Mobile Development Thread

[pkp]

I don't really disagree with any of the Baldwin comments. However, this is a website substantially dedicated to urban living and most of Baldwin is as far from that as you can get. Also, Baldwin county has done very little to help the City of Mobile, unless you count all of the cars blocking up Government Street every afternoon polluting the air as they go home. This is the main reason I am opposed to the I-10 bridge. The traffic problems in the tunnel are not from "interstate travel". They are from commuters going back to the burbs, and I can frankly give a damn if they have to sit in traffic. I would be much more supportive of some sort of mass transit, but I have a feeling most Baldwin residents would refuse to ride it, since that is what "poor people" do. As I mentioned earlier, I have a residence there, but just don't like much about it except for the beaches. I have worked with the Chamber in the past with Envision Coastal Alabama, and quite frankly the elitism, and racism I saw with many Baldwin leaders was appalling. I won't get into it anymore than that - but it's basically like "you take all of the dirty industry and we will house your workers and take all of their money." That's not to say that there weren't similar issues with some of the smaller cities in Mobile County, we weren't talking about that. As a "part time" resident, I imagine I am entitled to an opinion.