bremer wrote:
Ugh. Not to attack you Rick, or any other Counselor – I get that lawyers rule the world they have ruined. But I have to explode a little here.
Delays like this are absurd and totally unacceptable. It’s been 12 years since my home was built. Yes, things get done “bit by bit”, but when your talking about a 13 year wait – how is that acceptable? People don’t live forever – that’s a good chunk of my adult life spent waiting for a simple strip of ashfault. From paths, to roads, to bridges, to illegal walls, the attitude of everyone working for the town is to throw their hands up and blame someone else.
Like I said, I don’t blame any one person for it, but it sure would be nice to see someone at least get a little upset about it. These are the sort of things that need a strong mayor to lead the charge on. We need a guy able to rally counsil behind him and smack some lawyers heads together and force people to get things done - not a ribbon cutter using the office as pension plan.
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+100
It was brought up during Trails Master Plan update how annoying it is this particular section has been left fallow - literally while a many multitude of sections in much newer areas have been completed. I've only been here 10 years, and I don't back onto that section of the trail but it's frustrating enough as a trail user. It was so insanely annoying to listen to the Cousens Terrace folks bitch about their trail not being completed the year they moved it when we've had this particular section left incomplete for over a decade - in some cases approaching 2 decades (sorry to my friends who live on Cousens). It would help Irma Coulson students on both English and FI streams with walkability/bikeability for them as well as be a significant completion to the neighbourhood. Kudos to Rick for going to bat for his constituents but if nothing else it highlighted even more the discontinuity issue. I am resigned to the fact that it will never be a truly connected trail, with signficant barriers like Thompson in the way and I'll have to deal with jogs up and down to get across like at 4th line. After 2 decades of signficant sections fenced off from residents getting most of it open will be an improvement. No, not holding my breath for the 4th line to Trudeau path connection that would require a little pedestrian bridge across the creek sadly. It keeps getting pushed down the timeline every 5 years.