Two Fort Worth's...

Downtown.

And everywhere else.

Way back in 2008, the Mayor and a council member stood on the side of the road and promised to fix streets in north Fort Worth if voters passed the combined bond.   

In 2010, residents were still asking WHEN?

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.

The expansion of North Fort Worth in the Alliance area and beyond has caused many issues for those citizens.  Last year, THE PEOPLE informed us all of the lack of emergency response to that area.

In this week's Star-Telegram, seems the story is still the same.  What happens when you do nothing?  It just gets worse. 

As usual, the comments tell the story. 

911 Update

Last week we were contacted by residents in North Fort Worth asking for ambulance help.  Tomorrow there is a meeting.  YOU should be there.  If YOU think it's not YOUR problem, think about this.  What if you had a wreck way out there in Fort Worth.  WHO would come?  WHEN???

There is a public meeting at the Ambulatory Board at 551 E Berry St. Fort Worth tomorrow morning at 10 am. They are supposed to discuss some kind of "pilot" program for our area but to my understanding it only consist of an ambulance North of 820 during "peak" times and rush hours. So I guess the rest of the time we are still on our own and one ambulance North of 820 does us no good, that's till 20 miles away.

911

Earlier this week we told you about the lack of emergency help in the far reaching annexed portion of Fort Worth.

Later that same day we received the following email.  WHO can help these folks in Fort Worth before it's literally too late?  Anyone in downtown maybe?  City Hall?  Incumbents running for council?  Outgoing mayor?  Anyone involved in the Trinity River Vision?  Anyone???

Point proven again. My neighbor's father in law thought he was having a stroke this evening around 7pm. From the time the 911 call was put in, it was almost 40 minutes later before Medstar showed up. They said they were the closest to us here across from the Northwest School and West of TMS. They were at Northside drive and Interstate 35. They also informed us if it had been 4:30 or so the wait time would have been longer.

Someone has to help.