I think I figured out why the road took the route it did rather than a direct route across no man's land. It was to bring the interstate much closer to these three towns shown here. I think guvmint did something good for these communities out in the middle of nowhere those many years ago. Something that has helped them survive and probably grow a bit as well.
If you click on this picture directly in the middle is a yellow line that is one mile.
Now they probably don't like guvmint anymore out there anymore because socialism is not good for their brand of Amerika ya see.
Often as not, what people mean by "wasteful government spending" is spending that doesn't benefit them right now in a way they can understand.
ReplyDeleteThey don't understand much of anything, so almost anything could look bad and wasteful to them. This is what happens when families get stranded on the prairie for decades upon decades, winding up with nobody to breed with except themselves.
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