Very disappointing news! I guess it is a good thing I basically forgot to go forward with buying a ticket when I was browsing the options just last week! The only positive I can think of is that viewing the Italian GP will be easier since I won't be staying at my Grandmas and trying to use her TV, as well as juggle time to make the event.
But honestly, I was getting so excited at the idea. Not only to see Indycar in the streets of Boston, but the support races as well. And since I was gonna get a pit pass, touch and smell the cars as well. Getting the whole sensory package. And for a very good price, all things considered.
If I understand right, the disagreement was that instead of 0 taxpayer dollars being spent towards it, there indeed would be funding partially through taxpayer dollars, even though the race organizers did not want that...There's more than 1 billionaire in the city, and at least 50-100 millionaires, yet nobody private nor public wants to help fund an entertaining race??
The only other legitimate concern I came across was the
excess PCBs crap in the soil in the area of Cypress St. they want to expand for the pits and whatnot. But even in the article it is quoted that if they don't dig, the concerns are not big.
Why the relationships between the organizers and the state were so bad, I don't exactly know, but it feels even more revealing to what was already a known problem with the MA government. The Harold article says John Casey had never even met Mayor Walsh, so that alone is incredibly unhelpful!
Seems that provisionally it is going to be moved to Providence, RI.....not too fond of it being farther away. Means if I convinced myself to go I gotta drive even further and stay at a hotel instead of my cozy grandma's!
Isn't Rhoad Island close to Nowhere USA as well?
Another good 2-3 hours, yeah. "Close".
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