We Don't Need Another Trolley Company In Key West

Letter to our Neighbors from Mary Haffenreffer:

Dear Neighbors,

The December 15th meeting of the City Commission will make a decision that will affect our neighborhood's quality of life, convenience, and public safety for many years to come. The Commission will be deciding whether to grant or deny a franchise to City View Trolley Tours.Why do we need another sightseeing company: we already have the trolleys and trains of Historic Tours of America ("HTA"), and a court has ordered that Duck Tours must be granted a franchise, so there is no issue of monopoly. Another company will not bring one more tourist to our town, and will probably add only negligibly more sightseers to our streets and dollars to our City's revenue, since virtually all of City View's customers would be taken from HTA and the Ducks. City View would only add more congestion to our streets, which, as retired Fire Marshall Alex Vega wrote the Commission, could seriously impede the swift passage of emergency vehicles.

How responsive City View would be to our legitimate concerns has been made all too clear by the litigation threats and personal slurs that its principals and attorney have made toward the Commissioners. Why do we have to have them? We don't. We DO need as many people as possible from the neighborhood to attend the meeting because the Commissioners are aware of our presence. Hope to see you there.

Mary Haffenreffer