Recently I had a letter in the Post about the Washington Street bridge over the railroad at Clark Street.

The city had said $425,000 of the $5 million that had been set aside for the bridge had been spent on “planning and designing.” I felt this was such a vulgar sum that taxpayers deserved an answer. I still do.

If someone were paid $500 per hour, that would be $20,000 per week or $80,000 per month. That means the job would have taken well over five months. A “planner and designer” would need only one job like this about every three years to live in comfort.

Folks, any way you slice it that is one heck of a bunch of “planning and designing” and I haven’t heard anyone questioning these figures.

As I have said before, there is a dead snake in the creek and it is getting bigger instead of going away.

Anyone who isn’t concerned enough to ask questions and expect answers must be brain dead.

R.G. Hollowell

Vicksburg