Gee, here we go again. Maybe if we weren't paying to build the escape route into the hood we would be able to fix our streets. Priorities??

Let me see, it was just a couple of months ago that the city approved a new budget for paving, based on an amount to be paved which would presumably allow a catch up. A budget figure was established upon which a tax increase was based. The budget was approved, the tax was increased, and here we are a short while later and the project has to be cut back a significant amount so that the budget is not exceeded.

The question I have is what went wrong? The increases in petroleum based products, whether for transportation, energy, or construction materials, were all known, albeit not the exact amount. Labour was becoming scarcer and thus likely more expensive. Given that “boom” atmosphere, the contractors who were bidding on fixed price tender documents, had to include a hefty contingencies for the risk they were undertaking and removing form the City. On top of that, they had not been doing too well for a few years, I would think, so were looking for an opportunity to catch up, since everyone else was doing that. Finally, standards were becoming more restrictive, which is typically more costly.

So, given that scenario, I would think that city engineering and purchasing would have called a few paving contractors to check what the climate was going to be like. That is what any good quantity surveyor does.

So, if all that was done, I wonder what the increase was projected to be over recent years before they went to tender and how that relates to the actual increase after the tenders were opened.

So, where will that leave the Cameron Street Bridge Project? The Police station? Are projects such as the Brick hitting the same situation? They have a large parking lot and access roads to pave.

Let's just ban paving so that the Clean Air Committee across the river from the plant don't have to smell the asphalt plant this summer. Maybe after a year of no paving around town the companies will just leave town and everyone will be happy!

Ah yes, a million bucks for the tunnel which may prove to be more dangerous than crossing the street. I wonder how much that will end up costing.

Let's just not pave and everyone in town can share the dust. We can get rocks to hit our windshields and put chips into our cars year round instead of just during he winter months. I like it....

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I wonder if the folks from City Hall actually drive our roads each day, or do the y fly or teleport themselves to work. Not one major street in this town couldnt use some repair work. Especially out in the BCR Yards, I know heavy truck traffic wrecks roads, but if you drive along Pacific Street between Lomak and The 4 way stop at Rustad's you will no doubtbly see an array opf vehicles look like they are being driven by drunk drivers, but infact they are just swerving the holes some of which are big enough to swallow tires. The fillin the holes with hot asphalt is like using a watering can on a forest fire, it does nothing really!

FUNNY THAT ......TUNNEL WASTE OF MONEY HOW MANY LADIES ARE GOING TO BE RAPED THERE MMMMMMMMMM. CITY GOING DOWN IN FLAMES .... LETS BUILD MORE TUNNELS AND FORGET, ARE POT HOLES AND THE CRACK HOUSES ... MAYOR BETTER GET OFF HIS BIG ASS AND FIRE SOME PEOPLE... I FORGOT HE ONE BIG DRUNK TOO THAT IS WAY BUILD A PUB CLOSE TO HIS HOUSE JUST UP THE HILL FROM HIM ........ BEEN HERE FOR 30 YRS TIME WE UP GRADE BIG TIME .... MAYBE LETS CLOSE DOWN MORE SCHOOLS TOO . I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR YOU GLEN SCOOT AGAIN ... WHAT A WASTE PAPER TO VOTE FOR YOU ... BIG VOICE TO HEAR BULL MORE LIKE A BIG WASTE OF MONEY ON YOU .



AMEN I SEE DEADPEOPLE ..... LMAO

funny thing is that these so called politicians are too scared to come to meisners website and read any of these opinions!