23734: (reply) Jepiem: Re 23699 -Tallest building in Haiti

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Jepiem@aol.com
To: corbetre@webster.edu
Subject: Re 23699 -Tallest building in Haiti
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From: Mat Jay
 jepiem@aol.com

What a shame! Petion Ville used to be a charming residential town. For the
last
two decades it has been transformed into a wreck of a town. After they had
destroyed Port au Prince by neglect, on to Petion Ville where all the
businesses moved to, transforming all the lovely homes into cement blocks
with
holes for businesses. Of course the populace followed, crowding the street
and
dumping garbage everywhere. The city was never built for that, and of
course
all the infra structure was destroyed. Public markets everywhere, big
homes on
the sides of the surrounding mountains or hills, and of course the
shantytowns
(which is what everyone sees and complains about without realizing that
the
destruction started from the top by those who have the power and the
money. The
poor gathered to get some of the money, and not having any land of their
own,
they squatted on the sides of the hill. Now the tallest building. I bet
there
are no drains for all the dirty water that's going to come pouring out of
that
and no adequate parking and access of course will be ten times worse than
it is
now. Petion Ville's street can barely handle two lanes of traffic, and the
sidewalks are already taken over by the street merchants.
Will the raping of this land ever stop?
Math Jay