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My honest "opinion" on the bus benches is they are just plain tacky. Yes, we need to provide decent seating for those that utilize the transportation system, but why does it have to the first company that comes along with a solution that is unattractive and detracts from our long term mission and current efforts to develop the appearance of our city?
The website and the bus benches are connected in the fact they both indicate a disregard for meeting needs that FIT with Fort Smith. FSM needs more incremental improvements over incremental changes. Our city is on the national histroic register; we have civil war history and are the new site of the US Marshall's museum. It is up to us to manage the definition of our importance and make incremental improvements that fit with the vision, history and passion of our city.