This editorial is a *little* better than the article I posted last week. At least here they treat prositution more as a symptom than as a cause of the perceived problems on the Trail (although it's still called the "common link" among all the real problems):
[url]http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061002/OPINION/610020626/1030/OPINION01[/url]
The editorial starts:
[quote]Major sections of Tamiami Trail between downtown Bradenton and downtown Sarasota are bleak and repulsive. Planting greenery, installing attractive street lights and adding public art would do wonders for the eyes -- and help establish a vision for economic revival.
But, as people who live and work near the busy road can attest, aesthetics are only part of what ails the Trail. Crime is the greater source of pain.
As the Herald-Tribune's Dale White reported last week, a committee of public officials and civic leaders hoping to revitalize the Trail is pointing to prostitution as a common link connecting drug dealing, burglaries and other crimes plaguing the street. And it is a chronic problem on multiple stretches of the Trail. [/quote]
Jose
