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Vote them all out
Dear Editor:
It is my honest opinion, these spend-thrift commissioners don’t give a darnn about the people of Deerfield Beach.
They are now spending $6 million on an unnecessary project on Hillsboro Boulevard between Federal Highway and the bridge. So far, it’s taking six or more months working “piecemeal” and it is far from completion, using up that money.
Now these commissioners want to do a big, unnecessary rebuilding of the parking lot in The Cove. As far as I can see, it is a perfectly good parking lot in a business center. It seems they want to make it into a possible park. Why? I understand the plans are already approved and it will cost a fantastic $430,000 just for the plans and supervision, and they say two years to complete.
How can the commissioners even think of spending that much money [not to mention] the taxes it will have to raise to pay for it? Don’t they realize that this is not the time to put another burden on the taxpayers, with the economy causing so much grief?
They should be thinking of ways to help those unfortunate people by lowering taxes and finding ways to help them save their homes and find jobs.
I wonder how many people will be enriched by this project. Any commissioner voting for this should be voted out of office.
Frank Cuomo
Deerfield Beach
Reader reports difficulty on bus
Dear Editor:
This is the latest on what no one is supposed to know. On Sunday, Jan. 18 a huge [number] of people came out to wait for the bus to take us to the Festival Flea Market. There was pushing and shoving, pure mayhem. Someone had to call for a second trolley. Still there was not enough room. People were allowed to stand in the bus. Imagine elderly people standing from Century Village all the way to Festival, the long way. It made stops at Sawgrass Prominade, Winn Dixie, Broward Hospital etc. The schedule is for a bus every 75 minutes, last bus being 3:30 p.m. There turned out to be different schedules so you can imagine the confusion.
Coming back on the 1:50 p.m. trolley, we were 24 seated passengers. The rest were standing. All in all, there were 38 people on the little white bus cramped in like sardines. One woman fainted. Someone called 911. It was hotter than hell. The trolley was so heavily loaded down we thought it would just stop. It went so slow because of the heavy load of people.
This is what we are supposed to look forward to on a Sunday. No more trolleys. Cramped little buses, not enough seats and don’t ask anyone for information because no one knows anything.
Is anyone minding this place? Where are the so-called coordinators? We are people, not cattle. We are elderly. That’s why we opt to live in an elderly community. We are not illegals waiting to be shoved in a bus across the county. Whose wonderful idea was this? This was not a very well-thought-out plan. So to whom do we give our thanks? To whom do we give our monthly praises?
