ApreZIHar Lo Que Tenemos

The mayor is on a mission to pour as much of his company's cement as he can, and now he says he's going to extend the Paseo del Pescador design inland. This does not sound like something we need or want. He seems unable to attend to any other problem that doesn't involve pouring cement.

Do Hizonner's plans include extending the Paseo del Pescador around the south end of Playa La Madera, to connect with Playa La Ropa? I'm guessing La Casa Que Canta wouldn't be thrilled.

I'm guessing he got too much pu$hback when he suggested that idea to the folks at Casa Que Canta, though he suggested it a couple of years ago. No, he wants to tear up all the paving stones we call adoquín on the pedestrian streets downtown beginning in January, the peak tourist season. That would be Calle Cuauhtémoc for 2 blocks, the entire Calle Pedro Ascencio, the entire Calle Agustín Ramírez, and Calle Hermenegildo Galeana from Calle Ejido to Pedro Ascencio. It's a lot of damn cement he wants to pour, I guess using the same colored little paving blocks he used along the downtown Paseo del Pescador and the same stupid planters with the same ugly plants. It'll raise the ambient temperature by several degrees. The thing is, those streets look fine just as they are, and it will hurt businesses on those streets while construction is going on, same as it hurt the businesses along the Paseo del Pescador when he "remodeled" it. I wonder if any of those businesses have been consulted? Just as we get named a Pueblo Mágico, he wants to tear up what little quaintness remains of Zihuatanejo to make a few pesos for his and his wife's political ambitions. When he first took office, my wife and I only asked one thing of him: to please deal with the noise downtown. Downtown Zihuatanejo is louder during the night than it is during the day with bars thumping all around town and boombox cars blasting up and down the streets. But the problem has only worsened during his tenure as has public insecurity. We deserve better than this.