Call A Special Meeting Of Council On LRT
“Sometimes we have a full sign out at 7:30 a.m., and we open at 6:30. So you can imagine how many people are taking their own vehicles to work instead of public transportation.”
Ramesh Abrol, parking lot owner on how the LRT closure is driving people to their cars
Way-da-go, green warriors.
Your agent was one of the biggest supporters of light rail in this city before the final decision was made to go with it. You’d never know it today but it’s true. Still support it. Just not the one we got.
“We do hear a lot, ‘I wish I could take a bus, I wish I could take a train.’ But they can’t, they can’t rely on it. It’s a big issue,” our parking lot owner above says.
This is not what Ottawans wanted our municipal government to accomplish. City council, it’s fine to approve expensive, big projects if they serve the public good.
But the job doesn’t end with your vote. Council needs to be diligent in its oversight. Or you get the current, incredible mess on LRT.
And then with the fiasco of LRT facing them, they frog-march a billion dollars of e-buses through the legislative apparatus without proper testing, other cities hesitant to buy them and other cities saying they don’t work well in a very cold climate.
A billion dollars isn’t virtue signalling. It’s real money that people need. And it goes to municipal waste.
Ottawa City Hall is often so incompetent that it could turn a socialist into a Trump supporter. It has ruined your agent’s faith in government and I watch it everyday.
Let’s Be Honest About Light Rail: THE VOTER
The previous administration on Laurier Avenue would hold a special meeting of council to deal with the threat to squirrels from moving traffic. Where’s the special meeting for light rail? Council has a crisis in transportation in this city but it hasn’t lifted a finger.
Oversight, oversight, oversight. There’s a very good chance this 18-month axle redesign won’t work.
Let’s get the people in charge of this mess in front of council and grill them on the efficacy of the remedial measures they’re taking. Get in front of this issue. This council doesn’t even lead from behind.
So congratulations, councillors. In an effort to be green, you’ve forced people to take their cars. Not good.
City council has made the greatest contribution to greenhouse gases in this city of any local entity. It’s called traffic jams and uptake on cars.
Can’t our mayor and city council practise some real oversite rather than noversite?
Start being pro-active. Ask tough questions. Hold a special session of city council. Do something. Anything.
Being collegial (a favourite term of iron-fisted Jim Watson) has nothing to do with doing nothing. We pay the mayor and council to practise oversite. Start doing it.
You’ve got a crisis. Deal with it in a public way. Let’s get some scrutiny on this vital issue.
Ottawans can’t afford another city council screw up. Start living up to the misplaced faith voters gave you.
Ken Gray
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The parking lots are full, I was told everyone was working from home!
Anderson:
This is how the city is dealing with the climate crisis.
The biggest green measure in municipal Ottawa’s history is causing greenhouse gases to multiply.
There are honest mistakes and then there is sheer, unadulterated incompetence.
And what is council doing. Piecing together 10-foot poles to get nowhere near bad news. That’s the culture Watson left.
Good leaders lead. On D-Day these people would hide in the landing craft.
cheers
kgray
Thanks for showing some emotional outrage, Ken. Sadly at the next municipal election, Ottawans will vote to replace this bunch of councillors with the same ones . . . again.