
Friday, August 15, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Cancel some LTD Routes?
FLASH!!!
LTD plans to shut down service to some bus routes because they are too busy, and the price of fuel is too high. Here's a thought. Stop giving free service to every lowlife that wants to go the the country fair, or ride back and forth between Eugene and Springfield.
Maybe if the routes are busy and losing money, it could be that the rates need to be raised.
LTD plans to shut down service to some bus routes because they are too busy, and the price of fuel is too high. Here's a thought. Stop giving free service to every lowlife that wants to go the the country fair, or ride back and forth between Eugene and Springfield.
Maybe if the routes are busy and losing money, it could be that the rates need to be raised.
Another Stupid Idea from Our City Leaders !!!!
The latest idea from the idiots is to ban undesirables from downtown. At first glance it sounds OK. I think in reality that is the purpose of the idea, to make it seem as if the council, and mayor are coming up with positive solutions to the downtown problem. Here's an idea, lets just ban undesirables from the whole state, that way we can just do away with the police altogether.
First of all, it's probably unconstitutional to enact such a ban. That in itself should keep the ACLU and the city attorneys busy for several years, and cost us all plenty of bucks. Then we have the problem of jail space...When these undesirable people don't appear in court after they have been ticketed, what will the city do with them? Hell, we can't even put car thieves in jail. There is no money to provide the space!!!
Then, a little known fact is that the police have a hard time giving tickets to minorities as it is. (Racial profiling) Can you imagine the stink it would raise among the "Eugene do-gooders" the first time some poor cop tries enforcing that law on some scumbag of a different ethnicity ? After all, he is only trying to survive the pitfalls of being different. Even worse if he's an illegal just trying to get by.
The mayor did say one thing that was true. (Paraphrasing): " If the downtown becomes active and vital again, the undesirables will leave" Here's a revelation mayor....as long as you continue to clutter the streets with benches, trees, artwork, and such, you will prevent the traffic and parking, that will make the downtown vital, and provide places for the "undesirables" to live and thrive.
Please go look at downtown Salem, and Corvallis. Open streets, with head in parking.
UPDATE (10-23-08) The city announced today that they would implement ban on "undesirables" in the downtown area. People caught breaking the law (dealing drugs, doing graffiti, etc.) would first be banned from the area for 90 days, and if caught again, would be banned for a year. What next? If caught a third time 5 years? and then for life? IDIOTS, IDIOTS, IDIOTS...There are already laws against these behaviors that are impossible to inforce , why the hell will these bums care about being banned from downtown any more than they care about the existing laws???
First of all, it's probably unconstitutional to enact such a ban. That in itself should keep the ACLU and the city attorneys busy for several years, and cost us all plenty of bucks. Then we have the problem of jail space...When these undesirable people don't appear in court after they have been ticketed, what will the city do with them? Hell, we can't even put car thieves in jail. There is no money to provide the space!!!
Then, a little known fact is that the police have a hard time giving tickets to minorities as it is. (Racial profiling) Can you imagine the stink it would raise among the "Eugene do-gooders" the first time some poor cop tries enforcing that law on some scumbag of a different ethnicity ? After all, he is only trying to survive the pitfalls of being different. Even worse if he's an illegal just trying to get by.
The mayor did say one thing that was true. (Paraphrasing): " If the downtown becomes active and vital again, the undesirables will leave" Here's a revelation mayor....as long as you continue to clutter the streets with benches, trees, artwork, and such, you will prevent the traffic and parking, that will make the downtown vital, and provide places for the "undesirables" to live and thrive.
Please go look at downtown Salem, and Corvallis. Open streets, with head in parking.
UPDATE (10-23-08) The city announced today that they would implement ban on "undesirables" in the downtown area. People caught breaking the law (dealing drugs, doing graffiti, etc.) would first be banned from the area for 90 days, and if caught again, would be banned for a year. What next? If caught a third time 5 years? and then for life? IDIOTS, IDIOTS, IDIOTS...There are already laws against these behaviors that are impossible to inforce , why the hell will these bums care about being banned from downtown any more than they care about the existing laws???
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Check out this youtube link before you read the rest of the blog,
The youtube link is just below the mayor's picture. Scroll down and click on it to see the video from FOX news, that prompted me to do this blog.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Downtown plans gain traction ???
I just read the article in The Register Guard (A business that has also moved from downtown) RE: the sale of the Centre Court building and some adjacent properties by our "Idiot" city leaders. Our grinning mayor was quoted as saying “an important turning point in the redevelopment of our downtown.” YA RIGHT!!! The city bought the property for exactly what they sold it to the guy for. ($3.6 million, with only $50,000 down)..To help the developer, the city will lend the firm $6.5 million for the construction work on the pit and in the Centre Court. Under the deal, if the developer cannot find enough tenants to occupy the new building, and the renovated Centre Court, the city has agreed to lease back up to 50,000 square feet for five years.
