{"id":57209,"date":"2024-06-18T00:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T00:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57209"},"modified":"2024-06-18T00:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T00:02:57","slug":"more-on-the-monstrosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57209","title":{"rendered":"More on the monstrosity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>That partially built apartment complex around the corner and down the street from my Princeton home just doesn&#8217;t leave my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I want it gone. I no longer want it to be finished. Why? Traffic! That&#8217;s it, man.<\/p>\n<p>You see, the 360-unit apartment monstrosity sits alongside US Highway 380, a multilane highway that already is congested beyond reason. The city is hoping to bring in a gigantic retail complex not far from where the apartment complex now sits fallow.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Transportation wants to expand 380, adding more traffic lanes and, thus, making the traffic woes even worse.<\/p>\n<p>I can remember when the Farmersville City Council nixed an apartment complex near the Brookshire&#8217;s grocery story complex some years back. The reason for the rejection? Traffic. Council members were concerned what the increased traffic would do to that area. Thus, I now wonder what the Princeton City Council must have been thinking when it approved the proposal to build the huge complex next to Wal-Mart.<\/p>\n<p>The complex appears to be headed for the trash heap. I have no proof of that belief. I just believe it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just as good. We do not need any more traffic congestion to give us headaches as we do battle with the legendary D\/FW traffic woes.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That partially built apartment complex around the corner and down the street from my Princeton home just doesn&#8217;t leave my mind. I want it gone. I no longer want it to be finished. Why? Traffic! That&#8217;s it, man. You see, the 360-unit apartment monstrosity sits alongside US Highway 380, a multilane highway that already is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57209\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on the monstrosity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9150,9210,4936,8497],"class_list":["post-57209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-farmersville","tag-princeton","tag-txdot","tag-us-380"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57210,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57209\/revisions\/57210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}