Access to recreational areas
Why is the city keeping Lower Gold Camp Road closed while they fix the washout on the road in North Cheyenne Canyon? Keeping this road closed is preventing people from accessing the parking area at High Drive, the Captain Jacks Trailhead Parking, and general access to one of the city’s most scenic and well-used recreational areas.
Why not allow access up Gold Camp to High Drive and simply close the gate heading down from High Drive to North Cheyenne Canyon? Can anyone in the Mayor’s Office or City Council explain the rationale for keeping the entire dirt portion of Gold Camp Road closed?
Bret Williamson
Colorado Springs
Traffic lane changes
What, pray tell do our brilliant traffic engineers have in store for us drivers on Uintah Street? They’ve removed all the lane markings from Mesa to at least 22nd Street, which tells me they have some diabolical plan to screw up the traffic configuration.
Maybe they’re going to add bike lanes for the 5,000 bicyclists that use that road every day or take out the left turn lane so traffic can back up to the interstate every night.
With the way they’ve jacked up the streets and traffic all over town in the past 10 years, it can’t be good.
Doug Dustin
Colorado Springs
Important regional survey
I want to compliment the Pikes Peak Community Foundation for providing a new survey to help determine what residents want to see for our region in the future. The region includes El Paso and Teller Counties. For those of you who do not know, this means the areas surrounding Colorado Springs and Woodland Park.
I hope that all of us who live in these areas take the time to complete the survey in order to amass a consensus about priorities for our surroundings. It is an interesting list of questions with a few different options for answers and does not take a lot of time from the participant.
The questions address issues such as growth, economy, homelessness, housing, education, transportation, the military, our beautiful surroundings and recreation. Surely there are at least a few issues here that are worth our opinions. Let’s overwhelm them with responses! And make sure to tell your family, friends, colleagues and even strangers about it. It’s the only way to really arrive at a reasonable database. The survey is available in English and Spanish at Telloss,org through mid-September.
The timing is interesting since recently there have been some recent editorials about important issues in our area, not all-inclusive by any means but at least an attempt to get people talking about what is important to them. If you don’t participate in the survey, you will have nothing to complain about.
Be part of the solution, not the problem.
Christopher A. Jones
Colorado Springs
NYC’s socialist future
So, New York City may have a Muslim Socialist for its next mayor. Everything will be free: buses, child care, groceries and whatever else people want. He’s also going to disband the police. Who wouldn’t want free stuff? But, is it free?
AOC is on board, which is no big surprise. That in itself may be reason enough to be opposed. There is also some question of his anti-Semitism position. But, ask yourself, who really will pay for all of this free stuff. He’s going to increase taxes on the rich, which, for one, will drive the “rich people” to other states with less taxes, thus reducing the source of funding.
It reminds me of a quote from Margaret Thatcher when she was British Prime Minister. “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money”. This socialist whacko has promised everything to everybody but eventually “you have to pay the piper”. With what? If this guy is elected, I predict that within a year New York City will be looking for another mayor.
If this is the future of the Democrat party, this country is in big trouble.
Barry S, Oswell, LtCol, USAF (ret.)
Colorado Springs
An ugly, 940-page bill
What does a man who has an income of $50 million and pays only $750 income tax know about the struggling citizens, whom he is supposedly representing, living on a monthly income of $2,000?
What does a man who has more money than God know about struggling citizens facing extraordinarily expensive medical costs?
Who in Congress has even actually read the 940-page bill before voting on it? I doubt not many, if any.
This huge ugly bill is expected to add $3 trillion to the national deficit.
What man is so two-faced as to claim he wants to decrease the national debt while at the same time pushing a bill that will add $3 trillion?
What man is so vindictive that he will retaliate against anyone who dares to oppose him on anything?
What man is rushing to have his huge ugly bill passed before the ordinary citizens know what is happening to them?
What man indeed?
Marge Baker
Colorado Springs
The badgering and bullying
“Don’t go too crazy!” Donald Trump posted on social media. “REMEMBER, you still have to get reelected.”
Really? Just another threat from the President of the United States sounding like a Mafia boss. Is this the way to run a country? Pay attention, Representative Jeff Crank and be a man. Stand up to this. “Remember, you still have to get reelected.”
I am sick of our Republican Party becoming a “gang”, with blind loyalty to the boss. It is ruining our country.
So, what happens to someone who objects to tax cuts to the Bezos Billionaires who don’t need a tax cut to fund their weddings, yachts, and mansions? Just ask Senator Thom Tillis who said his constituents need Medicaid and Medicare over the next 10 years. According to a Gazette article: “GOP Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina announced Sunday he would not seek reelection after Trump badgered him for saying he could not vote for the bill with its steep Medicaid cuts.” Oh great, so Trump is potentially handing over Tillis’ seat to the Dems after bloody infighting. I thought compromise is the key to victory in our government.
We need legislators who are “for the people”. Write to your congress people and newspapers and tell them how to govern. And stop the badgering and bullying.
Peter Knepell
Colorado Springs
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