Airport’s $20 'premium parking' should include shade: Letters to the Editor
Airport’s $20 'premium parking' should include shade
Just a suggestion for the El Paso International Airport, if you are going to have "premium" parking, and charge me $20 a day to park there, then I am going to expect it to be covered parking.
I came back from a weekend trip yesterday and waited for my Uber at the rideshare pick up which gave me a chance to thoroughly see the "premium" parking, and I was a little surprised that it did not include any shade covers or something to protect those cars from the elements. $20 a day for uncovered parking is kind of steep. I could park down the street at one of the valet services for less than that, and my car would be inside!
Joel Lara
East El Paso
More: El Paso, take driver's safety seriously: Letters to the Editor
Driver safety, how do we fix a problem that does not really exist?
In response to last week’s letter, "El Paso, take driver's safety seriously," our border is haunted by a familiar history. I know I should no longer be surprised that someone comes to El Paso, spends only a little bit of time here, and suddenly feels confident enough to announce that they have identified a profound problem in our city.
The reader never gets to their point about how to take driver safety seriously, but how do we fix a problem that does not really exist? A tougher police state or more militarization perhaps? Maybe that reader believes that our driver's need better education, otherwise how could we possibly ignore such brutal statistics? 15 deaths, they cite, while Daniel Borunda notes in his article that those fatalities are less than those recorded in 2023 during the same time span, which were already on a downward trajectory from the year before.Maybe the deaths will get worse, maybe they won't. We are a city with cross traffic coming from different countries and different states with different driving cultures and different understanding for how to maneuver ourselves in tight spaces. It’s the nature of our border.
None of that gets mentioned in the opinion piece. Instead, it performs exactly what it means to: create panic along our border to add to the national fervor.
Pilar Munoz
South El Paso
More: See plans for El Paso Water's future new headquarters from its $47 million project
Never forget ‘the dirty’ done to downtown
I just wanted to remind everyone the dirty that El Paso Water did to the downtown economy by not building its new headquarters downtown. Every time I pass the construction on Hawkins Boulevard. I am reminded of it, and I will never forget it and want to make sure that nobody else forgot it either.
Too bad we can’t elect El Paso Water executives the way we do City Council, they would’ve been ousted years ago.
Jeremy Vasquez
East El Paso
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