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- Life resumes today!
After a grueling two weeks of having no access to the beloved West Shoreway, the barrels and signs have disappeared. The storm is gone.
Yes, yes, that beloved section of State Route 2 jutting westward outta downtown has reopened. To the casual news reader of Cleveland (and specifically west side commuters, duh), it’s as though He himself hath risen. Earlier this morning, in fact, several lost souls were seen hunched over and shaking, putting depraved lips to long-absent asphalt in a gesture of love. It was, in a word, beautiful.
Now can we puh-leeze go back to bitching about normal things like Police Chief Michael McGrath’s vacant stare and those gawddamned RTA bus drivers’ bloodlust?
This article appears in Jun 12-18, 2013.
Cleveland is being helped back on the map by the movie industry and it will only get better for everyone if we recognize that our little lives of being late to work or to an appointment to talk about the same lame shit you talked about last time with the same lame brain who thinks the world is all about THEM. Tiny thinkers of all cities and towns and not just our beloved Cleveland. Movies and directors and writers are becoming very interested in Cleveland and not just because it is cheaper than Hollywood, but because we have great background and everyday characters who think like decent city folk think.
Look, the road closure sucked ass, but now it’s over. No one said it would be easy and perfectly convenient to get Cleveland back on its feet. This is one of those things where everyone just has to suck it up and make the sacrifice for the good of the city.