“Mayor Jyoti Gondek” Is Not A Character In A Tim Burton Movie

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But she should be.

The company Calgary ordered its electric buses from for a pilot project has gone tits up without delivering a single bus after years of waiting.

A comms flack from the mayor’s office has finally addressed the issue somewhat by saying the city dropped the contact with Vicinity “earlier this year” when it realized the buses are never coming. Earlier this year is a way to sugarcoat saying a few weeks ago. At the end of August even, the city website still just said it was waiting for Vicinity to deliver despite some “supply chain” issues.

On the bright side, the city says they never gave any money to Vicinity.

On the downside, the city spent a lot to build charging stations for buses that don’t exist. They haven’t disclosed how much has been lost there.

Further, the city is saying it is sourcing more electric buses for a pilot despite the first pilot being a total failure.

29 Replies to ““Mayor Jyoti Gondek” Is Not A Character In A Tim Burton Movie”

  1. Earlier this year, GoneBitch said it was council’s obligation to properly take care of the public purse. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a clue what that means.

    1. One way this may end is when an electric bus battery ignites with a bunch of bus-people inside trying to jump out the window.

      Think it can’t happen …. I think it can.

  2. It seems to me its pretty cheap to look at what other cities have done, where there are failures and successes.
    https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/oc-transpo-e-bus-order-delayed-due-to-limited-availability-from-manufacturers-1.7070070
    The stupidity of Gang Green and their cultish rush to “save the planet” is absurd and will be historically viewed as nothing short of ignorant madness.
    Aesop’s fable, the Tortoise and the Hare, seems sort of comparable.
    The Green rabbit doesn’t have a nap, its mentally unsound and takes some prescription drugs, washed down with red wine and followed by a dispensary cannon.

    1. Yup. You’d be hard-pressed to find public transit stories that top Ottawa’s for generational incompetence and stupidity. And the press just keeps sweeping up the cat-turds instead of calling for heads to roll.

    2. Well, First off GoneDyKe was Installed to do precisely this. Not one person I know in Calgary had ever even heard of this BITCH prior to our last Municipal election)…as were NUMEROUS other Big City mayors across this country. CHOW.??

      To a women (real & imagined), they are ALL part of the HOAX-SCAM of supposed man made climate change. Their modus operandi is twofold: Scream to the Heavens that the Earth is Burning up – using that to Rape the City’s Finances via Purchasing shit that will NEVER Work.

      They know damned well these things are useless…and very Flammable.
      I’d like to know who got their paws greased..?

      1. steakman… you just became my new favourite.
        Yep… get in the back, men! WOMAN is in the driver’s seat and it’s going be FANTASTIC!

      2. Just because you weren’t aware doesn’t mean others weren’t. She was active and vocal on council before becoming mayor, and she voted in lockstep with the Purple Jesus. Even during her campaign, she was flogged as his successor (by both sides), and it’s a big part of why idiots here voted for her.

    3. From what i have observed over the past few years, It is plain to see that Calgary is working hard to be
      AT ONE WITH STUPIDITY.

      There has been a noticeable move to the loony left judging by the wogs Calgarians have electing as mayor.

      I hope Premier Smith can over ride some this insanity ….

  4. And we keep doing the same thing over and over because we are …………
    Sad but true.

  7. On the bright side, the city says they never gave any money to Vicinity.

    Horse shit. A contract of this magnitude does not get executed without progress billings. You don’t just show up one day w/ a passel of completed electric buses & ask for the entire amount of the contract.

      1. But – if you buy from a company actually producing a working product you can take delivery of 6 at a time, cash on delivery. Something like a year ago I suggested that if Calgary wanted electric buses that don’t work they should buy them from Edmonton that has $60 million of electric buses that don’t work. A great deal for both.

    2. A giant steaming pile of horseshit. No money paid my ass. No company can afford to hire employees, buy expensive materials, and create plant and equipment for such a task without GIGANTIC capital outlay. And what of all the third party expenses for paying the battery suppliers, etc. So … who or what PAID for all that? The Federal government? Banks? Blackrock/Vanguard? NGO’s? … maybe Neil Young put his money where his simpleton brain is?

      Mayor is a LIAR. Somebody, or some entity has taken another “green” bath

    3. They should have known the company will not deliver, so why did they become the selected vendor?

      btw, ÿ is a valid character in email though accidental in my case

  8. In a province that necessarily relies on NG for electricity, no mater how many bird choppers and solar farms it subsidizes, battery buses don’t make sense even if they worked which they don’t. This is what happens when the Eloi elect Jacobins and Bolsheviks pimping the green theocracy hysteria. Declaring a “climate emergency’, suing “Big Oil”, enacting fascist “Tree Bylaws”, bicycle lanes, mythical recycling, engaging in federal and provincial areas of responsibility, while making housing as expensive as they can with central planning and adopting every energy obsessed building code expense they get handed. Most local politicians aren’t competent to write a 200 word paragraph describing the workings of their water, sewer, or garbage systems and yet they run on saving the planet, social work, or some other virtue-signaling trope.

    1. As usual, blame the TV. That machine indoctrinates vast numbers of the plebes, convincing them that the earth is burning up and that only this or that political candidate can fix it. The plebes themselves know nothing about electricity or any other infrastructure, so they don’t recognize incompetence in politicians that claim that solar and wind can fix everything, politicians who have degrees in Law or Social Services or Interior Decorating or Education or whatever other field that is totally irrelevant to energy or civil engineering. And they don’t listen to anyone who does know the stuff. Even the TV journalists have no idea of the disaster to which they are leading us.

  10. Aug 29th it was reported she borrowed $150 million (tax-payers will be extorted 110% of that for corruption) while the province payed for the charging stations (tax-payers ask how much?) and Trudeau printed $325 million (tax payers screwed) for Calgary’s 259 electric buses, at the same time Edmonton was suing $82 million because half their 60 buses are continually out of service.

    It’s a bankruptcy plan.

    https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/nelson-city-charges-ahead-into-electric-bus-lottery

  11. Steak:
    FYI Gondek was a Ward 3 councilor prior to running for mare. She is an acolyte of the purple jesus and was a ‘consultant’ to the city before that.

  12. Wow! The city of Calgary managed to find a company who would build electric buses for NO MONEY!!! And they wonder when it goes tits up and can’t deliver anything!

  13. Every time you convert energy from one form to another there is some loss in efficiency.
    That the burning of hydrocarbons is transferred from the back end of a bus to some generating plant in the boonies doesn’t reduce the amount of hydrocarbons burned.
    In reality you burn more due to the process of creating and charging batteries.
    With present technology, the old trolley method is still the most efficient use of electricity in transportation. Cities without the luxury of money to burn have gone with the Bus Rapid Transit model on a few critical routes.

    1. “the old trolley method is still the most efficient use of electricity in transportation”

      The assholes on Edmonton City Council ripped out the 100 year old trolley bus system in 2009 just as it started making sense. Blithering idiots.

  15. From what i have observed over the past few years, It is plain to see that Calgary is working hard to be
    AT ONE WITH STUPIDITY.

    There has been a noticeable move to the loony left judging by the wogs Calgarians have electing as mayor.

    I hope Premier Smith can over ride some this insanity ….

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