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Originally Posted by Curmudgeon
Problems are:
1. With increases in utility and other costs and no appreciable upwards movement in wages, people are cash-strapped and can ill afford increased property taxes;
2. People no longer trust the city (or governments in general for that matter, read police HQ) to spend money wisely and get good value for it. For example, the total cost of the SWBRT is astronomical for what it is, and compared with superior projects in other cities.
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How much more would it have cost to have built the police HQ properly from the ground up? Or a LRT system from day one? Winnipeggers tend to prefer the cheaper option no matter what kind of compromises it involves, so we end up with these cockamamie sitcom-like schemes to save a few bucks. But inevitably we end up paying 90% of the cost of the preferred option while getting at most 50% of the functionality.
It's a very penny wise, pound foolish mentality, but politicians aren't interested in challenging it.