The Mayport Median

For those who don't live in Jacksonville, or for those who do live in Jacksonville but are blissfully unaware of the goings-on in the city, the city has decided to build a median for Mayport Road. If you're an idiot and don't know what a median is, think of any major road you've been on. The median is that cemented thing in the middle of the street separating the two lanes that basically forces you to drive a mile and a half to find an opening and make a u-turn to get to wherever you want to go.

I'm assuming this median is now possible because of that stupid education amendment taking money away from the arts department. So while I'm stuck selling as much freaking candy as possible, the city has decided to make my life even more miserable with its stupid construction of the stupid median.

They're reasoning behind this median is that it'll help regulate traffic. This is the exact same reason they gave so long ago when they built A1A on Mayport Road, and traffic is now worse than ever.

I'd like to take this opportunity to tell everyone that while a median does control traffic, it does it in such a way that it basically directs them away from small businesses. I've never been a big supporter of small businesses, but at the same time I would never wish ill on someone's only source of income. Directing traffic towards already successful corporations such as Dunkin' Donuts and making it harder to get to small businesses will, eventually, bankrupt those businesses.

Without the median, the only people who go to these small businesses, who must be more expensive as they need some source of income, would be people who support small businesses. When the median makes it harder to get to these small businesses, eventually the line of thinking will be "Why am I going through the trouble of going to this (enter name of random small food store here), where everything is so much more expensive, when there's an opening in this median right next to a Food Lion, which is much cheaper than (that one place)?"

So basically, once it was decided to anal rape the arts department of schools by taking money away from them, making them work three times as hard to pay for the exact same things, the city decided to anal rape other people by inconveniencing them with the construction of this stupid median. It's inconvenient, unnecessary, and tedious, and I don't see why, out of all the options available after the arts' budget cut, they decided to go with this.