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Politicians get real about ground zero rebuilding
| By the 10th anniversary, not one of five office towers will be finished and neither will the memorial. |
The signature skyscraper that replaces the World Trade Center is nearly ready to move in. The memorial to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is a year away from opening. A skyscraper damaged by the falling towers was taken down years ago. Four other office buildings are rising.
Those were either the bold, or impossibly overconfident predictions years ago for what ground zero might look like in 2008, instead of the fenced-off, sunken construction site that sits in the middle of downtown Manhattan nearly seven years after the attack.
| Generally, the more involvement in a project by politicians, the slower it moves. |
By the 10th anniversary, not one of five office towers will be finished and neither will the memorial, said a report last week by the site's owner, the most pessimistic official account yet of stalled efforts to realize an ambitious vision meant to defy terrorists who destroyed the trade center.
| It was many years ago, back in the late Paleolithic, that I came to the conclusion that politicians don't feel disgrace like we the people do. Maybe that's why they go into politix and we go into debt. |
Posted by: Fred 2008-07-06 |
