{"id":2485,"date":"2010-08-13T13:26:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2010-08-13T13:28:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:28:57","slug":"cautionary-video-for-rooftop-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/08\/13\/cautionary-video-for-rooftop-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Cautionary video for Rooftop Highway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this new video from the Avett Brothers and instantly thought of the push for a &#8220;Rooftop Highway&#8221; between Watertown and Plattsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard about this road project, listen to David Sommerstein&#8217;s latest report on it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/14207\/quot-rooftop-highway-quot-new-cheerleader-and-fresh-coat-of-paint\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The important thing is this project has been the dream of thousands of people across northern New York. And these people have been dreaming about it for decades.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re now calling it &#8220;I-98&#8221; &#8211; despite pretty clear messages from the state that it&#8217;s not even a blip on the transportation department&#8217;s radar.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates for the Rooftop Highway are undaunted. And they&#8217;re going to the towns and villages that would be future exits on I-98 and asking for money to market the project.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20100813\/NEWS05\/308139977\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> in today&#8217;s <em>Watertown Daily Times<\/em>, the St Lawrence County town of Stockholm turned down the request for $2,500.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they&#8217;ve seen this video. The song is Head Full Of Doubt:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"330\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t43VgJ4U9_Q?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t43VgJ4U9_Q?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this new video from the Avett Brothers and instantly thought of the push [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}