Imagine Fixing Our Streets!
August 5th, 2007, 4:38 pm · 3 Comments · posted by Joaquin
In the last two Sunday issues of The Brownsville Herald, a couple of city commissioners, Longoria and Atkinson, have gushed about Imagine Brownsville! Go get `em commissioners! Let’s make Brownsville a better place!
You know, this is all well and good. There will be meetings, yakkity-yaks, a few community-minded souls will show, and someone from the city will take notes. And, in about six months or so, maybe a year, some document will come out with a 20-year plan on making Brownsville a better place. But let’s face it, who’s going to pay any attention to it?
Lots of cities do these sorts of things. They’re mostly feel-goods. A mayor and city commissioners will puff their chests out and say, “See, we have a plan.” Y entonces que? Nada, most likely, just same old, same old. Look, it’s easy to be a cynic. The Internet and its blogs and yak-yaks like Chisme tend to be negative at times. But Brownsville and its residents, Chisme believes, don’t care much about something called Imagine Brownsville, with or without exclamation points.
Brownsville has soaring infrastructure issues, a fast-growing city with limited resources which requires the wise use of available dollars. People in Brownsville don’t need to hear fancy words at public forums to know what they want addressed first. Can you dudes at City Hall come up with a comprehensive plan to fix and maintain Brownsville’s streets and roadways? It’s issue #1, 2 and 3, and you city guys have got to know this. There is nothing that would improve the self-image of the locals more than an effective plan of action to improve and maintain Brownsville’s streets.
And, yet, what have we seen in the first weeks of the return of Mayor Pat Ahumada? The constant spats over Ahumada’s lame-brained idea to add $2 or $3 to monthly PUB bills so he can address his animal rights agenda has taken up all of the oxygen at City Hall lately. The idea has been roundly panned, but Mr. Bull-Headed Mayor won’t let it go.
Instead of Imagine Brownsville, how about Imagining A City Government That Will Address The City’s Most Pressing Issues With Effective Action And Planning? That would deserve an exclamation point. Do we really need a bunch of public meetings to hear the locals say what they want most is better streets? Shouldn’t they know that already?
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Yes “LETS HAVE A CORUPT FREE BROWNSVILLE” by making every Director of a CITY FUNDEDORGANIZATION prove that he or she is worth their salary and deserve to keep their job.
Every one kept screaming when Ernie “:El Zorro” Hernandez had his vending machines on the city properties, but that is just a drop in the bucket as to Having a thief as President of a City run organization.
Then take Larry “THE LAMB” Brown SPIA he has borrowed Millions of dollars for his department and has not paid it back in three years, and then he comes to a board meeting with no figures and cannot account for all the outstanding rents? And the City is still paying him? Come back Conrado all is forgiven.
Take the International development agency run by John “YES SIR” Sossi what has he done but spend millions for nothing HIS SALLARY ALONE would have helped many a struggling MOM AND POP Shop stay alive, and then why has so many MILLIONS yes I said MILLION been paid to keep the ITTC open.
In one year alone there would have been enough money saved to re pave every street in Brownsville, “O WHAT A DREAM”.
Elliot Ness
I am tired of complaining about the city streets,they keep giving you the run around.I’ve noticed streets like Mcdavit,Roosevelt,cleveland,arthur and security drive need repaving really bad,yet the city repaved streets like El Chapparral subdivison.Those streets did not need repaving,compared to the other streets.they would rather fix the better part of town and forget about the rest.I’d hate to wonder what the tourists are thinking about Brownsville with so many potholes.
I second the motion, Ms. Torres….McDAVITT street!!! PLEASE FIX IT, I can only imagine what it would be like if I lived in that neighborhood…poor residents. and you’re right, ms Torres, so many streets have been paved that didn’t need repaving and those that do, are overlooked, so what is it? Does it depend on the Commissioner that particular area belongs to? What a waste of taxpayer’s money!!!! Funny how just Old Port Iasbel road (when the new Wal-Mart was being built) did they work on the street…..somebody needs to listen, but who will it be…..