will be fine on a Sunday morning. But not during weekday rush hour. They never bothered (or cared) that when they did that at 16th & North Duff, 4 o’clock in the afternoon saw that stop sign saw traffic backed up for 3 blocks. When there had been no backlog with 4 lanes.

Modern city planning has become a torture test to see how much citizens can endure, not to improve their lives. They are going to use taxpayer dollars to make our lives worse. Ames has always been full in on Agenda 21/30/40. Any idiotic idea that comes down the pike they’re for.

Part of it is that bureaucratic fear that if they don’t spend all the money, they’d have to give a tax refund. They take the roads that cars paid for, and give them to bikes.