Thứ Năm, 6 tháng 6, 2013

Our favorite part of the paper…the readers

The following comments are on several recent articles in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  You’d think the paper would pay as much attention as the citizens do.  Oh well, here’s to wishful thinking.

We all are very aware of the privatization of our electrical providers and how well that’s working for the consumer. Now I see in the May 19 Star-Telegram that the city of Fort Worth is considering the privatization of the water maintenance department.

With the advent of a new exciting bicycle rental business, I guess City Hall does not have time to be bothered with maintaining our boring old water system. Lest we forget, it takes a lot of time finding the money to fill up the bottomless “money pit” known in some circles as “Granger’s Pond.”
— W. B. Slaughter, Fort Worth

The Fort Worth City Council should not consider any new major expenditures until they have fixed our streets. That should and must be their first priority. We're having to wait, again, for the next bond election in May 2014, and we may or may not make that list of streets to be replaced. There are streets on the south side you need a tank to get down.

Our street on the east side has been categorized as a “3” (bad) since at least 2007. The street is crumbling, and it’s dangerously narrow, a problem for the fire department should we have a fire.

The City Council stuck us with bike lanes no one uses, and the Fort Worth Transportation Authority brought us a rent-a-bike program that is sure to fail. The Rivercrest area got all new street signs (of all things) and we can’t get a decent street to live on.

The council needs to take care of business for the residents as a whole, not their friends and special interest projects.
— Susie Fitzgerald, Fort Worth

Jeers: To the Keller City Council that has abandoned the city’s Future Land Use Plan and development standards at the whims of developers who have inundated the city with requests for smaller lots to bulk up their profits. The council presents as a representative of the developer vs. the citizens.
— Pam Morton, Keller

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