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think:
I think the entire WTC rescue and recovery debacle was a fucking JOKE, save the sincere efforts of the workers who tried so damn hard to find people alive.
Once that was called off, and the backhoes were called in, it became a GOP clusterfuck, like everything seems to be, lately. Crony contracts, bullshit speed to do it NOW, not do it right, and a DEMAND to REPLACE those two (in my personal opinion) ugly buildings with another taller and uglier building, QUICKLY...toute suite, chop, chop!!!!!!! Speed was more important than doing it right.
But despite all these demands for speed, they can't come up with a building design that anyone thinks is reasonable (that spire thing is HIDEOUS, IMO), they can't get their shit together on an appropriate remembrance site, and they can't even bother to do a full fucking search of the area to find chunks of humans that are as big as RIB BONES?
WTF is WRONG with these people???
I think they ought to make a big chunk of the place a park, with a memorial feature on the footprint of the towers. They should have concerts there, and a playground. Show outdoor movies in the summer, make a place for skating in the winter. Make it a happy place where people WANT to visit, to remember, for now, but future generations can find a reason to go and take pleasure, and maybe remember learning about that fucked up day in their history class.
Put some affordable senior housing in one small corner, a little middle class housing in another corner, and maybe a few small shops along the perimeter. Fuck this big tower shit. Make it a NEIGHORHOOD. Try to make the flow of traffic down that way a bit more normal, too, to blend with the rest of the city....
The guy who owns the lease needs compensating. Compensate his ass, and do it fairly. Get it OVER with. If he squawks and tries to hold them at gunpoint, tell him to go fuck himself, and that if he doesn't take his piece and shaddup, they'll take the property by eminent domain.
Anyway, that's my take. I always thought those towers ruined the skyline of NYC. I know I'm in the minority in this opinion, but I remember NYC without them, and liked the look of it better without them, to be honest...
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