a:1:{s:15:"field_blog_body";a:1:{i:0;a:2:{s:5:"value";s:2137:"Alaska has its famous &quot;Bridge to Nowhere&quot;. Washington D.C. has its &quot;Foreign Policy to Nowhere&quot;. Now Detroit has its &quot;<a href="http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/michigan/2014/10/11/critics-many-new-detroit-wheelchair-ramps-go-nowhere/17123483/">Sidewalks to Nowhere</a>&quot;:<br />
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<div>Along one half-mile stretch of crumbling sidewalks in Detroit, there are 52 new sets of wheelchair ramps. Some provide access to an empty lot where a middle school was razed in 2009. On many corners, sidewalks end after the ramps.<br />
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&quot;You drive down some of these streets, and there are blocks of no houses but pretty new curbs,&quot; said Sherman Hayes, 84, a retired nurse who lives nearby. &quot;Look at all these ramps to nowhere. It makes my blood boil.&quot;</div>
</blockquote>A man after my own heart, disgusted at the malicious waste of money. If I may make a suggestion:&nbsp; Don't vote for Democrats anymore. It's bad for the physical safety and mental stability of all human beings.<br />
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Back to the point. Look, rules are rules. And if there is something bureaucrats are good at, it is enforcing rules, regardless of if those rules have relevance to the current situation or not. Detroit has spent $30 million dollars so far on sidewalk ramps, and it will take $60 million more to finish the job. What else would Detroit use that money on? Food? Socks? Fire extinguishers? (Devil's Night is right around the corner.)<br />
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Of course, you couldn't actually make the changes to intersections where the sidewalks actually go somewhere, or perhaps do this in neighborhoods where there are people who need them, or where there are people at all. That would require a dangerous dose of common sense to ruffle the king-sized blanket of regulations that continue to smother us. I think, instead, what will happen is the continued &quot;investment&quot; of taxpayer money to fund lovely new handicap accessible walkway to cracked, weed-infested sidewalks to nowhere.<br />
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They're from the government, and they're here to help.<br />";s:6:"format";s:1:"2";}}}