Sunday, November 29, 2009
Time for Arlington to Accelerate Replacement of Street Lights
While other cities around the USA are using federal stimulus funds to replace thousands of inefficient, energy-wasting incandescent street lights with energy-efficient sodium and LED street lighting, Arlington County Government is resisting citizen suggestions that the County do the same. Moreover, "community leaders" who the County Board appoints to various advisory groups, are engaging in a smear campaign against any "green" activist who calls for the County to embark on major renewable and energy efficiency programs.
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Who benefits from maintaining Arlington's inefficient street lights that use more energy as they get older and dimmer?
Arlington's taxpayers?
Arlington's pedestrians?
Arlington's motorists?
Dominion Resources / Virginia Power?
Biggest bunch of rumor mongers against green activists is none other than ACTA-Arlington County Taxpayers Association.
Pop, you forgot to include the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, which takes its orders from Dominion Resources insofar as energy conservation is concerned.
They'd better start using stimulus money to replace ancient water mains county-wide. Important projects like this are ignored because any spare change in the budget is designated for artsy-fartsy projects that only benefit special interest groups
Our so-called civic association used neighborhood conservation funds for beautification projects. We badly need upgraded street lighting.
Something has to be done about the proliferation of the so-called "Carlyle" lighting fixtures. Not only are these lighting fixtures ugly but they put as much light onto buildings and into the sky as they put on the street and sidewalk.
Fairlington civic association is another bunch of rumor mongers whose strings get pulled by the County Board. If you ask to have Fairlington's old mercury vapor light bulbs replaced by sodium bulbs (same light poles and fixtures) you get called a "troublemaker" and worse.
Yo, I am also sick and f'ing tired of Nancy Hunt or one of her f'ing fellow Fairlington Citizens Association ward heelers calling residents "wife beaters" because we want the streets repaved. These people should get a f'ing life and get the f--- out of MY life.
County is putting even more money into Washington-Lee to amke it a palace of education. Looks like Wakefield will never be replaced.
I and other Fairlington residents want nothing to do with the Fairlington Citizens Association, Inc., which operates primarily as a facilitator for corporations and local government, and secondarily as a social club. This organization is no longer a civic association.
The so-called "civic associations" are just another layer of bureaucracy that prevents needed improvements from being implemented.
Average age of civic federation delegates who attend monthly meetings and vote for or against important issues is about 75.
The entire neighborhood conservation program is a disgrace. Fairlington is an excellent example. The streets don't get paved, the street medians get beautified.
Who is the Urban Village Idiot in charge of the neighborhood conservation program?
Most of the CivFed delegates (who get to vote on our behalf on important issues) are so old they can barely walk into CivFed meetings. I attended one CivFed meeting and will never attend another.
That's an exaggeration, anon., but not much of an exaggeration.
Christine Nixon - 703-228-3830
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