Saturday, February 20, 2010

Erie Canal

What do you do with a canal, to the moon

When the railroad gets you there a lot more soon

You'd rather drive your car anyway,

And you don't want to go from Buffalo to Albany

But let's say you're a nuclear power plant

And you need massive concrete containers for your spent fuel rods

You'd do a lot worse than ship them via the Erie canal

So you call up Rob Goldman at the New York State Marine transporation authority

because

If you

What do you do with a canal to the moon

When your town or city is past its industrial boom