Alameda Brio late

November 25, 2018

The Alameda Brio line is behind schedule.

Sun Metro’s web page makes this claim:

The second corridor is Alameda. Construction on Alameda is tentatively scheduled to begin in fall 2016 with completion in early 2018.

In this year’s budget the city makes this claim:

Commence Alameda RTS service in November 2018 and Dyer RTS in January 2019

The budget document made that prediction in September, two months ago.

Today is November 25, 2018 and neither Alameda nor Dyer are being talked about.

Is anyone paying attention?

We deserve better

Brutus

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Just plain dumb

November 24, 2018

Is the water park economically feasible?

Consider this

After receiving $100 million in publicly funded incentives the water park developers now have 18 months to decide whether to go through with the project.

We have given away the store, our funds and future are now tied up while the developers try to figure out if we have given them enough money.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Sun metro 2018

November 23, 2018

The Sun Metro ridership numbers for the 2018 fiscal year are out.

They show a 5% decrease in riders from 2017.

The year before (2017 vs 2016) showed a 9.3% decrease.

Before that the period from 2016 to 2015 showed another 9.2% decrease.

They reported that the cost per trip went up from $3.41 to $3.77, a ten percent increase.  If you take the total amount of money that they were budgeted to spend for 2018 and divide it by the number of rides they reported, the cost per ride was actually $5.45.

We deserve better

Brutus

 

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How do we know we got the best deal?

November 19, 2018

Why is it that the city did not ask for competitive offers from the companies that build hotels with indoor waterparks?

Would any of them have turned out to be a better deal for us?

We deserve better

Brutus

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Is it a convention center or just a meeting room?

November 18, 2018

The idea that the proposed water park will also be a convention center is a bad joke that is being played at the expense of the public.

The plans presented to the city detail a convention facility of 10,000 square feet.

By way of comparison our downtown convention center features 133,000 square feet.

A football field is 48,000 square feet.  This center would fit within the first 20 yards.

Tradeshowexecutive.com ranks convention centers into four tiers with tier IV being the smallest.  They consider the minimum size of a tier IV center to be 50,000 square feet.

It is hard to imagine that the Texas comptroller will consider this facility to be a convention center and so, according to the terms the city has offered the developer, the taxpayers of El Paso will have to pay the developer $40 million.

We deserve better

Brutus

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