NIGHTMAYOR: Sutcliffe Is Upset, We Are Too

Mayor Mark Sutcliffe is disappointed that the media is calling his new nightlife commissioner the “nightmayor”.

Well you know, Your Worship, we’re a bit disappointed, too.

• We’re disappointed that the $6.4 billion light-rail system is so unreliable that people are voting with their feet;
• We’re disappointed that two years into your mandate, we don’t see a plan to fix LRT;
• We’re disappointed the bus and train system has been decimated;
• We’re disappointed that our wasted $6.4 billion is being used on a system that is horribly late;
• We’re disappointed that the city is awash in construction, its dirt and constant detours because the line is late;
• We’re disappointed you went ahead with a plan to fix light rail without knowing the cause of the problem;
• We’re disappointed we’re waiting three years to find the root cause or causes of the train derailments and the fix resulting from them;
• We’re disappointed that Lansdowne 2.0 doesn’t address the problems of Lansdowne 1.0 which, among other things, is the wrong product, at the wrong time, in the wrong location and it has lousy access to all forms of transportation;
• We’re disappointed that at the end of Lansdowne 2.0, it probably won’t address the problems of Lansdowne 1.0 (see above) and we’ll need Lansdowne 3.0 that will have the same ‘success’ as 1.0 and 2.0. How do we know this? Because every big project the city undertakes turns to garbage … even garbage service (that said, rat service appears to be alive and well);
• We’re disappointed about pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Lansdowne but getting next to zippo back. That’s the extent of the Lansdowne partnership (partnership?) And the city entered into the “partnership” knowingly and with its eyes wide open;
• We’re disappointed about the hideous budget overruns of the new and unnecessary central library such that the overruns are misreported or not reported at all;
• We’re disappointed that (sorry, Mark Twain) you can’t throw a brick at Ottawa City Hall without hitting someone with interim in their job title:
• We’re disappointed that the mayor flies to London on the tab of a lobby group;
• We’re disappointed that the pols at city hall try to distract the media in the public with petty little fluff deflections as the nightmayor (oops, said it again) and Shawarma Town.
• We’re disappointed that a Bulldog Report Card showed 29 categories of city hall endeavor and only four passed;
• We’re disappointed that there is so much failure at city hall that your fingers get tired typing to list it all;
• We’re disappointed that because of that fatigue, we can’t continue to list all the things that are wrong at city hall and environs;
• We’re disappointed that Mayor Mark Sutcliffe and his incompetent city council and woeful city staff (interim and non-interim) can’t figure out what oversight is and if they did, they wouldn’t know what to do with it;
• We’re disappointed that we could go on forever with this list but we’re trying to save the endangered pixel and make The Bulldog and its pixels environmentally sustainable. Save the pixel;
• And we’re disappointed with the mayor concerning being disappointed with the term “nightmayor” because he and the rest of city hall are in no position to criticize anyone. Clean up your own appalling nightmare.

So here’s the deal, Your Worship. We’ll stop calling the nightmayor the “nightmayor” when city hall starts doing a good job. Now this could be an impingement on our freedom of speech but we’re confident that this depressing show on Laurier Avenue will never get it right.

But if you do, we’ll celebrate it on Ottawa Shawarma Day.

Happy Shawarma Day, Your Worship.

Ken Gray

Not the interim Editor of The Bulldog

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