(Ed.'s Note: If a picture is worth 1,000 words, this picture speaks volumes about the priorities of the City of Brownsville toward its citizens. If ever a project qualifies as one to improve the quality-of-life, bus shelters and a place for weary workers to sit waiting for the bus would be it.
Yet, the money continues flowing elsewhere and every time Bus-Metro is questioned about the shelters, they promise that they're coming...sometime.
The Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation is funded by a one-quarter cent of sales taxes, yielding about $5 million for investment in quality-of-life projects.
The BCIC took a hard hit from the Brownsville Sports Park which has been unable to generate the funds necessary for its maintenance and upkeep. As a result, the city has had to step in and shell out funds for its continued operations.
On the city commission side, every time that there is an issue of Certificates of Obligation that includes transportation projects like street improvements, an amount equal to 10 percent of that has to go to hike-and-bike trials championed by commissioner Rose Gowen.
To date, millions have been funneled to those pet projects while working ladies like the woman in the picture - who make up the majority of city sales tax payers and a majority of those chipping in for the BCIC's annual $5 million - have to use the ground to rest their weary bodies to wait for the BUS.
But look at the projects that get funded by BCIC. You have the Beerfest, the Gringo de Mayo, Una Noche en Garibaldi, all these simple drunken bacchanals and entertainment for the city's self-described elites.
Those, we're afraid, comprise their funding priorities, not the needs of the average working person like the woman above.
18 comments:
The needs of the average working citizen? Only the poor ride the bus, Montoya! What - I'm supposed to pay so that they can get to work? That's on them!!!!
Is there no Uber/Lyft in Brownsville? Sounds like you have a ready market for some enterprising fellow or babe. Wow.
juan que gachos and now we know why the City is in such disarray, CM Bernal where are the priorities to improve the quality of life for its citizens? No where right except to line your pockets cool arrow. Well juan i cant give him all the blame, he comes from a small town La Villa Texas, small town vision-if any, small town politics, small town mentality, and now he is playing in the major leagues but as we have seen for the last year, he cant keep up. oh well. Back to the drawing board.
The racists have hit El Panson Barton's blog, Juan. They're calling us greasers now.
In endorsing Trump’s blatant effort to delay and obstruct the impeachment process, the House Republicans are demonstrating that there are now virtually no ends to which they won’t go in order to protect Trump, and no arguments they won’t make. Of course, that no longer surprises us. But we shouldn’t lose sight of how shocking and outrageous it is.
Harvard University sparked outrage among students and scholars all over the country this week after it denied tenure to Lorgia García Peña, a beloved Latinx studies professor, and the only Latina professor on the tenure track at the Ivy League school.
More than 3,000 grad students and scholars have signed a letter demanding that the school reverse its decision, and about 50 students held a sit-in at University Hall on Monday evening in support of García Peña—and to call on Harvard to create a formalized ethnic studies program, reported The Harvard Crimson.
Arlene Dávila, the founding director of the Latinx Project at New York University, said the decision is a “sign of incredible disrespect” and “speaks to a larger disregard of Latina Studies” because so many senior scholars in her field wrote letters of support to Harvard before the decision was finalized.
2.20 pm- wow i thought that was only in the 1970s when all that discrimination was abound. Here we are almost 500 years later and it still going on. Chiguagua
COB IS TO BUSY SPENDING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR BIKE AND HIKE TRAILS, NO TIME TO PUT BUS SHELTERS FOR OLD, YOUNG, DISABLED, COB COMMISSIONERS WANT THEIR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO.
Ethnic Studies......No la chingues.......Take some real classes
TRUMP 2020!
I'm not tired of winning yet!
San Benito has bus shelters and the bus arrives once a day. FUCK Brownsville politics.
Whose VOTE do you want the residentes of E. Frontón or the city of Brownsville to decide on street name. City of Brownsville POLITICIANS are a disgrace and a VOTE of no confidence. Credit to dirty trey and galonsky. Galonsky owns half of Brownsville you do not see her wanting her name on EVERY CORNER. Wish her the best for a better Brownsville.
"bacchanals"
No shame you people wanted gringos on the cob commission now they have you eating crow that's what you deserve bola de pendejos learn the hard way NOW VOTE THEM OUT. Y nomas un pendejo con nombre hispano y voto con los gringos CULO...
It is the end result of the new mayor, and new/old commissioners!!
i saw recycled trees left in tact covered with dry palm leaves as their bus huts in the city of San Antonio. What a great idea. low cost, but will prolly take COB workers weeks to complete just one. so either way, we will blow our money.
They'll use those dry up tress to start cooking on a grill so se hagan pendejos bad idea down here, never happen...
spent the the taxpayers monies on needed necessities NOT bike trails and other gimme program estupidos
Brownsville CM No ese Bernal so what are you going to do on this bus shelter matter? anything? or just pass the buck like always when you were at the City of la villa (pop 1957) or falfurrias (pop 4981)? NADA.
Have you people drive on boca chica lately WELL DON'T, accidents galore finger pointing and making ugly faces has become common on that blvd.
Looks like wild wild west, gringos should feel right at home.
All we need now is a gun fight, call it GUN FIGHT AT BOCA CHICA. Ha
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