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Hamilton Ontario City Issues => General City issues => Topic started by: WRCU2 on May 28, 2008, 06:50:08 am



Title: A Mayorial Viision of Unkempt Medians
Post by: WRCU2 on May 28, 2008, 06:50:08 am
I chose not to post this to Hallmark's blog because of a potentially bad word and as of this posting here, I haven't read a single one of the 38 comments accumulated since yesterday:

http://hallmarks.thespec.com/2008/05/a-median-matter.html#comments

I would've been commenting on the Mayor's pitch to allow Hamilton's highway medians to go fallow with this article:

http://thespec.com/News/Local/article/375540

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Since Mayor Fred Eisenberger is wily in some things, should we allow medians to fallow wildly of green things? Perhaps he can sense what's wallowing amok alongside the embankments of the controversial superhighway fustercluck (thanks Ryan). He defended the idea of forming a local stakeholder committee by saying. "I don't think it's an attempt to have one message. It's an attempt to understand what all the messages are."

http://thespec.com/News/Local/article/375508

It's ashame council doesn't wish to share in his wisdom and portent. There is a bright side to these Under-Naturalized superhighway projects and Public Works should pay better attention to their WM tending. Maintenance requires Way Much more than just bending and trending.

In a future glance towards wildflower and treed medians, tall enough to swallow our own littering display, one can glimpse the subject of vibrant peak oil sketches by budding Canadian artists someday. Many years down the road these canvassing works could fetch millions for the action blocking catch quirk pavilions:

http://thespec.com/News/Local/article/375535

Unfortunately it seems, without a clear understanding of what all the messages are, toll collectors will continue to reap as tole painter's spray cans become all the more cheap amongst Hamilton's most irreproachably sheepish of peeps.

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/23/2364.asp


Title: Re: A Mayorial Viision of Unkempt Medians
Post by: editor on May 30, 2008, 12:42:29 pm
Greg...
What is reflected here is the total inconsistencies within Hamilton's city hall, no one having an overall perspective; a grab bag of ideas floating in every direction
and no accountability. These issues continue daily, it's no wonder that Hamilton is in the state that it is...down the drain.
http://hallmarks.thespec.com/2008/05/down-the-drain.html

Such incompetence creates such mistrust making it almost impossible to develop any forward motion, a merry-go-around, like rats in a cage searching for food
and end up devouring themselves...Such realities have cost us millions in the past and it seems, the more things change the more they remain the same...



Title: Re: A Mayorial Viision of Unkempt Medians
Post by: WRCU2 on May 31, 2008, 05:32:33 am
Don, I see you're trying to make a connection. Today there were 71 comments about unkempt medians and I still haven't bothered to read them. As you know, I did post a short comment in the Hallmark's blog that you provided a link for above. I see that Cal and MAW made an appearance there as well.

What I see is a city hall scrambling for some fast cash and cutting corners. We (Tracy and I) just learned a month ago that the previous owner of our home, which we purchased last year, was over $500 delinquent in the water bill. No problem, the city went directly to our mortgage lender for it without notice. Technically, this utility should not have been in arrears when the house transferred to us. We have no recourse except perhaps a long drawn out and expensive legal battle which is always a lose or lose-more situation.

The truth is that our city is just as broke as we are as individuals. Everyone is getting squeezed and we're all about to burst our pipes.

The trouble is that our leadership is not being upfront with us while the depression truly sets in. We're rationed falsehoods like this:

Flaherty: Canada not in recession
http://thespec.com/News/Local/article/378140

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"There's some brightness on the horizon and certainly reason for confidence," he (Flaherty) said.

He also added that the rest of the economy is doing well with 120,000 jobs created in the first four months of 2008, wage increases at an annual rate of 6.2 per cent and corporate profits rising by 9.9 per cent.

His assessment was backed by Quebec Finance Minister Monique Jerome-Forget, and to a lesser extent by Ontario's Dwight Duncan.

The biggest deception is a faked annual wage increases at 6.2%, because unless you're a government employee on the taxpayers dole, the private sector wages have been flat lined for a couple of years. The Canadian Auto Workers accepted a wage freeze for the next few years. And because of this, consumer confidence is ultra low and people aren't buying anything. The banks are also feeling the squeeze:

Canada's big banks take earnings tumble
http://thespec.com/News/Business/article/378113

- The real reason for not cutting medians is not enough cash
- Something big requiring a superhighway's capacity is just up the road
- It is trivial to bury large capacity pipes during gigantic road construction
- In the business of water, plumbers are the masters
- The fastest way to Kansas, is to click your heels three times and say, "There's no place like home"
- Contrary to what we've been told, the future isn't friendly for little fishies.
- Carp are greasy but tasty like pork, that clings to yore fork.

So in knowing a little bit of what lies ahead, the question for us now is, what can be done to lessen the hurt and heighten the hope as we plunge into our forlorn future?