Comments on: Part of Crosstown Parkway will open several months early

By: AVidal

AVidal — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:06:32 +0000

All I want to say is that Port Saint Lucie needs this bridge over the river to be able to compete with the rest of the South Florida cities, and really atract serious investors and businesses to the area in order to create the so desperately needed jobs, as well as for giving homeowners and the city the progress it was having before the housing market collapsed. I moved to PSL three years ago from Miami and I don’t regret it so far, although my house is worth about $120K less that what I purchased it for back then, I believe it is a nice city for young families to raise their children, and which has a lot of potential for becoming a really important city in Florida, while at the same time doing it environmentally responsible, and avoid repeating the same mistakes and flaws that the older South Florida cities did. I believe we can do it as long as we have responsible elected officials looking out for the real interests of its citizens.

By: sgd1

sgd1 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:17:33 +0000

Suzanne welcome to Port St Lucie, where its elected officials lie and deceive their consituients to get what they want. The City Coucnil led all the residents to beleive that the permits were in place for the completion of the bridge over the river. Once again it was brought to the forefront that these Elected Officials got this vote passed by lies an deception. Its unforuante that the city of port st lucie has a lame duck city council that is led around by the nose of its city manager Don Cooper.
Its unforuante that we as residents have Elected Officials that would rather manage “OUR” city by lies and deception too get what they want done. All this just get their name on some building in the future. What should we expect when you have a basket maker, a banker, a secretary, a fireman and a defunct businessman as your Elected Officials. They are so unprofessional that they are lead around and told what they will do by the city manager which also should be replaced. But if that is done then these offcials would be entirely clueless.

By: Suzanne Eovaldi

Suzanne Eovaldi — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:53:28 +0000

Having covered large construction projects for a large northwest Indiana daily, I still am bothered by the fact that we taxpayers were prompted to vote for Crosstown Exp. assessments WITHOUT clearly being told by our elected officials in their runup to this special elections that they in fact did not have all of their permitting in place before construction began. I never heard of beginning a project of this magnitude before getting the green light from local, state and federal permitting officials. How can this be? Dividing up the the project into sections has always been a problem for me. What’s really at stake here is the destruction of a part of primal Florida that never can be replaced, forever removed from us.