Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Recreation NASCAR track approved in Missouri
Posted by Max Brantley on Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:16 AM
Did anybody really believe developers of a proposed NASCAR track had any interest in Arkansas except to leverage approval of their track in Missouri?
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Thank god we dodged that smelly bullet. Just what we need in five years -- AEDC owning an abandoned would-be NASCAR track.
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Does the track dump traffic in to Arakansas? I was in Arizona when they first started NASCAR at Phoenix International and it dumps onto I-10 and tied uo the side roads until 2 am after the afternoon race was over because I-10 is already a very busy roadway but dumping 110,000 cars anywhere at one time will screw up the area for hours.
At Bristol, they actually make I-81 three lanes south and 1 lane north south of the entrance and three lanes north and 1 south north of the exit and it was still 2 am and the trafiic was bumper-to-bumper in Johnson City where we were visiting. We actually went to teh race but parked in a handi-cap area and didn't stay for the end but went back and watched it on TV.
Darn, we're too late with our economic development slush fund! We coulda been contenders!!!!
I HATE TAXES BUT I LOVE ME SOME ECONOMIC SLUSH FUND FOR CORPORATIONS.
THE TRICK IS GETTING SINGLE MOMS AND OTHER MINIMUM WAGE NON-PRODUCERS TO PAY FOR IT.
THANK GOD STODOLA HAS THAT FIGURED OUT.
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