WHO pays?
YOU.
Read the Letters to the Editor in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
The cost of streetcars
"Streetcars crucial to Trinity River Vision" (Nov. 15) -- but for what reason?
Some would insist they are needed for economic development rather than transportation. So why don't the developers pay for them?
The streetcar issue will be discussed in a public hearing at the Convention Center on Thursday. On Dec. 7, the City Council may vote on a starter route costing $93 million.
The piercing question is: How much will this TRV add-on ultimately cost the public?
TRV's proposed cost was $360 million in 2004 and has ballooned to near $1 billion. The purpose of the TRV project is economic development, not flood control.
When the proposed additional streetcar routes are added, that cost will also approach $1 billion. The funding on both projects is a gamble.
Dec. 7 may be "a day that will live in infamy" for the attack on the public treasury as well as the attack on Pearl Harbor.
-- Clyde Picht, Fort Worth
We need a road trip for the people of Fort Worth(less). Planes, trains, bikes, boats, skateboards, or whatever's available (except charter flights since Kay G., mayor Gasfather, and Chesapeake's shadow city rulers will need transportation to bust some champaigne bottles--hopefully not en route). Destination: OZ because apparently just about all of us need one of the following: brains, hearts, courage, backbones, voiceboxes, and even a "pair" made from whatever material, just as long as they help with the chemicals needed to stand up together --not in isolated instances like Clyde Picht, Louise McBee, Don Woodard, and all--IN A MASSIVE PUBLIC DISPLAY OF FREE SPEECH TO SAY "STOP WITH THIS NONSENSE. EVEN IS ENOUGH!" WE'RE SICK AND TIRED OF THIS @#$% AND ARE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE (TO BORROW FROM THAT CLASSIC MOVIE).
ReplyDeleteWriting thoughtful letter and passionate editorial pieces are not enough. Thousands of citizens with their kids and grandkids (who will pay for all the current drunken spending of taxpayer money) in tow marching around downtown and stopping at city hall, tarrant water district office, TRV suites, etc.
If not anything, I'm pleading that Santa gives kids of all ages the ability to smell B.S. Not the kind that waft around the Will Rogers Complex in January, either.
Otherwise, a one way ticket out of here will do. Oz or not.