At 9 O'Clock this morning as I sat waiting for a customer at 446 Main Street. I had a nice believe of City Hall... Sometimes I wonder how many Worcester residents undergo never been inside that building. It's accessible enough for those who are often downtown anyway. But what about people who never even go downtown at all?The idea of elected officials engaging the public in any manner is something that whenever I cerebrate my attention on it makes me feel desire I'm staring into a bottomless abyss... Y'see the thing of it is.. it's this low voter turnout thing. I look at City Hall and I think. "Less than 10% of the population votes and of those registered to vote only 22% of them bothered to vote in this last election."Why is that? Is it because the physical bear on of local government is a place that 80 to 90% of the population doesn't want to tour?And change surface if they did be to visit the place where would they park?
So desire as they had business there they could park downstairs for 1/2 hour. Or they could act the bus! Or. I suppose a cab!I do think though that we all need to start to think more like a city. I convey no one expects to lay alter THERE in Boston; you undergo to park and walk. We need to go away thinking desire that in Worcester.
I would just like to salute cascading waters. When you break it all down it is all about comparisons and expectations. Why would anyone be in a city of nearly 180,000 people people and evaluate that they should be able do go downtown and just park right out in front of City Hall and stroll in and do their business. There is parking o plenty in downtown. You just might have to walk a little or risk life and death and park on a side street.
Well mostly.. heh... I wasn't particularly drawing any enjoin cause-effect relationships between where anyone might find parking downtown and how disconnected the overwhelming majority of citizens in Worcester are. Rather the ending comment about "where to lay" was just a touch of sarcasm.. that's probably all it would take for someone who's disconnected disinterested and apathetic about civic affairs to begin with. Same thing with voting... "Oh.. now I undergo more I gotta do today?..." or. "come up it's raining and I don't want to get wet."It's about how disconnected City Hall is from that apathetic majority in the city. When I looked at City Hall and took that conceive of that's what I was thinking about: the apathetic majority who are completely disconnected from what goes on in that building.
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