At Tuesday night's city commission meeting, the idea of a trolley came up. It usually comes up around election time.
The Mayor and the Commission increased the Budget by $100,000 for a trolley that will go from the downtown, transporting people to bonfires on our beach. The service is to be one time per week and maybe branch off to pick up passengers from the College, etc. down the road. Personally, I think this is one of the wackiest uses of a trolley--bonfires. Why won't people simply drive their cars to the beach? No one pays for parking during this event anyway, so it's not to save $2 bucks.
The trolley is now being used as an attraction to Seniors, the disabled and the poor, the very ones it helped years ago, in order to grab their vote in this coming November election. In the meantime, all these folks were all forced to find other means of transportation years ago such as Palm Tran or taxicabs or rely on friends thanks to a former Commission that did not care about Seniors either.
I was told that our trolleys were all given to Boynton Beach. In November 2010, the Boynton Beach commission voted to eliminate the trolley, which cost the Community Redevelopment Agency about $438,000 a year with the hopes of bringing it back someday when budget restraints reverse. The trolley, which started in 2005, averaged about 570 riders a day, along a 20-stop route from the waterfront to the Boynton Beach Mall.
The City of Lake Worth has not cared about its elderly population for years. I do believe that there are residents in my community who would use the trolley again especially when the Publix on Lake Worth Road closes. How many is undetermined. Many of them walk to Publix who do not have a car.
Murry Hills, an over 55 community, says that they do not support the trolley at this time (especially at election time) when the city commission just raised their taxes and incorporated an unjust special assessment. Ron Exline, government liaison for Murry Hills, says, "It's like sticking us in the eye; it's all political."
Read about it here.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
The Trolley about to come back from the Dead
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At Tuesday night's city commission meeting, the idea of a trolley came up. It usually comes up around election time.
The Mayor and the Commission increased the Budget by $100,000 for a trolley that will go from the downtown, transporting people to bonfires on our beach. The service is to be one time per week and maybe branch off to pick up passengers from the College, etc. down the road. Personally, I think this is one of the wackiest uses of a trolley--bonfires. Why won't people simply drive their cars to the beach? No one pays for parking during this event anyway, so it's not to save $2 bucks.
The trolley is now being used as an attraction to Seniors, the disabled and the poor, the very ones it helped years ago, in order to grab their vote in this coming November election. In the meantime, all these folks were all forced to find other means of transportation years ago such as Palm Tran or taxicabs or rely on friends thanks to a former Commission that did not care about Seniors either.
I was told that our trolleys were all given to Boynton Beach. In November 2010, the Boynton Beach commission voted to eliminate the trolley, which cost the Community Redevelopment Agency about $438,000 a year with the hopes of bringing it back someday when budget restraints reverse. The trolley, which started in 2005, averaged about 570 riders a day, along a 20-stop route from the waterfront to the Boynton Beach Mall.
The City of Lake Worth has not cared about its elderly population for years. I do believe that there are residents in my community who would use the trolley again especially when the Publix on Lake Worth Road closes. How many is undetermined. Many of them walk to Publix who do not have a car.
Murry Hills, an over 55 community, says that they do not support the trolley at this time (especially at election time) when the city commission just raised their taxes and incorporated an unjust special assessment. Ron Exline, government liaison for Murry Hills, says, "It's like sticking us in the eye; it's all political."
Read about it here.
At Tuesday night's city commission meeting, the idea of a trolley came up. It usually comes up around election time.
The Mayor and the Commission increased the Budget by $100,000 for a trolley that will go from the downtown, transporting people to bonfires on our beach. The service is to be one time per week and maybe branch off to pick up passengers from the College, etc. down the road. Personally, I think this is one of the wackiest uses of a trolley--bonfires. Why won't people simply drive their cars to the beach? No one pays for parking during this event anyway, so it's not to save $2 bucks.
The trolley is now being used as an attraction to Seniors, the disabled and the poor, the very ones it helped years ago, in order to grab their vote in this coming November election. In the meantime, all these folks were all forced to find other means of transportation years ago such as Palm Tran or taxicabs or rely on friends thanks to a former Commission that did not care about Seniors either.
I was told that our trolleys were all given to Boynton Beach. In November 2010, the Boynton Beach commission voted to eliminate the trolley, which cost the Community Redevelopment Agency about $438,000 a year with the hopes of bringing it back someday when budget restraints reverse. The trolley, which started in 2005, averaged about 570 riders a day, along a 20-stop route from the waterfront to the Boynton Beach Mall.
The City of Lake Worth has not cared about its elderly population for years. I do believe that there are residents in my community who would use the trolley again especially when the Publix on Lake Worth Road closes. How many is undetermined. Many of them walk to Publix who do not have a car.
Murry Hills, an over 55 community, says that they do not support the trolley at this time (especially at election time) when the city commission just raised their taxes and incorporated an unjust special assessment. Ron Exline, government liaison for Murry Hills, says, "It's like sticking us in the eye; it's all political."
Read about it here.
Any truth to the rumor that the funds for the trolley are to come out of the billboard fund?
ReplyDeleteThe same fund that was allocated in the budget to go toward the beach in full?
The billboard "settlement" is a complete joke. Number one, the legal department at city hall never should have allowed them to 1) install billboards as they are against our Code and Ordinances and 2) install a LED billboard. They should have welcomed the damn law suit and sued their azz all the way to kingdom come. IMO. But no. The City is paranoid. Just threaten a law suit and they cower in fear excepting when it comes to employees or citizens.
ReplyDeleteThen WHY do we have 158 different lawsuits going on at this moment?????????
ReplyDeleteAll I said was that they fear law suits, not that they don't get involved in them. They think nothing about suing the citizens or suing employees. I heard that figure as well, 158. Do you think it is really popssible? LOL
ReplyDeleteYEA! Election time again! Commissioners and crews knocking on doors. The wonderful mailers that are not made from recycled materials as that would be so passe for a green city.
ReplyDeleteincumbents knocking on doors to those in need promising help for their votes and to never be heard from again.
The wonderful speeches and stories of what they have accomplished which is a stretch of the truth or someone else actually pushed it through or yelled at them just enough to get a word in edge wise. Just because they voted for it does not mean they did any of the work on it.
It's such a wonderful time of year in Lake Worth with all the campaigns its almost like Halloween Every Day! Lies, Witches and Warlocks mixing their brew of stupidity.
If your fed up with it?? Put a sign on your front door that states your home is a no campaign zone and DO NOT Leave your literature here. Not sure if one can opt out from getting the mailed campaign materials but if so please let all of us know.
Happy Hallowe....Opps I meant Campaigning everyone. Best of luck!
I heard the Builidng Dept. issued permits for the billboards without the proper approvals. Once again no communication. The CM said she wanted to do something "visible" with the payout so she could tell the public this is what you got as a result of the billboard situation.
ReplyDeleteWhich group of voters is the commission and the CM trying to target with the trolley to the bonfires?
ReplyDeleteThey are throwing out the carrot to the Senior voter that the trolley might help them out in the future.
ReplyDeleteONE DAMNED TRIP PER WEEK FOR 100,000? Did I read that right?!? I can do better than that!How much do trolley drivers make,for heaven sakes!I think it must be one trolley that goes on a continuous loop from the beach to the State College with some stops inbetween.
ReplyDeleteThe billboard settlement SUPPOSEDLY went into the CIP.City employees refused to tell the FAB board exactly where in the CIP the money went!
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