Poll Shows Your Stance On RV Parking: One Man's Opinion

Monday, May 01, 2006 03:50 AM

-by Ben Meisner

If you have looked at the Opinion 250 poll being conducted on the matter of RV’s parking on big box lots in the city, you will see that the citizens of this city are definitely not in favor of what City Council was trying to introduce. They are telling the city brass in no uncertain terms that they don’t like the move.

Now I wonder when a few of those same Councilors who like to say they feel they were put there to make decisions, will be so forth coming at the May 8th meeting?

If any one sitting on Council did not get the message the last time the matter came to Council then they do not pay attention to the voting public.

We have yet to see just what kind of fall out the "flip, flop, belly flop, give your dog a bone" decision will have, but any loss of tourists in the city whether they are staying on the Wal Mart lot or not, is simply not good business.

So like the "Hockey Enforcers" the matter will go back to Council where it will be dropped like a hot potato at a Barb-Q and the politicians will be saying, oh well, I really didn’t like the idea in the beginning but I voted for it anyway.

The excuses will leave us breathless.

The real problem however in all this is that those people who now believe PG is a "no stop" zone will pass us by and the publicity we got from this exercise will leave us as scorched as the burns we suffered when Hedy Fry made her comment about burning crosses.

I'm Meisner, and that is one man's opinion.

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Posted on Monday, May 01, 2006 03:50 AM in Views by Ben Meisner

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Comments

Posted by: Palopu on May 1 2006 12:46 PM

Some of these decisions are made without enough thought and consideration for the long term effects. Much like the decision to close the Cameron St. Bridge, even though it was okayed in January, it was closed in September. If the City had made the correct decision to repair the bridge and continue to use it as we have in the past we would now be using the bridge, traffic would be moving along 1st Avenue, and River Road, no congestion or safety issue on 5th and the Bypass and 5th and Carney. The City however because it dances to its own drummer decided that a new bridge was the answer, even though very few if any taxpayers in this City were looking for a new bridge, and certainlty would not have been in favour of it, if they knew that they would be without any bridge at all for 2 1/2 to 3 years.

The Mayor and Council have to take more time and put more effort into getting these things right in the first place rather than shooting from the hip and then having to go back and have a re-do.

It rather interesting that when you come into South Fort George from the West via Queensway you see a sign that says **Welcome to Historic South Fort George**, however you would be hard pressed to find anything in that Village that is Historical. The South Fort School has been torn down. Fanny Kinneys house beside the slough on Queensway has been torn down and replaced with a sign. The Old Hudsons Bay Store at the Park is long gone. The old CN Station on first Avenue tore down. We had to bring in the station from Penny to give the impression that it was part of Prince George History. We cant save King George V School, and one of the last Historical structures of Prince George which is the Cameron St. Bridge (75 Years Old) will be torn down and destroyed, even though we could repair it and make it not only functional but historical. Where is the Heritage Society on this one??

Posted by: swimmer on May 2 2006 1:51 PM

The city should then stand by their laws and forbid camping by the Aquatic Center and fair grounds. I have seen these facilities used numerous times.