More "Penny Tax" Waste
FORGET ROADS AND BRIDGES … HERE’S A “GREENWAY” THAT WILL COST MILLIONS For yYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Very good piece Will, really boils yer blood. They know we are powerless to stop the corruption and will continue to do so. How about a good heart warming story after the crappy one?
They should call this trail the “Zika Virus – Malaria Alleyway”
Really, this is a good use of the “penny tax”?!? NOTHING has been done about he Gills Creek FLOODWAY that will prevent it from flooding out again, and again, and again. The Riverwalk (which at least has an attractive view) has flooded out several times in the last several years requiring expensive and time consuming repair and cleaning to make it usable. The Gills Creek watershed won’t have the views but it will have trash, mosquitoes, flooding and easy access for breaking and entering homes along the creek.
Hey Alan Wilson. Do your job! You want to be Governor? Do your job!
Like the man said, “Life is a rat race” — but guess what? … the rats are winning..!!
It’s only a Penny, 1.2 Billion here 1.2 Billion there and pretty soon you’re talking about some real money. It all starts with the Penny Lie.
Reames won’t do anything further because he is indebted to the legislature and they want this tax. He is protected by them and has to return the favor.
We know.
Which legislators are protecting him? If that is true wouldn’t that be an ethics violation? Wait, no one enforces those ….
DAMN! Fitsnews is still doing its Jumpin” Jacks —- I’m going to remove it and come back later today….. this is annoying.
I just love the in-depth reporting here – “It would increase property crimes, one source familiar with the proposal told us.” And that source backs up this click-bait claim how exactly? Are there much better use for this money? It seems like it. Perhaps dealing with the railroad crossings on Assembly and Huger streets might be one project worth undertaking. Nevertheless, the NIMBY pseudo-racists “crime corridor” comment is lame. Perhaps your source needs to move out of Hampton’s Grant to the whiter land of Lexington.
But it will. I lived in the Harbison neighborhood which has trails all through it and the amount of property (and personal) crimes that are a direct result of those trails are horrendous. You can rob a person/home and be down the trail and on a number of different streets in seconds.
Their motto is “Pennies Impacting People” See my avatar to understand how that is working for most of us.
‘Here’s the real question: How on earth does a four-mile “greenway” help fill potholes or perform long-overdue maintenance on heavily-traveled roads?”
For the people who went to extraordinary and illegal means to get this boondoggle passed, their purposed was not road maintenance.
The purpose of this “penny tax” was to generate generous sums of money and have the instigators, their friends, a private management organization,and reliable “kick back contractors” in the queue to skim, commit fraud, and personally enrich themselves.
Fits, you were really too nice, in that you did not label these assholes(both public and private) as the crooks that they actually are. Keep up the good work on this one. All the players need to be exposed.
Go to Greenville sometime. We have pointless bike paths, trails and gardens all over the damn place. It just keeps growing.
Rick Reames. That is a great porn star name. I shoulda though of that one!