(Ed.'s Note: Look at this picture closely. [Click on graphic to enlarge.] Just in front of the blue bus with the Denver-Chicago ad for a local airline one can see the end of a blue bench where riders can use as they await their bus. However, it is empty.
Why? The temperature is hovering at 93 degree and can only get hotter. The riders eschew use of the bench so they won't be rostisados before da ride arrives. Instead, like most sensible people, they seek the shade of trees used for landscaping along the fence. The benches go unused.
The question then becomes: What well-paid genius with BUS/Brownsville Metro, the company the City of Brownsville uses under Norma Zamora's leadership, forgot to add a covering to the benches so people could take shelter from the sun, or the elements, when a norther and the cold rains come?
After several decades of holding the contract, Brownsville Metro is bragging that 53 of the city's 588 bus stops will eventually be improved with 11 of those projects already completed, an unimpressive 9 percent of the bus stops.
No pun intended, but it seems like BUS/Metro - and the city officials assigned to oversee their performance - are getting a free ride.