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A frank appraisal of the town of Durango

Just so things don’t get any further out of alignment without notice, witness my Durango list. The town wasted money putting in atrocious cement dividers that will be real problems on real winters, and it will spend money taking them out after plows have been damaged, but the operators will be blamed.

In the meantime, they keep traffic from moving as it should. Another thing is that the transit system was set up under grant money which, of course, means it’s free. There was no grant for maintaining it; therefore, whoever wrote the grant should be liable for its maintenance and operation: some rich lawyer.

The Animas River Trail should be no wider than 4 feet and unpaved. It took an awful lot of anti-green work to set it up. It wiped out a lot of trees and bushes, although cities are certainly no places for living things.

Something that would be great for business is to get rid of all parking meters forthwith as there’s a scarcity of parking in town anyway, if parking really matters.

Instead of doing something right, the City Council has full intentions of gouging the taxpayers as much as possible in perpetuity – their idea of progress and successful terms.

Although tourists are used to paying part of the sales tax, which means it’s free, what the money causes certainly is not free, and the locals are still captives to this tax. And, of course, they should not shop elsewhere.

Then there are the roundabouts, which are Third World, big-city contrivances. These are definite indicators of where the town’s intentions are.

No amount of money can replace the perfection from which it was extracted. And, no incumbent should be re-packaged and re-sold via letters if that politician had done a good, responsible job, if this is still possible.

John Feazel

Pagosa Springs



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