Columbia, S.C. Is Directionally-Challenged
We already knew the boneheads who run South Carolina’s capital city couldn’t count for sh*t (that’s why they’re paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to an accountant to figure out just how big the city deficit is), but we had no idea they were also into giving people bad directions.
No really.
How else does one explain a spiffy new sign for Columbia’s “City Center” that points people in precisely the opposite direction of three places they probably wouldn’t even want to go anyway?
Specifically, the sign confuses the location of Columbia’s two entertainment districts – the supposedly upscale “Vista” and the more student-friendly “Five Points.”
The sign also points tourists in the exact opposite direction of its so-called “Historic Houses,” which we’re guessing is a reference to the Robert Mills House and the Hampton Preston Mansion, neither of which has been visited by a paying tourist since 1982.
Well, excluding mandatory public school field trips.
Alright, alright … we’re kidding, but not by much.
Obviously, we don’t spend a lot of our time covering city politics (we leave that in the capable hands of the guys over at Pulse of Columbia) but this is one we couldn’t resist …
Oh, and these are the same morons slated to get hundreds of millions of dollars in the government “stimulus” package …
Comments
By Snead on February 16th, 2009 at 9:36 am
You left out the best parts: Not only did the city pay $250,000 for these signs, they hired a company from Charlotte to install them.
http://lightscamerasnead.blogspot.com/2008/06/columbia-sc-land-of-awesomeness.html
By Mab on February 16th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Snead — “who will pay for the mistake” ?!?
Does it seem as if some planning buffoons spread the $$$ around by deliberately doing things wrong the first time?
Or am I the only one wired with conspiracy-think?