In short, we're hypocrites. We want a different kind of city, but won't make the hard choices needed to create one. We want five-star service at two-star rates. And still we complain because the residential snow removal strategy is called "April."
Wasn't I just saying this?
Go to a small urban park in a densely populated European city and notice how many people are there playing chess, watching their kids, kicking a soccer ball around.
When not used for organized sports, our parks are empty, designed to look at, not use.
A great urban environment doesn't need vast expanses of green space. It needs better people-oriented space. But if we're going to keep it the way it is, let's at least pay enough to make it work.
Go ahead, council: raise my taxes. Make my day. Really.
Like, hello Saskatoon!
Every year it’s going to snow. So it’s going to snow in your little cul-de-sacs and every year you won’t be able to get out. And every year the snow plows will only come by after they’ve done the eleventeen million other roads because you wanted to live in the freakin’ new new suburbs.
And therefore we need new bridges to get you to your new new suburb. But the old ones are literally rusting away. So maybe some more money for infrastructure, you think? Yes, you’ll have to raise my taxes, but my golly, I’ll gonna like it. Hell it may cause me to even vote for you.
Like raise my taxes and I’d still vote for you? That is a freakin’ political pickup line! Time to own up to your sadistic political-selves city council and do something we’re all going to enjoy in the end.