(Ed.'s Note: Not a day goes by that we don't witness scenes like the one above.
In fact, this family group is lucky there's a stand of oleanders near the bus stop to take some shelter from the baking sun.
Meanwhile, bikers who take a leisurely cruise around town can do so and enjoy the ride. If they get tired, attractive rest shelters have been installed by the city to take a break.
If it's after dark, the city has implemented a glow stone trail project with a budget of $90,000 from department funds so they can't lose their way.
On the other hand, many times BUS riders have to wait under the baking sun or in rain or cold. And we have posted here before that the bus shelters procured by the BUS contractors lie unassembled in their bus barns.
Aside from not providing riders with shelter from sun and rain, there are few benches for the people to use. Whenever the question of shelters arise, it is predictable that the managers of BUS will announce publicly that they have just spent gazillions to buy chingos of them. But where are they?
In contrast, the city commission – with commissioner Rose Gowen pedaling at the point – make no bones that they are dead set on making Brownsville bike friendly and will spend the people's money to place this city on the map of "active" tourism.Toward that end, they passed something called the Complete Streets Resolution #2012-056 adopted on October 2, 2012. One of the provisions adopted by the commission was that 10 percent of any transportation-related Certificates of Obligation go to bike and hike trails.
When the city paid to be named an All-American City, did anyone ask about priorities?)
