John T. White Neighborhood Association

In White Lake Hills, we do need a sidewalk all the way down Bridge Street.  We have asked our Councilman Danny Scarth.  He answers that he supports sidewalks.  We have asked how to get this done with no help.  The only response that I have heard is that this issue will have to be in a bond program.  When this does happens I will be the first to speak and urge that this be in the next bond prograam. 

 

I have seen mothers with babies, people in wheelchairs, young people and the elderly try to naviagte Bridge Street.  The sidewalk should be completed from Oakland all the down to the East Regional Library.  I urge residents to take the The Pedestrian Survey online.  Please mention our sidewalk issue. 

It is a health and safety issues for all residents.  I just hope that someone is not injured. 

Are there others our there that have ideas about this issue?

 

 

I have heard rumors that the city was going to install sidewalks down Oakland toward the walking trails near Quanah Parker Park, which is patently absurd.  Sidewalks down Oakland all the way to the library and on toward East Loop 820 are direly needed. 

 

A neighbor of mine from the Poly neighborhood was killed on Bridge Street in the 1970s when a high school student hit him while he was walking near the curb because the grass was too tall to walk in.  Nothing was done about installing sidewalks at that time, either.

 

How many people will have to be injured, maimed or killed before Mr. Scarth sees fit to push, and push hard, for a bond election to raise funds for a sidewalk installation on Bridge Street?

 

Of course, most, if not all, of the people who are traveling on foot on Bridge Street are poor and disenfranchised and I doubt very seriously that Mr. Scarth cares one whit for the welfare of these individuals because it is highly unlikely that he considers them part of his constituency.  Mr. Scarth, if you are reading this, would you care to respond to this?

 

I dare say that if such a deplorable condition existed on the west side of town, it would have been remediated a long time ago. 

Thank you for your response. I will not be voting for Danny Scarth n the city council election. i have asked Danny just too many times for the sidewalk. As of this writing it is not on the bond election. You are right the west is the best. The east side gets the cookie crumbs. Whatever we get s at the bottom of the bucket, is our east side share. It will take the life of someone in order to get this sidewalk. The Nolan Catholic Community supports us in this effort. Let's see what happens fir our White Lake Hills Community.

It would appear that the White Lake Community will need to make a consistent and significant presence at the City Council meetings and insist that our needs for the East Side be addressed.

 

I, too, will not be voting for Danny Scarth.  Not only for this reason, but also because a couple of years ago he abused the White Lake community directory and robo-dialed my home number repeatedly more than once each night for several weeks promoting his election campaign.  That in and of itself is a deplorable action and should not be tolerated by the neighborhood residents.

 

I take exception with your assertion that "the west is the best," but agree that the East side gets the crumbs when it comes to the city budget allocation. The west side does get the lion's share of the pie when it comes to the city budget, but their neighborhoods are now showing signs of decline as well as their fair share of criminal activity. This is evidenced by routine articles documenting criminal activity in our rag of a local newspaper (Amon Carter Sr. must be spinning in his grave). 

 

I also did research for a school project at the Fort Worth Police Department of the crime statistics of the police reporting areas comparing the TCU area and the Texas Wesleyan area circa 1997 and they were virtually identical, much to the chagrin and utter disbelief of my fellow Texas Wesleyan students.

 

The west side is not the enclave of upper class exclusivity and elitism that it once sincerely believed itself to be, and I snicker every time I drive through its environs and witness its visible signs of decline.  This is somewhat unseemly on my part, but I am a lifelong East sider and am sick of being treated like a second class citizen because I live on the "wrong" side of I-35.