Kris Schoech: Boulder’s attitudes and sense of entitlement

Now that I have lived in Boulder for a little over two years I think I can make the following generalities about the City of Boulder. If Boulder is the one of the fittest cities in the country why is there a pedestrian cross walk 50 yards away from the official traffic light cross walk? Seriously, I can throw a rock from the pedestrian cross walk to the official light crosswalk. Can’t the average Joe just walk to the official cross walk? Whoever keeps putting up those pedestrian cross walks is asking for an accident to occur. We better watch out for this person making those decisions or else he/she could wind up on the Boulder City Council. Speaking of the Boulder City Council, hey I’ll shovel my walks by 12 noon if you plow my street by 12 noon – deal?  It seems to me that the Boulder City Council make minority decisions that affect the majority of the Boulder citizens. Hey what’s with the public parking lots in the City of Boulder? If they were any smaller the motorcycles and bikers wouldn’t fit in them let alone my truck. The parking lots over at the 29th St. Mall have really good parking spaces reserved for “alternative fuel vehicles”. Please don’t tell anyone but I park my truck in those spaces and hope that the “alternative fuel parking police” don’t ticket my truck. It seems to me that the City of Boulder wants us to “go green” and would prefer that you don’t drive in the city unless you can. Confusing yes, but not as confusing as the open space argument that is abundant in Boulder. Here’s what I see, the hikers and joggers dislike the mountain bikers who dislike the dog owners. Since they all live in Boulder they are “entitled” to their open space. For the amount of money the City of Boulder spends on open space you would think there would be enough open space for everyone. Finally, anytime there is a problem with the University of Colorado the City of Boulder seems to flexes its’ muscles and ridicules students, staff and the administration. The way I look at it, the City of Boulder wouldn’t be what it is today without the University of Colorado. Without the University, Boulder would be like Longmont except for a better view of the Flatirons. That’s not a knock on Longmont or its’ citizens it just that the City of Boulder sometimes forgets how its’ bread gets buttered. I have gotten use to using the phrase “well that’s Boulder”!
Kris Schoech
Boulder