By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
HARLINGEN, Texas | It's all about the look, isn't it? That's how you can tell a city or town is either moving forward or just dying. New buildings, new commerce, new parks, new golf courses, new streets. You're either getting it done or you are just letting it go.
Harlingen Mayor Norma Sepulveda may be new to the job, but she's a year into bringing a can-do attitude to city government.
Streets in Harlingen have never been all that bad (see Brownsville for the Worst in The Valley). This is what she posted on her active Facebook page about the latest roadwork: [ The City of Harlingen recently repaved Clifford Street from Haine Dr. to Daniel Cir. We also repaved Tucker Road from Lincoln Ave. to Dixieland Rd. 🚗💨 ]
McAllen also does a good job of maintaining its streets, as does the City of Edinburg.
What a difference these improvements make. You can drive around town and see the work being done, and then being completed. Infrastructure, they call it in cityspeak. That's taxpayer money at work.
You roll into a pothole and, well, there you and your vehicle are - angered and out-of-alignment.
This is not El Salvador (We used to say Mexico, but have you seen Mexico lately?).
This is the Rio Grande Valley of Texas - as proud a region as you'll find anywhere in the Lone Star State.
Pave the streets in town and get the state to pave the roads leading into and out of town. That's public service at its best. Your mayor knows.
He or she just needs to get out of that air-conditioned office at City Hall and see what the rest of the city's residents see.
It's not hard at all, as Harlingen keeps proving...
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I saw Mayor Norma downtown the other day. We never saw former Mayor Chris Boswell anywhere!
ReplyDeleteNice. Always good to see the valley fixing things. Doesn't always happen, especially in the little towns.
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