Mayor Romero sees waterfront deal in new year
— by Jeffrey Wisniewski — 28 December 2011 — Comments Off
The Patch is running a series of “prominent Herculeans” and their predictions for the new year.
New mayor Dan Romero predicts success on the waterfront: “The Bayfront/ITC agreement will be finished and we will have a clearer outlook of state and federal grants to fund the project. Hopefully, we will be able to start the continuation of John Muir to the Bayfront, marking the beginning of the Bayfront/ITC Project.”
On the one hand, this is the same rhetoric we have always heard (again, and again). Nothing happens. Empty words have never weighed so much.
On the other hand, this is a new reform council. New leadership (Romero will probably change our idea of what the mayor is, by any definition of the word) may bring new, welcome results, something that adds this project to the success portion of the pass-fail scale of life.
Time will tell, I guess, but patience — if not completely eroded — wears thin. Enough with the damn talk. We need action.