How is the money going to hotels/restaurants going to make its way to the landowners responsible for privately maintaining the roads?

I grew up in Vermont and I don’t think most people are understanding what Class 4 Roads actually are.

Ford has been talking a lot of shit about their environmental ambitions, all factories on renewable energy by 2035, eliminating single use plastics by 2030, 200 acres of sustainable landscaping around its corporate properties...

I’d never have guessed that an activity that can summarized as “see all this beautiful, pristine nature? Let’s wreck it by driving several-ton vehicles all over it!” would have a problem with being respectful.  

This.

yeah.... as much as i’d like to say “chill out, it’s a public road” i can absolutely understand the hazards and issues it may bring.

While the Class 4 roads are public roads, the town doesn’t want to deal with off-roaders and any potential shenanigans and damage.

I’m more confused than anything else, is this the message you honestly think you’re conveying in your initial comment?  If so....man you need to work on your writing skills.

I’m done...

There’s a whole article up there about the system. Just because you don’t acknowledge it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist.

Go fuck yourself.

I come from a country with direct democracy (meaning, we get to vote on pretty much everything). There are no voter ID laws on the books there, instead every voter gets the voting utensils sent to their home to be filled out and either placed in a ballot box leading up to the election or sent via the postal service…

No, but those things arent guaranteed by the Constitution though. And the issue is that they are very restrictive on what IDs you can use. Most states, you cant use a college student ID card, even though you go through a similar process to obtain them. It is far too hard in this country to get an actual state ID or…

If they made the IDs freely and *easily* available to all, I’d have no issue with it.

Thanks for writing this. While living in St. Louis, I have also observed similar ways in which infrastructure was intentionally designed to destroy black neighborhoods. I-70 between downtown and I-270 cuts through several formerly thriving areas. I-55 south of downtown cut through several Native American mounds. A…

It’s not false. Detroit and and the suburbs run two separate systems. Also, some suburban communities have opted out of the bus service specifically because of unproven fears that the “poor Detroit blacks” would take buses to their communities, rob them, and then go back into the “lawless” city. This is a bullshit…

Only advertise plots for sale, after the I is razed, offline and in black residential and business areas with hardcopy adverts in shop windows. It won’t bring back those that have gone, and it won’t totally stop corporate vulture developers, but it will boost black participation as it will reach them first before the…

Zoning and land-use policy too. Oh boy is that a lot of good “racially neutral” policies that have incredibly disparate effects.

100% honest story with zero bullshit. Thank you for writing this.