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Originally Posted by Rerun
Yes I can read. Where do you think the the province gets its money? From taxpayers thats where.
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But I thought you didn't care cause you're moving to Okotoks? When I was there yesterday I don't think I left the province?
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I'm fine with those if they got the best bang for their buck. I have no problem with the money being spent on necessary projects. My problem is when the city overspends on necessary projects because they have some "grandiose vision" of building something bigger, better, and more wonderful than anything else in Canada. The problem with politicians is they sometimes forget where the money really comes from... John Q Taxpayer.
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A Calatrava bridge for only $22 million is amazing bang for our buck. Good value =/= cheap.
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No we wouldn't be but there is no way you can compare the Center St Bridge and the C-train (critical pieces of infrastructure) to this monument to art that the city council wants to call a pedestrian bridge. Build the bridge... fine. Just don't go hog wild by spending lots more money by trying to put lipstick on a pig. In the end, its still a pig. I'd rather pay for the pig without lipstick than with.
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Really? No comparison at all? Citizens were outraged at the cost of the Centre St. Bridge and didn't see why we needed a bridge modeled after some fancy pants monument in Trafalgar Square when a simple bridge could do and some fancy pants sculptor to make 4 lions.
The C-Train was seen as a unnecessary and ridiculous luxury at the time by some as well.
And pig with lipstick cliche? Barf.