Strangling traffic

November 27, 2018

A loyal reader sent in this picture of Robinson Avenue going north:

The city has taken what was a four lane road and narrowed it to two.

According to a March 7, 2018 city news release:

This project with an approximate budget of $2.7 million is part of the City of El Paso’s commitment
to improve El Paso’s regional comprehensive transportation system.

According to a June 29, 2016 city news release:

As part of the project, new hike and bike trails will also be constructed, and new landscaping, irrigation, illumination, ADA compliant
sidewalks and curbs will be added to area.

Both ways

Evidently the bike crowd gets to have the “bike trail” off to the right as well as the right to ride on the street where there are double yellow lines prohibiting passing.

If you get stuck behind a bicyclist going up the road you cannot pass him.

“commitment to improve”, my foot.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Streetcars working

November 26, 2018

We are getting good reports from people about the streetcars!

In fact we have heard that they are quiet, smooth riding and fully capable of climbing up Stanton.

Whether or not you are in favor of the project they seem to be operating well.

This is better

Brutus

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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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