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- submitted by californiaobserver on 02/23/2007

9 Years Too Long For Downtown 'Beautification' Project!?

I live outside SF. Beautiful town. 9 years ago our mayor started a project to spruce up the downtown. It already looked great.

Add some flower boxes, some antique looking street lamps. Enlarge a few sidewalks, plant trees and -- presto -- we'll have a really attractive town. A place where people from all over will want to hang and shop.

A win win for everyone, we were told.

Nine years later, the downtown looks like it's been hit by a cyclone. Most trees still haven't been planted. Can't see any antique lamps, and the sidewalks and streets are loaded with piles of excavated dirt, bricks and pipes, and bulldozers and cranes.

Enough!!

God knows how much money this is costing us, how much waste, how much incompetence and mismanagement. But we, a lot of us, just want to go back being able to go downtown and not face a dust storm.

Hearings are scheduled next month. If these idiots don't resolve this I'm pretty sure there's going to be a riot or coup. Local government. You barely pay attention to it. Then, when you do finally, you realize what a bunch of fools the people are who are running it....read more rants

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our town in nj has had the

- submitted by irateinnj on 02/23/2007

our town in nj has had the same thing. it's a joke!

these idiots keep promising they'll be finished in the spring. things started in 2002.

we're also having hearings. i don't know about a coup. but impeachment, definitely!!!

so so funny. we've still got

- submitted by canney on 02/23/2007

so so funny. we've still got machine equipment on our streets 6 years later. it's cost our town over 10Million. the most expensive flower boxes in america.

total corruption and incompetence.

kill all local

- submitted by jack on 02/23/2007

kill all local officials!

how can they be controlling our money. these guys are realtors or local dry cleaners.

my town in ny is in court now. contractors suing. residents suing. complete mess.

our mayor is a travel agent.

- submitted by krekk on 02/23/2007

our mayor is a travel agent. what more can be said! a major lightweight

outside philadelphia, we're

- submitted by downtowner on 02/23/2007

outside philadelphia, we're still in the middle of our downtown rehab. it's in its 7th year. our mayor was driven out of office. and the whole thing's been a fiasco.

our mayor is a realtor. he

- submitted by Anonymous on 02/23/2007

our mayor is a realtor. he promised a whole new downtown, and he delivered. trucks are everywhere, areas are cordoned off. he's an absolute idiot

our town spent 4 years

- submitted by njgirl on 02/23/2007

our town spent 4 years adding bricks to the sidewalk. cost over $2 million and covered at most 3 blocks.

mayor lost next election by 30%

our electrician finished his

- submitted by valleygirl5 on 02/23/2007

our electrician finished his job then went next store and, on his own, rewired a neighbor's house. then he had a breakdown. he never charged us or the neighbor.

go electricians!

our guy is pure dork. comes,

- submitted by electricianphobic on 02/24/2007

our guy is pure dork. comes, always has to leave to pick up more equipment or something.

earth to guy: brink your screwdrivers and wire cutters with you. you're an electrician remember!

i haven't met ours. he keeps

- submitted by jel on 02/24/2007

i haven't met ours. he keeps calling and rescheduling. sounds very very nice. but convinced he doesn't exist in flesh, only in voice.

anything past 3 years is a

- submitted by rationalthinker on 02/25/2007

anything past 3 years is a capital offense.

mayor should be forced to camp out downtown until project is finished.

our town in delaware took 1

- submitted by jedet on 02/25/2007

our town in delaware took 1 1/2 years to replace a flag pole. cost 200K. most expensive flag pole in delaware

we're still recovering from

- submitted by Anonymous on 02/25/2007

we're still recovering from the electrician's last visit. he fixed our bad outlet and shorted out the upstairs power.

he blamed it on bad copper wiring. our wiring wasn't copper.

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