The one thing people all over the world imagine Canadians would be good at.
Globe and Mail- Toronto falls down on snow removal
The one thing people all over the world imagine Canadians would be good at.
Globe and Mail- Toronto falls down on snow removal
How much are Torontonians willing to pay for better snow removal?
Decide how much, organize, run candidates, and then vote for politicians that will deliver.
That would require planning and if you’ve ever seen these mental midgets in action you’d know that’s not in their wheelhouse.
If Torontonians wanted efficient snow removal they should vote for someone who can provide it.
My Safeway grocery store is very good at snow removal.
Torontonians want everything, like a lot of people, but they don’t want to have to pay for it.
Call in the Army again! Oh, wait…
Can you imagine calling in the Canadian military, and they say they don’t have the equipment?
and I’m NOT blaming the military here….
I was thinking the very same thing. I actually hesitated to post that comment, as I did not want to offend those who serve and those who have. But the politicians who have gutted the forces can f*ck right off.
Bet they did a bang up job of the bicycle lanes.
I can’t actually think of anything.
How about a free electric snowmobile in every driveway.
Or at least every first nations driveway.
Mediocrities last stand.
But , but ..we must have bike lanes doncha know . Recently watched a Burlington snow blower trying to figure out where to put the snow as he dutifully cleaned the new bike lanes on Plains Road . Theses municipal councils are so out of touch with reality it’s mind boggling .
Probably blew the snow onto the street.
L – Canadian politicians. not always so good at snow removal; but at snow jobs, they excell.
If they weren’t, how would they get away with debt financing on our credit card.
“…but expected residents to clear the public sidewalk. This never made sense..” And here is why all media is garbage. Expecting people to contribute to a community without government to do it doesn’t make sense. GFY G&M, I resent the years I spent delivering your paper BEFORE 6:00AM all the time regardless of weather when I was 10.
41% average federal tax, provincial tax 10%ish.
After tax 15% HST
Property tax 1% of property value.
Tax harder that’ll solve it.
How hard is it to hire a couple of people to sweep off snow from aging garages. It is february and every year it snows a lot.
If you want to see a town that knows snow removal, look at Rossland, BC. Given the town can have up to 200 inches per year (that’s on the high end), the town knows how to clear the roads. Mind, the townfolk do not have some other amenities common elsewhere as a high percentage of the annual budget goes for snow removal, but at least they can get around.
Very much back in the day, we lived on a road where parking had to be on the uphill side (the bank on the other side wasn’t to be trusted, particularly during the winter when the plough shoved the snow that way). Parking the wrong way on the uphill side also meant that one was headed out the only navigable road in the winter. So that’s how everyone parked.
Come the day when the local constabulary (RCMP) did a sweep and ticketed everyone. Dad and a neighbour from across the street (who was parking in front of us) went up to city council and asked that a bylaw be passed to allow cars to be parked on the uphill side of the street and facing out on our street. Bylaw, no trouble. Never did hear if Dad and neighbour had tickets quashed.
Fast forward many years, and a new RCMP constable decided to clean up the parking issues before the winter; all the uphill parkers on our street got tickets. Mum took a couple of them up to the local RCMP office to dispute and is met with young constable giving her a lecture about safe parking. Mum interrupts with “I think you need to check the city bylaws”; constable does. Tickets are promptly cancelled; don’t know if Mum got an apology.
I used to plow professionally, a college lot, and hockey arena, and can say, there are 2 types of people out there, stupid ones, and stupider ones.
Which category are you?
^^^^^^^^^^^!!!!!!
Thanks for saving me the trouble.
By gym’s logic, no one is smarter than he is.
Lets be clear, Comrade Chow and her fellow travellers will do nothing about it other than study the contract, and study it some more because they want to punish drivers, and as long as they can do that, nothing else matters.
That’s why they built the CN Tower so high…
Well, when you blow (pardon the pun) hundreds of thousands, or more, on the alphabet crew something suffers, namely the more important stuff.
Used to work for a municipality – the ability of politicians to cut back on basic services to fund pet projects is unbounded. One muni cut out water sewer maintenance to fund a sportsplex then had to pay extra to replace what they delayed maintenance on. Beware of a mayor looking for a legacy.
But onto the good news – I’ll take the contract for half their cost and give a snow removal by July 1 guarantee
Sorry but Montreal did not fair any better.
Montreal was no better