By Curmudgeon
The Salt Lake Tribune is running a story today about the recent trip UTA ran to Europe for several Utah mayors to learn about street car systems. Ogden's very own Mayor Godfrey appears in the story, with comments that should absolutely not be missed. For example [from the story]:
Bordeaux, France, demonstrated a new technology that uses a third rail that is electrified only as the car passes over it, eliminating the risk of pedestrian electrocutions. Other trains on the tour packed batteries, allowing cities to dispense with overhead wires in places, such as city-center plazas. Those technologies proved persuasive to Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey, who said he doesn't want overhead wires in his city.The Mayor who pitched the city into some turmoil for several years, touting a gondola to run on wires suspended from stanchions all the way from downtown up to Harrison, then along Harrison to WSU, now announces he "doesn't want overhead wires in his city."
Parody is dead.
