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jayjay
Citizen
Username: Jayjayp
Post Number: 528
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 9:53 pm: | 
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Did you catch the Calabrese/Taylor act as they described the altered vision for Sloan Street to the citizen who professed dismay at the installation of Tau in place of the gazebo. Someone needs to explain how Tau is preferable to the gazebo, as part of the entrance to SOPAC, which is on the other side of the tracks. It makes no sense at all. You have a gazebo which people can wait under in the rain, and can walk through, vs. a big black monolith stuck in the middle of the plaza.
And then there was Taylor talking about how the underpass was going to be a "mall" with places to grab a drink, etc. Since when? And who is going to bear the cost of that? According to Calabrese, we are. Ok, Mr. VP, where are the plans and cost breakouts for that? And doesn't that all belong to NJ Transit. Are we expected to pay for what is theirs?
And then there is the obelisk, which according to Calabrese, NJ Transit had insisted on. Well who paid for that, who owns it, and what grandiose plan exists for it. (Aside: Maybe we need a park for tasteless are the town has purchased. In it would be the orange on a pole, the spider by Dunkin Donuts, the obelisk, and the soon to be fabricated Tau. )
But according to Mr. Calabrese we are an "arts sensitive community". As such, here is what our arts-sensitive BOT has achieved. They have papered our historic village hall with vinyl embossed wallpaper and green floor tiles, and let the outside go to pot. We take the grand Baird Center and turn it into a mess inside. We tear down historic buildings like the flat iron building. We turn the interesting skate house by the pond into a glorified storage shed for bocce equipment. We let our firehouse renovation go on for years and create a trailer park alongside it to house our firemen. How truly art-sensitve thou art Mr. Calabrese et al.
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SOrising
Citizen
Username: Sorising
Post Number: 187
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 6:57 am: |
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jayjay, maybe its the hour, but I couldn't help laughing at your post. These guys don't have a plan other than a phantasmagoria of whimsical impulses. Otherwise, they wouldn't keep tearing out and redoing Sloan street with so many construction pits in town like some bored homeowner who has to redecorate every season.
They obsess about what doesn't need work because they are stymied and desperately impotent about what does. Expensive meddlings and diletante dabblings are apt descriptions of their "plans." The rest of us should not enable their despairing practices. |
Cash M. Eout
Citizen
Username: Parkingsux
Post Number: 366
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 8:06 am: |
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It's about hiding money. Lot's of money over many years. There is no other explanation, IMHO. |
mjh
Supporter
Username: Mjh
Post Number: 432
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 8:57 am: |
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..."phantasmagoria of whimsical impulses"
That's really good! |
SOrising
Citizen
Username: Sorising
Post Number: 192
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 3:24 pm: |
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Well, mhj, attribute it to phantasms ebbing the hour, dreams fleeing before daybreak. The naivetes of a slumbering village, its dews of promise burnt by the sun. |
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