Detroit has been awarded $500,000 for adding bike racks to DDOT buses - the total cost would be $680,000. to add bicycle racks to the front of Detroit buses - to expand ridership.. (10-24-08, DetNews)
Waste and a luxury ..Detroit bus riders deserve better...
I used to drive to work past bus riders waiting, waiting in cold blustery weather, on rainy days/nights, on windy days/nights with no protection - no where to sit during long waits for a bus to come. There are no bus shelters at Joy-WParkway, WWarren-Evergreen almost everywhere you look, there are NO bus shelters. And that has been - for year after year after year.
Detroit bus riders need buses that run on time, that are clean and BUS SHELTERS, that's basic...and that's what's needed NOW..not bike racks...
Detroit MDOT and the Feds should rethink this issue and allow Detroit to build - bus shelters with this money. But there needs to be accountability - where is the $20 million dollars for a new crime lab?
Bus shelters first, bus shelters now... add your comments....
Friday, October 31, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
DETROIT, KILPATRICK IN JAIL, NOT REMORSEFUL, NOT A VICTIM, A CRIMINAL
kilpatrick - former mayor of detroit - after watching the over two hour sentencing hearing - observations..
arrogant, smug, unremorseful....the mayor is in denial of his actions and the consequences of it.........he us unbowed.. he seemed desperate to rant at the judge - but finally agreed with his attorney - to stay silent, for his own good, but not really understanding his mouth would have gotten him in deeper.
he and his wife set a poor example for the public and young people...struggling to understand the significance of this situation....
the mayors father - defending his son how - disgusting and offensive - when he stands in the shadow of his potential prosecution - he should have intervened and properly advised his son.
malik shabazz - racism lives...kilpatrick is not a victim - misplaced and not appropriate in kilpatrick's case, the angry statements should have been directed at kilpatrick, so that detroit's youth - know that if you do the crime - you have to pay the time...crime doesn't pay or deserve - sympathy..
a police officer doesn't need a gun to their head to feel fear...its the situations that you know how you should react and act and can't that are most scary...the mayor doesn't understand that and i think the public doesn't either...white and kinney made truthful statements about their encounter with the mayor...a lot of people just cant understand it - only persons put in a situation like that can understand....
remember Marion Berry - Kilpatrick will return - people will forget, forgive and not remember the actions and legacy of this sad chapter in detroit history...
sadly today is NOT the end of this chapter in detroit history...more is coming to damage the city and its reputation...
this is not over - remember Tamara Greene / Manoogian Mansion party....
arrogant, smug, unremorseful....the mayor is in denial of his actions and the consequences of it.........he us unbowed.. he seemed desperate to rant at the judge - but finally agreed with his attorney - to stay silent, for his own good, but not really understanding his mouth would have gotten him in deeper.
he and his wife set a poor example for the public and young people...struggling to understand the significance of this situation....
the mayors father - defending his son how - disgusting and offensive - when he stands in the shadow of his potential prosecution - he should have intervened and properly advised his son.
malik shabazz - racism lives...kilpatrick is not a victim - misplaced and not appropriate in kilpatrick's case, the angry statements should have been directed at kilpatrick, so that detroit's youth - know that if you do the crime - you have to pay the time...crime doesn't pay or deserve - sympathy..
a police officer doesn't need a gun to their head to feel fear...its the situations that you know how you should react and act and can't that are most scary...the mayor doesn't understand that and i think the public doesn't either...white and kinney made truthful statements about their encounter with the mayor...a lot of people just cant understand it - only persons put in a situation like that can understand....
remember Marion Berry - Kilpatrick will return - people will forget, forgive and not remember the actions and legacy of this sad chapter in detroit history...
sadly today is NOT the end of this chapter in detroit history...more is coming to damage the city and its reputation...
this is not over - remember Tamara Greene / Manoogian Mansion party....
Thursday, October 9, 2008
McCAIN-PALIN CAMPAIGN LOW ROAD - DESPICABLE, DISGUSTING, LIES, WRONG
General Petraous has taken a postion on Afganhistan, and talking to the enemy that Barak Obama has spoken out about, leaving McCain to rethink his statements - or be on the wrong side of the Afganhistan war and the General, he adores who is running it.
John McCain, a war hero, a US Senator, has disgraced himself with the current low road that he and his unqualified running mate are taking - saying the Obama 'was palling around with terrorists' that he is an outsider, dangerous, not one of us'. McCain - Palin are trying to play the 'race card' and the 'muslim card' and are conducting a despicable, disgusting, denigrating campaign that is wrong and using lies to try and fool or mislead the American public.
With the US economy in a downward spiral, McCain - Palin are talking 'trash' and not how to reassure the American public that the economy will be fixed and not to panic sell their stocks - oh I remember - McCain said 'the economy is not my strong suit' and echoed President Bush, just before the stock market implosion that the 'fundementals of the American economy is strong'. His fellow Republicans said that McCain efforts to give imput into the bailout legislation - helped 'blow up' the discussions.
McCain needs help...Palin doesn't know enough to advise him to change course - she has only been involved in 'national politics' for six (6) weeks. McCain had only talked to Palin for 15 minutes before picking her for the second (2nd) most important job in the World - a heartbeat away from the Presidency. HOW irresponsible-HOW wrong.
The American people deserve better....
John McCain, a war hero, a US Senator, has disgraced himself with the current low road that he and his unqualified running mate are taking - saying the Obama 'was palling around with terrorists' that he is an outsider, dangerous, not one of us'. McCain - Palin are trying to play the 'race card' and the 'muslim card' and are conducting a despicable, disgusting, denigrating campaign that is wrong and using lies to try and fool or mislead the American public.
With the US economy in a downward spiral, McCain - Palin are talking 'trash' and not how to reassure the American public that the economy will be fixed and not to panic sell their stocks - oh I remember - McCain said 'the economy is not my strong suit' and echoed President Bush, just before the stock market implosion that the 'fundementals of the American economy is strong'. His fellow Republicans said that McCain efforts to give imput into the bailout legislation - helped 'blow up' the discussions.
McCain needs help...Palin doesn't know enough to advise him to change course - she has only been involved in 'national politics' for six (6) weeks. McCain had only talked to Palin for 15 minutes before picking her for the second (2nd) most important job in the World - a heartbeat away from the Presidency. HOW irresponsible-HOW wrong.
The American people deserve better....
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