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Originally Posted by Colin May
Land use has nothing to do with housing low income people and people with drug and mental health problems. The major problem is governments that continually pander to white,middle class people who are dependent on public sector employment. Governments who think the poor and ill will just fade away. My street is about to see Ocean Contractors install a bikeway. The contract was let on August 18 after the HRM council met - the contract was not on the August 17 agenda and nobody wants to talk about who authorised the expenditure. Because it is a Fed/Province/HRM deal the local MP is usually the one who makes the announcement. Somehow I doubt the Liberal MP for Dartmouth is going to hold a press conference to announce the spending of $2.3 million a few days after people were demonstrating for public funding for low income housing.
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That is something your local Council member promoted and cooked up for the neighborhood in which he resides because he is a bike lane fanatic. I was just thinking of this tonight after he posted - 2 days after signing off social media for 2 weeks of vacation, conveniently, the morning of the police action at the old library site - a similar dissembling account to that of his buddy Waye Mason's that appeared on Twitter earlier today. Mason got blasted out of the water, while Austin got similar but less intense negative responses to his tome.
It all made me think of where his priorities are. The bike lanes in his own neighborhood, the narrowing of Wyse Rd., the narrowing of Prince Albert Rd, the useless curb bump-outs everywhere, and of course the upcoming boondoggle of the bridge flyover ramp. It is 10s of millions of dollars that HRM (mostly) is pissing away on these mostly useless things. Meanwhile they throw up their hands when it comes to the real life-and-death problems of people. Shameful.
Someone posted on another site that citizens need to ensure that no incumbents get re-elected next time. I have been saying that for 2 terms now, and it is nice that it is finally becoming apparent more generally that this entire bunch needs to go for reasons of misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, and ignoring their fiduciary duty to the citizens of HRM.
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