Fort Lauderdale Green?

Is Fort Lauderdale really the green city that the city government is promoting? Maybe, but not in the ecological sense. As I did my morning ride I looked around and saw the waste that ordinary citizens are not supposed to do.

Examples include:

• Most of the public have there spirinklers running every morning. Resicents are only allowed to water twice a week.
• Traffic lights cycle for no apparent reason stopping traffic unncessarilly.
• The city has crews out most mornings pressure cleaning the sidewalk along the beach (or they have gas blowers blowing sand in the street.
• Bridges like Andrews and 3rd Street on the New River go up for boat traffic in the middle of rush hour creating traffice jams downtown.

The city might be green, but it is green about tax revenues not conservation. They are more concerned about paver and streetlight projects than being good stewards of the citizen's tax money. As I look around it erks me to see how they using the money I pay in taxes.

Granted, I beleive in conversation and preserving natural areas but I am not tree hugger. I beleive that we should preserve wilderness and use natural resources wisely (not wastefully).

Hopefully with the upcoming mayor and commission election in Fort Lauderdale we will see a change for the better. (I hope, but that is another blog!)