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Originally Posted by Beatle17
not what I said at all. Every City project ends up in the never ending cycle of trying to avoid doing any work. Here are a few that involved the idiots at City Hall getting involved:
- 16th Ave North, prices and plans approved Alderman Druh gets involved and adds 19% of the total in "wants" for her area and drives many businesses out
- North LRT, no comment needed other than the province asking for an accounting because they "worked" on it for 10 years and still haven't finalized the plans, with the cost doubling or tripling for the full project. Good luck getting $3B more from the province and feds
-local city art, the Big Blue Ring, The Pile of Garbage on the west side, the stream of boulders at the City water plant that will be seen by nobody, the fish on the Glenmore Trail underpass at MacLeod (good idea getting people to look at this as they drive one of the worst roads in the province. The design is so bad that it is under water every time it rains hard) etc
- the CRL for the east village, basically all used up and they haven't even got to the housing that is supposed to pay it back.
- the arena district, what is the plan.
- property tax every year Nenshi has been in power, and business taxes so high that people would rather close their business than pay the ridiculous amount.
Need more? Tell us what his Highness and group of idiots have accomplished (don't mention the east village because it is a library, garage, music hall which is nice and couple of condo's by the Drop Inn Center)
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I have trouble taking seriously anyone who names a handful of "bad" things some of which predated the majority of this council, says you're not allowed to mention the highest-profile objectively good things that have been accomplished in the last decade, refers to council collectively as a "group of idiots," and needs to be spoon-fed any positives because they can't put half the effort in they spent on coming up with negatives.
Honestly, it's a free forum for you to share your views, but it seems like your issue is with the concept and reality of a municipal government. In which case, move to a pokey little town where nothing changes ever, no money is spent because there's no money to spend, and be happy.
How about you show us a better city council. Prove you're informed. Give us your reference point. It's not like this one is close to the best in the world, so it shouldn't be difficult. You do have a reference point for how you'd like the city to run, right?