(Ed.'s Note: Depending on the condition of your car, the first thing that will go will be either the suspension, the tires, the shocks, your tailpipe, or your windshield will crack. That is if you don't hit one of these craters on the road and lose control of the car and veer off the roadway or into an oncoming car. Is this the reason used tire shop and muffler shops proliferate in this town?
(In case you are stumped, this is the Roosevelt Street section between 13th Street and McDavitt adjacent to Victoria Elementary.)
We have grown weary of writing (and we're sure you have grown weary of reading) that Brownsville lacks a credible drainage system to prevent the breakup of the roadways every time it rains. These past few days we never really got a downpour in town, but the chipi-chipi over a few days has resulted in the usual pothole appearing on the streets.
If these seem familiar, they should. They are the same ones that City of Brownsville Public Works crews patched up last time it rained. And they will be the same ones they will patch when it rains a few weeks from now. We are literally providing job security for these guys and throwing money down the drain.
The city fathers (and one particular mother or nannie) have seen fit to spend millions on deluxe bike and hike trails that don't flood to attract the millions of tourists that will come to ride them, they tell us. So far the millions of "active" tourists have not appeared, but we're sure seeing a lot of our fellow city residents actively dodging the holes and oncoming traffic. Incidentally, after this post appeared, one of our bike-riding friends says he thought a small puddle on one of our streets was nothing and he rode over it only to end up on the pavement when he found out it was a deep water-filled pothole.
Hopefully the elections next May will see candidates who are conscientious men and women who will run to address the most basic of all city services, drainage.)