Now, get out your calculator....50,000 Sq. Ft. at even $1.00 a Sq. Ft. = $50,000.00 a month. $50,000.00 times 12 months in the year = $600,000.00 per year. Times that by 5 years and you get $3 million dollars. (and we're going to lend the guy $6.5 million, at low interest, on top of this.
What a deal. Lets see...Maybe we can invest the $50,000 down payment in bicycle stock.
Here's another quote from one of the city fools.“We have to make something happen in downtown,” You fools have been making something happen for 30 years, and look at the results. Lets give away some more buildings.
This whole thing was done in a very appropriate place, "Ken Kesey Square" I wonder if they smoked a little grass, and huffed the nitrous oxide before or after the ceremony?........ "One flew over the cuckoo's nest?"
Here are some ideas for businesses that would go well in the newly remodeled building, and the hole next door:
A skateboard museum. An all transsexual tofu bagel shop. A drug overdose clinic combined with a free methadone and clean needle giveaway. An all organic hemp walking shoe store. A city sponsored "Please give me your change" sign shop. A bicycle repair business...(oh, that won't work, if your bike is broken you need to take it to be repaired in a car)
I'm thinking they might cover that big hole where Woolworth’s once stood with a tarp, and have a nonstop Country Fair in it. (The free buses wouldn't have to go so far, and the old hippies could just stay here all year. Or here's an idea, take a bulldozer and fill it with all those ugly artworks, benches, cobblestones and anything else that's making it impossible to get a car downtown. While you're at it, toss in the mayor and city council.
I have a message for you Mr. Developer....YOU CAN'T GET A CAR DOWNTOWN..and if you do...THERE'S NO PLACE TO PARK. But why would you care? You don't have to do anything. You can pay the 3% interest out of the $6.5 million loan, and wait for the city to pay off what you owe us with the rent they will pay you. This is a little over simplistic, but I hope you get the idea.
It looks to me like the investor hasn't agreed that he will anything for sure. The article said that he "might" start work early next year, and he "might" invest money of his own.
OPEN UP THE STREETS FOOLS, and people will move back downtown
without giving the city away!!!!
Meanwhile, Back at the ranch....The Eugene police still have an outdated and unsafe building to work out of, and these grinning fools don't seem to care..
Now, get out your calculator....50,000 Sq. Ft. at even $1.00 a Sq. Ft. = $50,000.00 a month. $50,000.00 times 12 months in the year = $600,000.00 per year. Times that by 5 years and you get $3 million dollars. (and we're going to lend the guy $6.5 million, at low interest, on top of this.
What a deal. Lets see...Maybe we can invest the $50,000 down payment in bicycle stock.
Here's another quote from one of the city fools.“We have to make something happen in downtown,” You fools have been making something happen for 30 years, and look at the results. Lets give away some more buildings.
This whole thing was done in a very appropriate place, "Ken Kesey Square" I wonder if they smoked a little grass, and huffed the nitrous oxide before or after the ceremony?........ "One flew over the cuckoo's nest?"
Here are some ideas for businesses that would go well in the newly remodeled building, and the hole next door:
A skateboard museum. An all transsexual tofu bagel shop. A drug overdose clinic combined with a free methadone and clean needle giveaway. An all organic hemp walking shoe store. A city sponsored "Please give me your change" sign shop. A bicycle repair business...(oh, that won't work, if your bike is broken you need to take it to be repaired in a car)
I'm thinking they might cover that big hole where Woolworth’s once stood with a tarp, and have a nonstop Country Fair in it. (The free buses wouldn't have to go so far, and the old hippies could just stay here all year. Or here's an idea, take a bulldozer and fill it with all those ugly artworks, benches, cobblestones and anything else that's making it impossible to get a car downtown. While you're at it, toss in the mayor and city council.
I have a message for you Mr. Developer....YOU CAN'T GET A CAR DOWNTOWN..and if you do...THERE'S NO PLACE TO PARK. But why would you care? You don't have to do anything. You can pay the 3% interest out of the $6.5 million loan, and wait for the city to pay off what you owe us with the rent they will pay you. This is a little over simplistic, but I hope you get the idea.
It looks to me like the investor hasn't agreed that he will anything for sure. The article said that he "might" start work early next year, and he "might" invest money of his own.
OPEN UP THE STREETS FOOLS, and people will move back downtown
without giving the city away!!!!
Meanwhile, Back at the ranch....The Eugene police still have an outdated and unsafe building to work out of, and these grinning fools don't seem to care..
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