Hurry Up and Wait
by Lionel Bascom — November 25th, 2006 — 1 comment
There’s another predictable scheduling snag in the long range plans for the World Trade Center Memorial. The current plans call for the memorial to be completed in 2009. Delays in this massive World Trade Center project are one of the things we can count on as we track the progress of the many construction projects at Ground Zero. In an editorial posted by the Downtown Express, the blog notes that timetables and schedules in redevelopment plans are the one certainty we can count on. “Delays have been one of the few certainties, and milestones end up getting reached whenever they get reached. So maybe these observers aren’t too concerned that the Port Authority plans to finish building the World Trade Center memorial in 2009, at which time the thousands of tour buses driving to the memorial can begin idling for two years, when the Port plans to finish building an underground garage where they can park.”
In fact, the plans call for the memorial to be completed in three years and the garage in five. That the plan, not a delay or a mistake in scheduling. Hurry up and wait.
12:40 AM in Uncategorized, The Construction, Ground Zero, Related Stories, Freedom Tower News
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Chalk one more win for the oil companies! One day, our great nation will elect a president who actually will stand up against the oil manufacturing conglomerate and place our national interests as incentive to move the country forward. Perhaps, it will take another country to do it first, so once again, we can play ‘catch up.’
In my wildest dream, okay, one of my wildest dreams, the following is the scenario: the United States becomes a world leader in advancement of the fine technologies that utilize the beautiful natural gifts we all have been given, those powers of solar, wind, water, and the human brain.
Then, I awaken to read that plans for building the new World Trade Center include the dispersing of thousands of pollutant particles from idling buses for a minimum of two years into the atmosphere surrounding this great memorial, while members of Congress and CEO’s of major corporations idly watch the gifts of/for the human spirit dissipate through a tumultuous vacuum of incompetence.
Jeanne · November 25th, 2006 at 9:07 am