Destroy a neighborhood to help people bypass Brownsville

Double crony time leaving the residents to suffer.

A number of residents in West Brownsville wish the CCRMA [to abandon the idea], since the toll road would run smack through the neighborhood, on the right-of-way currently occupied by the Union Pacific railroad tracks. The tracks are slated for removal under a separate county project.

Martha Marroquin, for one, said she and other West Brownsville residents who oppose the toll road “have not been listened to,” despite repeating themselves many times to authorities. West Brownsville, the city’s first subdivision, is a historic mix of dilapidated properties and well maintained homes, some of them restored. The neighborhood contains households of varying income levels and diverse ethnicities.

Marroquin says she’s open to just about anything — as long as it’s not a toll road.