NANTUCKET IS FOR SALE

To the editor:

I have decided that the Town Meeting form of government and the Democratic public election process is no longer available on Nantucket.

I was under the assumption that the people, yes the voters of Nantucket, voiced our opinion in the Special Town Election which our taxes paid for, not to build a Transportation Center in the suggested location. I guess not.

It was not so much the approving of the amount of money requested, but the actual location of the site, which most voters were opposed to. Have Engineers surveyed this property to assertain that the proper space is needed for such a center for the proper turning radius needed to have the vehicles enter and depart with sufficient clearance in an already overly congested traffic problem area on our narrow in town streets?

I cannot understand how anyone who has actually studied all of these concepts and concerns can with any true sense of understanding use this property for anything but an open park area.

A few years ago, Donald Trump had come to visit Nantucket and was unable to bring his yacht into the Harbor due to the navigational problems of size. When he was informed of the situation his response was to "Dredge the Harbor" to which our conscientious town leaders at that time had told him we could not dredge the Harbor for his yacht to enter. His response back to them was, "What do you mean, I can buy Nantucket," to which he was told, "No. You cannot buy Nantucket because Nantucket is not for sale."

I now believe that reasoning has changed. Nantucket is for sale and can be "bought" for the right amount of money and by the "right" people. Please prove me wrong!

- Joanne Pimentel-Rocha