We are now seeing a few of those new articulated buses traveling our city streets. I assume that the drivers are practicing. Evidently they need to practice, I heard a person the other day talking about watching the tail section of one of the busses careening through a turn.
Part of the project has been to build special stations along our state maintained highway 20 otherwise known as Mesa Street.
The stations have had their adjacent roadway torn out and replaced with thick concrete — supposedly to provide support for the heavy buses as they stop and start.
Which is it?
However now the buses are stopping at the old bus stops, the ones without the special reinforcement.
Are we destroying the roadway where they are stopping now, or does it turn out that the streets do not need to be reinforced?
We deserve better
Brutus
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actually, reinforced concrete at bus stops has been going on for several years. There are many of these spots on George Dieter, and other streets on the east side. I don’t think they have anything to do with these new, articulated buses.
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I’m more concerned about the ugly floral screens they installed at the new shelters. I wonder how extra we paid just for that little added feature.
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They were paid for out of the Public Art fund, should be possible to tind out. The claim is that these are native flowers but they don’t look like anything I can recognize around El Paso.
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Maybe if they had a speaker system piping out concertina music?
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If Cortney Niland continues to show a lack of respect and support for the Rescue Mission and continues to disrupt its relocation, these bus stops might soon become homeless shelters.
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