This time, Mayor Moncrief...again.
Obviously two years ago he made a PR appearance on the side of the road and promised voters if they approved a $150 million bond, the road would get fixed. Is it? No, it's not. And the city says it could be years, or they could add yet another fee to the water bill to pay for it. Sound familiar?
An article about broken promises and broken roads includes those three little words that we keep hearing - Trinity River Vision. If you can't fix your roads, you can't fix your infrastructure, you can't hold City Council meetings because you can't pay your employees, and you can't keep your promises - why would you ask your constituents to pay for a billion dollar boondoggle? Oh, that's right, so your friends will profit while the taxpayers foot the bill.
Read the article from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. You can't AFFORD to miss it.
Far north Fort Worth residents aren't so sure. They point out that downtown projects have already gotten their share of funding, while roads for their area have languished.
"I pretty much guarantee it went to the Trinity River Vision bridges, which is exactly what we said would happen," said Shirley Gansser, who analyzed the city's financial data for the North Fort Worth Alliance.
Residents' concerns about the Trinity River project prompted Moncrief to make his appeal in 2008.
The alliance wanted the city to split the bond election into two propositions, one for roads and one for the Trinity River bridges. Moncrief appealed to voters to support the whole package, and it passed with 68 percent of the vote.
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