SOME COMMON SENSE APPROACHES TO CITY'S SHORTCOMINGS

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

The City of Brownsville simply needs to benchmark some priorities with a zero tolerance policy for failing to address them. 

1. Drainage, use the resacas, use more and larger designs for drainage, use your HEADS (the big ones on your shoulder that don't seem to work well here in Brownsville). 

2. No program designed to draw tourists or beautify the City or contribute to the damn bike trails should receive a penny until adequate drainage is provided. This ain't rocket science people!!!! 

3. Quit blaming citizens for having the temerity to venture onto our roads when it rains as though that somehow justifies failures in City management and Engineering. Only in Brownsville would someone suggest that it is somehow people's fault that their leaders are self-serving, money grubbing leeches who make no real attempt to address infrastructure problems. Ironically, these people did elect them and in that sense this claim makes a bit more sense. 

4. No new initiatives until the remedies to ancient problems are found, implemented, and fully funded no matter whose nonsensical hobby horses must stop (bike trails???!!!!). 

5. Why beautify downtown when no one can reach it if it rains? One picture of our flooded roads is enough to erase every bit of touristy propaganda bought and paid for by our so called leadership!! 

6. Instead of pursuing "alignment" and other chimeras in City Management, lets get some people less fond of meetings and more fond of constructive solutions to real problems. 

If they persist in pursuing "alignment," perhaps they could start with the many cars that need new alignment after enduring the abuse they suffer as a consequence of potholes, road debris, submerged road hazards, and other such nonsense that make our roads resemble the beaches of Hitler's Fortress Europe (Normandy Beach) more than anything else.