𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗡𝗦𝗩𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘'𝗦 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗬'𝗦 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗦

 

from Frankie Olivio's Facebook page

The need for covered bus shelters with adequate seating at all Brownsville Metro stops, an issue long raised by El Rrun Rrun editor Juan Montoya, is not a financial issue.

The city actually has money to do this, especially considering what's spent annually by BCIC, the city's 4B "Quality of Life" entity, something in the neighborhood of $5,000,000. 

No, it's not a financial issue, simply one of priority.  

If the elderly and those financially unable to purchase a vehicle are NOT using Brownsville Metro, then why in the hell is the city subsidizing the bus operation so heavily each year?

If the city is not willing, after all of these years, to fund adequate places for our citizens to wait for the bus outside in the sun and in the rain of Brownsville, it's simply a reflection on who we are as humans.

Why would any humane, so-called Christian community fund an airport extension, another bike trail or anything else before making certain our city's neediest aren't waiting for the bus standing out in the hot sun or the pouring rain?