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>before (winter) vs after (summer)
>dubiously taking credit for a huge amount of economic output without showing work
>not that it matters but the two shots were clearly taken from different directions so it'
Typical of the kind of propaganda that /n/edditors fall for.
I'm not going to deny it's an improvement. The difference is that it's more appropriately viewed as the next stage in evolution of a town like this, which has seen insane growth over the last 50 years as mestizos have streamed over the border. Literally a 560% increase in population since 1970, going from 31,000 to 173,000. 1971 is when Route 14 was moved from the Sierra highway (red line) to the Freeway location west of the city. The city is still dominated by standard multi-lane thoroughfares. There are massive parking lots and box stores (Wal Mart, Home Depot, etc) over by the freeway.
This is a case where city that's suddenly became solidly medium-size decided it wanted to invest a nicer downtown than the one they inherited from the small rural bedroom town that used to be there.
