Once Proud
Lloydtown, Ontario - 2007

Not very long ago all levels of government built infrastructure on behalf of tax payers, and they took pride in doing it. Hospitals, schools, power plants, roadways, dams and bridges were all built in the glow of post war prosperity over a period of thirty years starting the late 1940's. Somewhere in the 1970's this building boom by and large stopped. Government leadership in this regard was replaced with governement middle management, and the legacy of infrastructure built by their predesessors was left to survive largely on it's own. This bridge over highway 400 is part of that legacy, and the coat of arms proudly displayed on bridges built in this era is disintigrating similar to the bridge it is attached to.

This image is symbolic of the decaying infrastructure we are surrounded by throughout North America. Recent events in both Quebec and Minnesota where bridges built in this era collapsed, is testimony of this decay and mis-management. Ontarians once took pride in our steps into the future and took the time to brand those achievements with a large, elaborate and detailed coat of arms. Today that symbol is stained, cracked and crumbling.

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