Rockford Speedway
Rockford, Illinois
This speedway was built in the early 1950's in the country to make sure it wasn't a disturbance to anyone. That was back when people actually had common sense. Now urban sprawl has closed in, and houses are within a quarter mile and neighbors are complaining about the noise disturbance, traffic, and fumes.
A moment of silence for the unintelligent please.
Okay, now, what the heck?!? What were these people thinking when they looked out the backyards of their potential homes and saw a speedway there? Now they have the nerve to complain, and want the track shut down. What happened to using common sense and not building residential housing near a race track, and then the ultimate in stupidity of actually buying a home there? Good luck selling...you deserve to be lulled to sleep by the sounds of roaring engines, drunk fans, and crashing metal. I don't feel sorry for you.
As a side note: If you ever get a chance to go to the trailer races at the Rockford Speedway, by all means GO. You will have the best time. I guarantee it, and you don't have to be a hillbilly to appreciate it, although it helps.
6 comments:
Regrettably, when I lived near Rockford (Rockton) I never managed to see the trailer races. The Speedway was a great night out, though. I hear that we have trailer races in Snohomish County, WA, where the course has a criss-cross, leading to fantastic crashes!
Can you believe that Rockford is now considered to be within commuting distance to Chicago. Illinois is becoming more like California each day. The Loop is already converting into RE condo hell.
Great blog, I love the pix and the attitude. I have half a mind to create one very much like this, but with photos of the various RE horrors I have witnessed here in bubbalicious Seattle.
Remember, the local municipality had to explicitly authorize each developer to build closer and closer to the speedway. Hence, if the same municipality tried to close it down, the speedway should take them to court on that basis. There have been some successes in this regard, whereby some states demand that any denial of land use from recent legislation be suitably compensated to the landowners.
It's the same thing with farms. You'll see new developments (that are too dense in my opinion) built right next to farms that have been there for many decades. It should be obvious to the people that move there that the farm was right nearby. Then the new residences complain about the smell. Hello!?! Who was there first, mutherfugger?
This is the exact same issue with Raceway Park here in Central Jersey. For decades, there was this noisy dragstrip in the middle of nowhere called Englishtown, NJ. Now Englishtown and the locales directly adjacent are a McMansion hell, and the residents are fighting to close the track sue to noise and traffic issues. Hello!?!?! When you chose to live there did you not see the signs for "Raceway Park" in front of your house?
I lived in Monterey CA in 1995 and worked at Laguna Seca raceway that year. I watched as people bought or built homes on the hills beyond the track and then proceeded to complain about the noise. It's udderly amazing the stupidity of people. How many world renowned race events are held there each year??? Throw in the SCCA events and other small stuff and that track has something running on it every other day!
Used to get calls all the time at the Air Force Academy from people who complained that the airplanes were noisy. We weren't allowed to ask them "You didn't notice that huge runway before you bought the house?"
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