David’s Journal

Here we go. Just the sort of thing to bring me back to my blog.

A celebration!

“Marquette University students and staff celebrated Wednesday after their namesake freeway interchange project reopened a key route to the downtown campus,” writes Larry Sandler of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Yes, it’s true. The Wisconsin Ave. bridge over Interstate 43 in downtown Milwaukee was shut down as part of the Marquette Interchange reconstruction project, a big mess of a project I was lucky to miss out on by strategically moving to California (where they wisely let their roads rot and turn to gravel, before thinking about planning to think about replacing them).

This particular bridge closure was bad news to Marquette students trying to get to the Boston Store, or other Westown institutions like one of several government buildings.

But, fortunately, the bridge is reopened. Sandler writes:

“Students living in nearby Straz Hall have hosted bridge-related events to hail the reopening, [Toby Peters, the university's associate vice president for administration] said.”

But this story turns tragic. You see, all the festivities that were planned didn’t quite happen as planned.

The celebrating students, continued Sandler, had “to convert a card tournament to a game of euchre when they realized that none of them actually knew how to play bridge.”

D’oh.