Dear MDOT,We appreciate your efforts to dress up Lansing's freeway interchanges. We wholeheartedly agree that visitors to our fine city should be treated to attractive vistas as they approach the Capitol dome, and that strollers on their daily constitutionals along Larch and Cedar Streets deserve sights that regale the eyes and warm the heart with a swell of hometown pride.
We really are touched by your conscientious attention to our aesthetic sensibilities.
But, MDOT, we have just one little tiny concern. It's the benches.
Yes, MDOT, we know Lansing is a little light on entertainment options and just a tad lacking in rewarding public spaces. We know Lansing loves cars (they loved them so much, they bulldozed R.E. Olds' mansion to build this very freeway). We know it's all part of America's love affair with the automobile. (BTW, that's kind of kinky and weird, but whatever). But come on now, MDOT, does Lansing really love cars THIS much?
Yes, MDOT, we know freeways deserve contemplation and reflection. We know they are a monumental feat of civil engineering that invests billions of our hard-earned taxpayer dollars in the name of personal freedom and choice (i.e., the freedom to either drive a car or drop out of productive society). We know Lansing is landlocked, so we can't very well sit on the dock of the bay. And we know we can't go to the downtown movie theatres to have fun, because they've all been demolished.
It's just that...oh, MDOT...it's just that we're not quite sure our first pick of entertainment on a leisurely Sunday afternoon is to sit on one of your fucking benches and stare at an off-ramp.
But thanks for trying, MDOT. You get an "A" for effort. (A big scarlet one.)
Warm regards,
WTF Lansing.
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