What did they expect would happen there ?

Let’s waste more tax dollars

Just another example of treating a symptom, and not dealing with the actual problem.

I think you mean ‘berm’ vs. burm.

Just remove everything, pave it over and admit that it was a poorly thought out project from the start! They probably wanted to take advantage of available provincial/federal funding dollars for a “millennium” project of some sort and that thing was the result.

Sounds like the park is gonna be a flat patch of grass?

See why you can’t have nice things?

Close the park and the undesirable activity just moves to another corner or alley. IMO a pole right in the middle with a 360 security camera would probably work as a deterrent and be a lot cheaper than redoing the park. Those that aren’t deterred can be picked up.

Considering the location, a park the looks like this is absolutely ridiculous and unneccessary.

Of course criminal activity is going to happen there. Of course people will take anything not nailed down, in this case, rocks to throw at local business.

Just flatten it.

Next thing we’ll be flattening Carney Hill…it has lots of trees too :).

how about just growing up and don’t be such a …k up you say you want respect then earn respect

vincent: “Next thing we’ll be flattening Carney Hill”

Is the RCMP seeing a lot of criminal activity at Carney Hill? I must have missed that story.

The park use to be flat grass with benches; first they removed the benches and people would sit on the grass so they removed the grass so that people would not hang out. The park use to be call the GTP park as the stone cairn was marking the day the railway came to PG.

What as waste of time and money just to have it wrecked all over again. The problem is not this park, the problem is the group of people who hang out at the corner of 3rd and George St every night after 8pm. I have personally witnessed RCMP drive by these people and look the other way, not even stopping to make a presence, these people do not even trying to hide the stuff they are doing. I have also seem some RCMP stop and chat but it is very few that actually stop. I witness most nights people selling drugs, doing drugs, hooking, pimping, john’s driving around for hours, drinking in public and then throwing all their garbage all over the place and not caring. It is ridiculous to think the city is going to pay to do a facelift on Millenium Park when something needs to be done on this corner first before anything should be done at this park. We should make more effort into putting a police presence in effect downtown. Not all the people are bad but it just seems that no one cares. The funding could be used towards something better than face lifting a park.

You forget that the solutions are always about masking the symptoms, not actually fixing the underlying issues.

These issues include: poverty, affluence disparity, fractured family groups, dysfunctional family groups, addictions and little to no good guidance at an early age.

Keep pouring the money back into the schools the score well and take it from the schools that need it more.

It’s 7 blocks away from our new police palace. It shouldn’t be that difficult to patrol the park on a regular basis. Heck, the entire downtown should be crime free given the proximity of the police station.