Can't Stand it in Tucson
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11/26/2017
Will right more when I'm less angry. Never lived in a more clueless, disconnected city, if you can call it that. You simply cannot get anywhere in a hurry. You hit every red light. Drivers do not move over when going slow. They never check their mirrors. They go slow in both or all three lanes. Traffic signals are everywhere and are not coordinated to facilitate flow but to slow traffic and create more stop & starts, wasting gas and creating more pollution.
A clueless place. City council is like the Supreme Court; they stay until they die. They see themselves as an activist government and promote activist causes which carry no weight and make them feel good as the city continues to fail around them. All the city dares to care about are it's flailing downtown and the neighborhoods around the university. It can't handle anything else. Tempe is now growing faster, with more construction cranes, with better energy and with more sophistication than all of Tucson put together, and we are only talking about one, rather small in size, suburb of Phoenix.
Tucson is just dead. It's a dead place. Where does the mayor and city council get off on calling Tucson the next Austin or Portland? Dream on. The average age here must be 80+. Young people have no ambition. Why should they? There's never been an economy here to support ambition or inspire young people. Other than serving the elderly, there's precious little to do in Tucson...still the same problems, the same ruts, the same joke of small town that can't move forward. I find Tucson with its unending problems and its inability to move forward frankly so old now and disgusting, that I have to control the road rage when I drive around. Tucson is a joke. They say that the few flights that actually do come in here don't need oxygen. All the passengers are already on it. The mayor got his $200 million light rail and now no one rides it. What huppuned - it should have been a slam dunk on our way to Portland.
No way. Buzzards and people with futures live here. That's all Tucson has been and will ever be.
Clive | Tucson, AZ