Congrats to Supv of the 4th district Ray Carroll and our Board of supervisor for spending $80,000 to pay for a “trail canopy” so by the off chance someone on that remote trail should be under it when a train comes over them, and by chance, something should come loose, like a rock, they will be protected. What happens if the whole track fails apart, a much more likely event because of our crumbling infrastructure? The canopy will probably kill them! I would suggest what my mother taught me when entering into dangerous situations. Look both ways and then cross the street. Besides being a crazy idea, how many potholes could be filled with $80,000? Please Citizens of Pima county, vote for Marla Closen and defeat the corrupt Board of supervisors who spends our money for patronage.
—Jo-Ann Marks, Together We’re Stronger
This article appears in Jan 28 – Feb 3, 2016.
Well hey there Jo-Ann, maybe your mother should have also told you that there are different pots of money that are used for different types of projects and that $80,000 could never have been spent on potholes. What would you propose they then spend it on? Handicapped spaces for friends of district 1?
There should be NO tax dollars spent t protect us from falling train parts. That is Southern Pacifics responsibility, now that the train tracks are a county hiking area. This is exactly what happens to our tax dollars when you elect liberals of either party. Ray Carroll is a wasteful spending liberal.