Alachua County Commission candidate, John Martin, wrote a great letter to the Gainesville Sun!  See his letter below, or link to the letter at the Gainesville Sun by clicking here.

All this time and money and still no improved Tower Road.

I recently attended the County Commission meeting concerning improvements to the Tower Road corridor. Two numbers grabbed my attention: 1999 and one million.

The first meeting to discuss plans for the area was in 1999, and since that time the commission has spent over one million of your tax dollars on studies. And commissioners still have no concrete plans, and no money, for further studies let alone actual work.

How much in taxes have been paid since 1999 in that area? How much has the road degraded in that time, and how much will it cost now? How long should taxpayers be expected to wait for their government to actually do its core job?

John Martin
Hawthorne, Fl