Laura Goes to the Park

Laura commutes between Hoboken's parks

One learns a lot about folks when they run for office.

As everyone knows, appendages that are not used atrophy and fall off.  For example, if you stopped breathing, your nose would fall off.  If you stopped writing your fingers would drop one-by-one.  If you stopped listening, your ears would shrivel and blow away.  And if you stopped walking...  you know.

Is that why we never see Vision for Hoboken's Laura Miani photographed from the waist down?

Here is what she wrote in Patch, republished in this week's Hoboken Reporter Letters section:

The planning and execution of 1600 Park was disgraceful. That project was stalled for two years in the name of public safety, with the sad irony that it is still a dangerous walk. Park Avenue is already in need of repair by the field. Parents must now juggle to get children from Mama Johnson Field, to the High School, to 1600 Park, all with no public transportation options between those locations.

Oh, dear!

Now that we know poor Laura's legs have blackened and shriveled like raisins from inactivity, we are saddened at her degraded physical condition. Had she done what the rest of us do to travel between parks (a forward and backward motion of our leg-appendages called walking) she might still have legs and feet.
 

Walking does provide other health benefits- not just exercise but burning calories, which we gals have to watch.  Inertia  makes our cabooses big and lumpy. Am I right, ladies?

 So sad! 

Now, I must correct Laura on her statement about "no transportation" between parks.  How long has she lived in Hoboken?

 Doesn't Miani know that know every day TENS* of Hoboken residents travel between parks- and all over Hoboken- on City buses called the HOP? 

 Oh God, if only Laura knew that before her legs fell off!

Well, for the rest of you out there who CAN be saved... you will have to WALK to a HOP bus stop, then you will have to WALK from where you get off the HOP to your desitination.

Is that too much walking for you?  It might be for Laura.  Perhaps she could have found a taxi from where the HOP let her off to her destination (a park?) while she had legs.

It's not too late for YOU.

Here is a map of the HOP system- and you can read about Hoboken's great public transportation system on the City's web site.  Did you know that there was an interactive map for you to see WHERE the buses were in real time?

Wow, the Zimmer administration has done amazing work.

Speaking of Hoboken's wonderful and convenient HOP system which serves parents like Laura Miani and elderly residents...

Did you know that moron Tim Occhipinti voted against replacing 5 aged HOP buses- which caused a reduction in service for lines used by elderly- THEN Tim voted NO to replace 2 HOP buses destroyed b y Hurricane Sandy!

 It's TRUE.  Tim's 'NO' votes caused a REDUCTION in HOP service to our elderly.

What would Tim Occhipinti RATHER spend the City's money on?  A PARADE.

"NO"on HOP buses because of Tim Occhipinti... Timmy would rather PARTY

* "Hundreds" revised to "tens" as commenters report the decimation of Hoboken's  HOP system by Tim Occhipinti, Beth Mason, Mike Russo and Terry Occhipinti's  "NO" votes on funding new buses to replace those in disrepair and destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.