We'd hear them talking about infrastructure repairs and upgrades instead of expansions. You cannot expand upon a crumbling foundation and expect the expansion to remain standing. Expansion for expansion's sake is absurd, ludicrous and unsustainable. Expansion for expansion's sake has been the modus operandi of Greensboro's "leaders" for 50 plus years but Greensboro's history tells us of a time when expansion was based more on need than on desire. A time when growth worked.
Granted, examples of desire and envy date back to our earliest days but were the exception rather than the norm they have become since a certain Jim "Bobblehead" Melvin and others ushered in a "new direction" for Greensboro some 50 or so years ago. A "new direction" Greensboro's "leaders" blindly chart out even today.
New roads? Why build new roads when the roads we have today are sinkholes waiting to happen? A sinkhole every week?
Cities cannot function with multiple water main breaks daily (Sorry Roch, it's Facebook) and for the City of Greensboro to have spent the last several years playing the same documentary film, Liquid Assets, about needed water and sewer repairs on the City owned cable TV channel (usually Sunday mornings) while at the same time diverting money from necessary infrastructure repairs to unknown "projects" is simply unacceptable.
But instead, since 2008 when the City of Greensboro started airing Liquid Assets our "leaders" have instead focused on Downtown greenways, performing arts centers, downtown skating rinks, hanging baskets, industrial parks 10 miles outside the city limits.... But will anyone really care when folks living in expensive downtown high rise condos built by the likes of Roy Carroll and sold by the likes of Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins are unable to flush their fancy toilets and outhouses start cropping up in the suburbs?
As if our "leaders" really cared...
Granted, examples of desire and envy date back to our earliest days but were the exception rather than the norm they have become since a certain Jim "Bobblehead" Melvin and others ushered in a "new direction" for Greensboro some 50 or so years ago. A "new direction" Greensboro's "leaders" blindly chart out even today.
New roads? Why build new roads when the roads we have today are sinkholes waiting to happen? A sinkhole every week?
Cities cannot function with multiple water main breaks daily (Sorry Roch, it's Facebook) and for the City of Greensboro to have spent the last several years playing the same documentary film, Liquid Assets, about needed water and sewer repairs on the City owned cable TV channel (usually Sunday mornings) while at the same time diverting money from necessary infrastructure repairs to unknown "projects" is simply unacceptable.
But instead, since 2008 when the City of Greensboro started airing Liquid Assets our "leaders" have instead focused on Downtown greenways, performing arts centers, downtown skating rinks, hanging baskets, industrial parks 10 miles outside the city limits.... But will anyone really care when folks living in expensive downtown high rise condos built by the likes of Roy Carroll and sold by the likes of Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins are unable to flush their fancy toilets and outhouses start cropping up in the suburbs?
As if our "leaders" really cared...
