El Parque Lineal de Zihuatanejo

Oops. Right you are about pets. Lots of folks are trying to get them banned from the walkway. I hear their complaints on the radio almost daily.

There was a recent incident where two men riding bikes were arrested, beaten, taken to jail, brought before a judge and fined, all for getting off the dangerously narrow and busy street with their bikes and taking what USED TO BE an alternative way to transit that length of road. The road has been made narrower in parts and water drainage has once again been an afterthought, if contemplated at all.

I'm glad folks like it. I still regret that deception was used to obtain the money for this venture when we have so many other more pressing priorities being neglected, such as the Madera walkway, the PIERS (all of them), the roads (most of them), the existing green areas that already are poorly maintained. Really there is almost an endless list of higher priorities and age-old problems that remain neglected. Locals are disgusted at the neglect and decay that Zihuatanejo finds itself in under the current city administration. So it is doubly insulting to the great majority of us that this project was built with the money that was destined for a real park much more urgently needed than this embellished walkway beside a drainage canal that oftentimes is described not entirely incorrectly as an open sewer.

Calling the walkway a park is an insult to anyone who's actually seen a real park, IMHO.