From Gene’s Notebook
…went to the West Brownsville Association meeting in the Villa Maria Restaurant Saturday about the West Loop Toll Road proposal (when the railroad is relocated) …and was encouraged that, perhaps, only three or four people of the nearly 100 in the restaurant wanted the road, any road …and ideas like rail, walking, birding, cycling, leaving for work early, fixing existing roads, roads in other locations …were popular ….
…could be the start of thoughtful growth, wise mobility, greening of the city, particularly West Brownsville …and was impressed how many people spoke fondly of West Brownsville, a relative slice of tranquility and a lot of shade in a busy Deep South Texas ….
The engineers from Cameron County said that “no build” was still an option …and many residents said they want to keep the “no build” pressure on the county …and while they do that, they should encourage the county to better utilize the engineers’ ample talents ….
Design and plan for a better planet!
Be a model of hope, not waste and foolishness and destruction!
Go down in history, county officials, as visionaries, not advocates of the same-old, same-old ….
Eugene “Gene” Novogrodsky
June 21, 2008, 8 p.m.
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1 billb // Jun 23, 2008 at 1:35 pm
…relocation of the railroad has been in the works for years….too many for me to remember…..no telling how many more years before actual relocation takes place. Lets do something as has been suggested once relocation takes place….bike/hiking trail to link up to existing linear trail…something that at least some of us my age can enjoy for the next 25 or 30 years…again that depends on how long before relocation of said railroad. Thanks Gene for bring up these “common’ sense ideas that might keep brownsvillians happy and healthy for years to come….even after we are gone.
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