Problems Plague Construction of the Costly Century Freeway
Move over, Jim and Tammy Bakker and Imelda Marcos! Here comes the Century Freeway Gang: bumbling bureaucrats, incompetent contractors, self-righteous empire builders, and other assorted moochers including more lawyers than should be permitted to gather on any one street corner.
Anyone can air-condition a dog house or buy a lot of shoes. But to drive $50 per day leased cars while supervising the construction of instant slums at over $100,000 per unit, all at taxpayer expense-- that takes talent!
And the best is yet to come! After 20 years there might actually be a new freeway--but not until the gang has litigated, negotiated, and taken a long lunch over the placement of every “Botts-Dot.”
FRED SINGER
Cypress
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