so i first started paying attention to this about a year ago. over at woodlandsevents.com, the gross amounts of misappropration of rational spending was fully brought to light for me. and then here recently one of mom’s heroes, Fox News Host Sean Hannity, made a list of the top 102 ways that the government is wasting our money – which i’d link to except that a) fox news is not a real news network, but sensationalism and propaganda at it’s prime and b) i just don’t feel like giving him a link, even if it would be fun for the eggheads over at fox news to wonder about those inbound links from a website with the word biotch in it’s url. so if you want to see the list in it’s entirety, you’ll have to google it.
but what got the local media all abuzz was item #81: six woodlands water taxis getting a new home in Texas ($750,000). and i have to say, despite the fact that fox news is tv for the lemmings led by the blind, and despite the fact that i live here and so therefore feel obligated to defend the dignity of the woodlands, i have to say i agree. i mean really – have you seen the waterway? when it’s not green, it’s brown. but that’s just because the moss and algae have died off – you know, winter and all. and riding the water “taxis” is a complete waste of money and time anyway. the route is nearly a mile long, but it doesn’t actually go anywhere that you can’t get to in an easier fashion, like say, on foot. or if you’re in a hurry, on the trolley, which, by the way, is free, runs more often, has more stops, you can even exit anywhere along the line.
and even if you do have the time and money to waste, i ask again, have you seen the waterway? it’s totally gross! to quote another resident, “The waterway has turned out to be nothing more than a backed up drainage ditch. I am not suggesting that we should have glass bottom boats but, who wants to ride down a brown canal then turn around and go back? Why isn’t there some sort of filtering mechanism to put fresh water into it rather than let it be stagnant?” it’s totally true. despite the fact that the waterway could have created a link between lake woodlands and lake robbins, which, though really are nothing more than detention ponds anyway, would have at least offered an interesting waterway to want to tool around on. but instead, there’s a dam between the two lakes, both of which almost always have stagnant water. the only time the water even remotely looks inviting is right around the aerating fountains out by the highway.
so yeah, trying to keep the water taxis going is a complete waste of money. unless of course, we’re attempting to make the brown water green again by, you know, adding “green” to it. heh. wow, not even funny by my own low standards.
if we’re all just bumbling around trying to come up with a way to spend three-quarter mil, how about getting the damn traffic lights on the parkway synchronized? or running the trolleys till a reasonable hour, like say, 10:00?
how green was my valley, er, ditch