Fixing Mercer Street
Sep 25th, 2007 by Michael Max
I don’t get it.
Mercer Street down by the south end of Lake Union is a ruffian of potholes, bumps and disgravity. It has been that way for as long as I can remember, and I can remember at least 20 years of driving that stretch of road.
Imagine my surprise to see Mercer Street with it’s top level of pavement scraped off, and ready for resurfacing. Oh, that would be the west section of Mercer Street, not the bump infested east section.
Maybe it like our health, we work on the stuff that is doable but does not take much effort. Easy to put a smooth gloss on the uptown, but that annoying section of town that we drive through, but don’t inhabit. That we ignore.
Inhabiting our health, especially the places we don’t want to. Usually for those, we require a little help!
Sounds an awful lot like our “health” care system… not at all about health, but real big on appearances.
DrD