(Ed.'s Note: As if Cyclobia – the late afternoon weekend exercise in revitalization of the downtown area by closing the streets and having suburbanites ride around in expensive bikes – wasn't bad enough for downtown business, we now have the City of Brownsville scaring away shoppers by paving streets on Saturday morning. Historically, Saturday is the busiest day of the week for local, Matamoros, and northern Mexico residents to buy their wares downtown. Local merchants depend on this day. So what does the city do? Here we have a paving crew restricting traffic to one lane of the two-lane street and shutting off the curb to parking. We're also sure that the city crews will have to be paid overtime to work Saturdays. A merchant who sent us this photo wants to know whose bright idea this was and why they weren't consulted to arrange for another day when this paving could be done. Is this another example of the COB's Uneconomic Development?)