St. Maarten Private Eye

Road across the Lagoon - Visionary or Folly?

The Daily Herald and others have for a long time championed the proposal to build a bridge across the lagoon from the Airport to somewhere near Port De Plaisance and the border. The claim is that is will help alleviate the island's traffic problems, particularly in Simpson Bay and Cole Bay.

Daily Herald Editorial - Lagoon Road/Bridge - 27th December 2007

Bridge over lagoon now being studied - 27th December 2007

What do you think?

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Development and Construction | Roads and Traffic | Local Hero's blog | 13 comments | read more

Julien F or Julian A: Will the real PETTY please stand up?

Most recently Julian Pettty created quite a commotion on PE when he made the following statements:

“You can sit in you little cyber world with your little fake names and rub each other's ego's all you want, but until you get your message out in the mainstream with REAL PEOPLE attached to the complaints, you'll forever be having this lil members only party. This site is NOT mainstream. If you do a survey among the people that MATTER, you know, the "small man", nobody has even heard about or read this site.” – Julian A. Petty

“You bash politicians from behind a screen name the use the excuse "its your right". I beg to differ. People who hide behind a screen name are afraid that the hypocrisy of their lifestyles might render them silent if they want to give an opinon about anything. You preach about openess and transparency then hide behind a name. Hypocrites. After a while the only thing that comes from talking is SOUND! And I do believe that people are going tone deaf to this doom preaching from a bunch of ghosts.”
- Julian A. Petty

If that wasn't enough, he had the audacity to ask us to look him up. Julian, you asked us to look you up- Guess what, I did! You are most likely the indecent bus driver advancing your PAY AS YOU ENTER RULE

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Media | Roads and Traffic | sybille's blog | 10 comments | read more

Senior Citizens Rot For Free!

The only persons who will benefit from the government’s ill-conceived Bus Fare Hike are the ones who own the bus licenses, bus permits and the buses----- and they are certainly not the bus drivers.

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Roads and Traffic | sybille's blog | 3 comments | read more

Catergory 5 Potholes

Since a woman died after hitting a big pot hole, we all know that pot holes can be lethal. Only government does not know yet. In the last few weeks a lot of pot holes emerged again, ranging from category 1 till category 5. They are extra dangerous when it has rained, because then they become invisible. Here is my advice to Theo, commissioner of pot holes.

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Roads and Traffic | Unpaid Advisor's blog | 15 comments | read more