{"id":364,"date":"2007-05-30T19:13:05","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T23:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/05\/30\/va-citizens-have-had-enough\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T19:13:26","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T23:13:26","slug":"va-citizens-have-had-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/05\/30\/va-citizens-have-had-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Citizens Have Had Enough!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent a bit of time in rural Virginia this past week, and while driving there I noticed all of the effort that goes into mowing the highway medians. It struck me as a colossal waste of time and energy, and perhaps a perfectly sensible place for the perennially poor-mouthing VDOT<\/a> to make cuts. Surely there are more important things we can do with all of the manpower and money this pointless activity takes. Apparently, I am the only person in Virginia who thinks this way. From the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[S]omething far more insidious is plaguing Fairfax County<\/a>‘s suburban stretches: unmowed grass on public roadside land.<\/p>\n

[ . . . ]<\/p>\n

And with hundreds of complaints pouring into supervisors’ offices, that translates into one unified message: Something must be done!<\/p>\n

“This is all people are talking about,” said [Fairfax County Supervisor] Bulova, who agreed to traipse through waist-high grass in the median of Braddock Road on a recent weekday to demonstrate the problem. “It is so awful. It is unsafe. It is unsightly.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously. This is what gets people upset enough to bother calling their representatives. Maybe we should make median maintenance a National Guard activity. Then folks would care enough about them being in Iraq, and not here, to do something about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent a bit of time in rural Virginia this past week, and while driving there I noticed all of the effort that goes into mowing the highway medians. It struck me as a colossal waste of time and energy, and perhaps a perfectly sensible place for the perennially poor-mouthing VDOT to make cuts. Surely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t