Comments on: Relic Of The Past: Florida Removing Motorist Aid Call Boxes

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 04:45:35 +0000

Around a thousand dollars per call to subsidize those who don’t want to spring for cell phones with GPS locators which can instantly call for help and direct it properly even if they can not walk to the nearest box?

Yank ‘em out to save lives.
Don’t spend taxpayers’ money to hurt people.

By the way ANY cell phone can call 911. You don’t even have to have a working number.

By: Jamaal A. Bivens

Jamaal A. Bivens — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:45:13 +0000

I agree with Terri. Apparently as late as last year they were in use. What about those who happen to have an emergency whose cell phones have died or, worse yet, don’t even own a cell phone? I’ve seen payphones here and there and to this very day people still use them. It’s one thing to leave them alone “just in case” and it’s another thing to wipe them out. So, pretty much, those in need of them will be left to walk, potentially, many miles for assistance. Pitiful, I think.

By: Janice

Janice — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:12:24 +0000

What about the stubborn Senior citizens who do not USE cell phones?? My father is one of them, I’d like to know he still had a resource if he were to need help.

By: Safebear

Safebear — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 19:12:50 +0000

If they leave it there they have to put something over it so no one uses it. Then they have to maintain that bag, sign or whatever so that it stays there. If they just left it there and didn’t maintain it there is the chance someone would use it and it wouldn’t work and the lawsuit would be phenomenal.

It’s a $200,000 hit now but as the article says, it could save $1 million/year later.

As far as a price on help in an emergency, I’d like to see the stats on how many of the calls they did get from these boxes were duplicates of those they received from cell phones and then which call came first, the cell phone or the emergency box.

By: Terri Sanders

Terri Sanders — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 16:29:02 +0000

so the state has 200,000 dollars laying around to remove these boxes? Smarter and cheaper decision would have been to leave them alone and not try to maintain them…after all what possible harm could they do????And at least 1,143 people used them last year to call for help….can you really put a price on help in an emergency?