STATUS OF PERDIDO SEA WALL REPAIRS

I am trying to identify an effective method to communicate with (Gov) Bob Riley on this matter and have found a telephone number in Montgomery for Bob Riley Associates. I have left a message for them to call me and tell me how to best present my ideas on this matter, e.g. letter or email. If I get a response I will post a followup. This area needs to be addressed.

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Originally Posted by john g

I wonder how much income the bike path they are making in front of my store is going to generate? Between the trail in the park,hwy161,Marina RD and the beach hwy,there is over 30 miles of bike paths in OB. As for easy access fishing areas,not a whole hell of a lot. A lot more people come down to fish that 1000' of seawall than will come down to ride a bike path with 55mph traffic zipping by three feet away.

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Especially since you have to ride with the traffic! I would want to see who hit me in case I survived :pirate

You preach it man im with you amen

http://www.wsfa.com/story/30302798/f...cussed-tonight

At the "Future of Orange Beach" meeting tonite I hope someone calls ALDOT (and OBch) out about fixing the seawall on the west side of the Perdido Pass Bridge!

While I understand the other important issues of traffic flow on Hwy 180, etc. I hope this other long standing issue is addressed.

Politicians must take some kind of stupid drug when they get elected. Where I'm staying out here on Ft Morgan Rd there is an old decaying Governors Mansion that has not been used since the days of George Wallace. It will cost millions to bring it back to it's
former grandeur and it appears that's what the state is planning to do. In the 3 weeks I have been here there has been a flurry of activity of contractors and architects making plans to bring it back to life. IMHO it needs to be torn down and made into a parking lot for beach access. They could then take the money they were going to spend on it and invest it in the Perdido Sea Wall repairs which will generate income from fishermen.

A petition to the Orange Beach City Council to provide funding to repair the seawall, as well as to communicate citizen dismay at the lack of repair to Governor Bentley, ADCNR Commissioner Gunter Guy, ALDOT Director John Cooper, and our Baldwin County Legislative Delegation is being circulated at this time. Everyone should feel free to drop by Go Fish Bait and Tackle on the pier or Top Gun Tackle on Beach Boulevard to sign a copy if you haven't already.

Beyond this you can contact Bill Jeffries, who is circulating the petition, for more information on direct involvement in this effort. You can PM me here for his contact info, or drop by the store to get it if you like.

I know we are all frustrated about this, but complaining to one another solves nothing. It's time to take some direct action!

At some point voters have to take responsibility for putting irresponsible politicians in office. The present collection of "representatives" aren't doing the business of the people. When they ran on a platform of "smaller government", what they were saying is that the tax revenue won't come back to benefit "We, the People". How much more clearly illustrated could this be, than the State closing down Driver's License places all across the state? But they have money to put into restoring a former Governor's Mansion? Let me guess - they'll restore the building, then turn over the property to a private enterprise? See, I don't think that politicians become stupid when they take office. I think that they have no intention of serving the people who elected them and that it's corruption that characterizes them, not stupidity. I think that politicians have accurately assessed the situation and they know that citizens, including sportsmen, are so entrenched in support of a single party that the politicians have nothing to worry about. When it comes down to it, precedent has shown, citizens continue to elect representatives based on the party that they've historically self-identified with. It doesn't matter how bad things get! And they're going to get a lot worse. If there's a COMMON GOOD, Alabama politicians aren't interested. And it's not just Alabama, this is happening in some other states.

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Originally Posted by GBergmann

A petition to the Orange Beach City Council to provide funding to repair the seawall, as well as to communicate citizen dismay at the lack of repair to Governor Bentley, ADCNR Commissioner Gunter Guy, ALDOT Director John Cooper, and our Baldwin County Legislative Delegation is being circulated at this time. Everyone should feel free to drop by Go Fish Bait and Tackle on the pier or Top Gun Tackle on Beach Boulevard to sign a copy if you haven't already.

Beyond this you can contact Bill Jeffries, who is circulating the petition, for more information on direct involvement in this effort. You can PM me here for his contact info, or drop by the store to get it if you like.

I know we are all frustrated about this, but complaining to one another solves nothing. It's time to take some direct action!

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thank you, will do!

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Originally Posted by eym_sirius

At some point voters have to take responsibility for putting irresponsible politicians in office. The present collection of "representatives" aren't doing the business of the people. When they ran on a platform of "smaller government", what they were saying is that the tax revenue won't come back to benefit "We, the People". How much more clearly illustrated could this be, than the State closing down Driver's License places all across the state? But they have money to put into restoring a former Governor's Mansion? Let me guess - they'll restore the building, then turn over the property to a private enterprise? See, I don't think that politicians become stupid when they take office. I think that they have no intention of serving the people who elected them and that it's corruption that characterizes them, not stupidity. I think that politicians have accurately assessed the situation and they know that citizens, including sportsmen, are so entrenched in support of a single party that the politicians have nothing to worry about. When it comes down to it, precedent has shown, citizens continue to elect representatives based on the party that they've historically self-identified with. It doesn't matter how bad things get! And they're going to get a lot worse. If there's a COMMON GOOD, Alabama politicians aren't interested. And it's not just Alabama, this is happening in some other states.

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I agree with you 100%. Yes it is us the voter who are really to blame for the governmental mess we have in this country in every state as well as Washington DC. I'm not convinced that petitions and calling our representitives accomplish much. I'm of the opinion that the only way to get politicians to act in a timely manner is to bring attention to a problem via the news media. With that said, a few hundred people gathered at the Perdido Sea Wall calling for something to be done about the problem there, would bring out the media cameras and you can be sure that when that happens the politicians will take notice and find a solution. I live an 8 an hour drive from Gulf Shores and would make the trip if such a rally could be organized.

This is all good, but ALDOT must have money to do the work.
And before someone says "BP Money", the funds that could be used for this type of project are at least a year away from being made available.

So yes, start pushing, start petitioning, make your voice heard, but have the realistic expectation that even if the Governor & ALDOT agreed tomorrow, then the project will have to be funded, engineered, designed and then put out for construction bids. That's 2 years before machinery starts moving.