yukoner88
Registered User
Yep. The same city, and even same city council will spend hours, weeks, days discussing whether Gateway looks inviting enough. What impression people will get driving into the city. The same City has art installations (expensive) to beautify freeways and roads. The same city plants ample flower beds and tree beds and then watches them die and dry. Same City approves taxpayer money be spend on one of the highest priced arenas in the world. Same city spends amply beautifying some segments of LRT and expanding LRT. The same city has spent the last 2 decades building extremely expensive Rec Centers across the city, An extremely expensive new Police headquarters, extremely expensive "world class" new bridge. New downtown library that is an eyesore. Once more also extensively retrofitting City Hall frontage. All supposedly in the name of prettying up the pig.
Like it or not people, humans, to some extent judge books by cover and really the first thing somebody would notice in front of a newly occupied mansion or swanky new house is that the weeds and grass are over one foot high. The incongruence being spending on copiously expensive artifice and then not even being able to afford a lawnmower to cut the grass. If you don't comprehend this you aren't a homeowner in a neighborhood. The first thing neighbors will suss out of a new resident is do you have enough decency to cut your grass and weeds. Its considered to be the base aspect of neighborhood cooperation, its the first thing people will notice. In the winter its whether you bother to shovel your sidewalk and the front sidewalk. These are two primary things that influence what neighbors surmise about you in suburbia. Trite, specious, whatever, these perceptions are real and commonplace.
In anycase what people are complaining about is the inanity of City spending and priority. The same City still has its hand out all the time saying its not getting enough coin. Whenever it gets it it throws the money away on one *signature* vanity project after another. To the extent that it has no funds to fix potholes or cut grass or water vanity boulevards of city planted trees and plants and borders that are dying all over the city.
Even at Muttart Conservatory right now (closed for extensive renovations, its what is done in this city) flower beds in back of the place are all dying and haven't been watered, treated. Theres extensive perennial beds there, ironically next to the cities plant conservatory, that are dying from uncare. But its OK I guess. The City will rip out all those dead perennials that just need a modicum of care and that have existed for decades and just replace them with something more exotic, more expensive, that the city won't look after..
The city is being that bad neighbor right now.
Hey atleast the "art" on the whitemud has balls and not a big blue, gaping glory hole like another city we know
