Comments on: Mayor Hotline Feb 13 to 19

By: Karen Jeffries

Karen Jeffries — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:45:38 +0000

Nick Brizzi wrote: “I wanted to remind all concerned again that there is no such thing as federal money, state money, county money, city money, it is all taxpayer money, it is all my money.”

No, Nick, it’ll also be money from every other taxpayer in the USA, just like your money helped pay for all the other systems built all over the nation over the past thirty years that you’ll never see.

By: cyclops

cyclops — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:11:51 +0000

Well Greenman, let’s have a little reality check. CCDC has been responsible for development in the downtown core for over 20 years. I assume you want to get rid of them? If your looking for a simple fix, the Guardian put the best one in the mix over a year ago. It consists of a rubber tired “circulator” that runs around downtown. I believe it was referred to as a “surface subway”. It requires a comnmitment to a valleywide bus system that would service downtown both day and night. The only factor not addressed, to date, is the requirement that when we kick off the new transportation system on a sunny Monday morning, we must, at the same time, announce that it will now cost $20.00 to gain entrance to a downtown parking structure, thus making it too expensive to bring private cars into Boise proper. A word of advice though. When you tell that to the downtown business association, I would urge you to be real close to an emergency exit. You will need it. We will continue our love affair with our cars as long as it is viable. A silly railcar that runs around the 15 blocks of downtowm, doesn’t solve a single problem we face, with the exception of giving the mayor something to put his name on!

EDITOR NOTE– here is a link to our plan of 2007 which has been ignored by one and all in government circles: https://boiseguardian.com/2007/03/22/guardian-solves-bus-woes/

By: Greenman

Greenman — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:59:09 +0000

Boise has long lacked the kind of transportation infrastructure needed to maintain the quality of life and lifestyle I am sure all your readers enjoy. The fact that Boise’s downtown is at it’s lowest ebb since the 70’s is also probably lost on many of your readers, but dig back into the past and recall a time when downtown Boise was the vibrant center of the community, the state and the region…. instead of Boise Town Square Mall. The traffic then was horrible too. But the city’s population was around 75000 and now it’s close to 230,000. We old timers knew we needed alternative transportation then and planning for the future. And I would rely on our current Mayor to do his best for the city as a whole instead of the do-nothing peanut gallery that seems more inclined to sit on thier hands than act for the good of the whole.

By: Razzbar

Razzbar — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:31:29 +0000

Hey, maybe if we had the little jitney run the other way, like over to BSU, then students would ride it!

Yeah… that’s it. Run it the other way.

By: Timm!

Timm! — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:11:56 +0000

I like how people think that Mayor Dave has any pull about what aircraft are deployed to a military facility.

EDITOR NOTE–Did you get the one sided advocacy post card in favor of the F-35 from Mike Simpson paid for at taxpayer expense and sent under his franking privilege?

It says, “If you support bringing the mission to Idaho…” send the return post card. No opportunity to send any opposition, just a chance to demonstrate “overwhelming support.” So much for being open minded and willing to hear from ALL citizens.

We still see this buzz being created on behalf of Lockheed to get congress to approve it’s project.