Comments on: A 3rd Crossing… to where? http://757hamptonroads.com/2008/02/06/a-3rd-crossing-to-where/ Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:11:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: mlsimons http://757hamptonroads.com/2008/02/06/a-3rd-crossing-to-where/comment-page-1/#comment-4 mlsimons Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:14:00 +0000 http://757hamptonroads.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/a-3rd-crossing-to-where/#comment-4 I thought I was the only one to ever think of consolidating the 7 cities. Wouldn't it just sound nicer to call it the "7 boroughs", maybe we can call the whole city "The Old Domionion", maybe I'm crazy I thought I was the only one to ever think of consolidating the 7 cities. Wouldn’t it just sound nicer to call it the “7 boroughs”, maybe we can call the whole city “The Old Domionion”, maybe I’m crazy

]]> By: Peter A. Stinson http://757hamptonroads.com/2008/02/06/a-3rd-crossing-to-where/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Peter A. Stinson Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:48:00 +0000 http://757hamptonroads.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/a-3rd-crossing-to-where/#comment-3 Oh, come on. We don't want real solutions. We want to be able to sit in our cars.<br/><br/>Switching subjects. Did you see the stuff in the Pilot about the country radio station that is registered as a Poquoson station but wants to put a tower in Portsmouth so they get better reach... only the FCC says that they have to reach coverage to 80% of the city to which the license has been let... and the Portsmouth tower wouldn't do that.<br/><br/>Of course, if we were all one city....<br/><br/>Ah, right. Impossible. I mean, come on. No American city has ever taken, say, five entities and formed a single massive city. Well, discounting New York, that is.<br/><br/>If they saw the value... ah, never mind. We're too uppity and provincial and will just remain second rate, or third rate, for the next several hundred years. Oh, come on. We don’t want real solutions. We want to be able to sit in our cars.

Switching subjects. Did you see the stuff in the Pilot about the country radio station that is registered as a Poquoson station but wants to put a tower in Portsmouth so they get better reach… only the FCC says that they have to reach coverage to 80% of the city to which the license has been let… and the Portsmouth tower wouldn’t do that.

Of course, if we were all one city….

Ah, right. Impossible. I mean, come on. No American city has ever taken, say, five entities and formed a single massive city. Well, discounting New York, that is.

If they saw the value… ah, never mind. We’re too uppity and provincial and will just remain second rate, or third rate, for the next several hundred years.

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