Tobi Nussbaum, Do Your NCC Job Right

“We are letting 1,000 flowers bloom and creating a culture that is ultimately creating more interesting and more dynamic public spaces in the capital.”

Tobi Nussbaum, CEO of the National Capital Commission

Nussbaum and his minions at the NCC planted a flower on the Kichi Zibi Parkway and guess what grew there. A weed.

The NCC has closed the parkway for this and next weekend so that light-rail construction can continue unabated (or at least what accounts for unabated at the prolonged clown show of light rail).

And this weekend, the province is closing lanes on Highway 417 downtown and in the west end for construction.

Thus Nussbaum’s weed is likely to produce traffic chaos as the two major east-west highways in the north-end of the city are either closed or are paralyzed by lane and ramp closings. Doesn’t anybody talk to anybody at the NCC?

So there you have it. Just less than two weeks after Nussbaum’s flower-planting pronouncement, he serves up a field of weeds.

This great flower-planting of which Nussbaum speaks is one crazy garden.

That’s not all. Nussbaum decided it was time to rebuild Westboro Beach at the same moment the parkway was being moved and the LRT was being constructed. Three huge projects all in one place at one time. What could go wrong? The traffic mess was unbelievable.

But it got worse. When the Champlain Bridge was being rebuilt, traffic was cut to one lane with cars from north and south trying to get through one lane while being directed by a besieged labourer with a flag. Traffic backed up all the way to Woodroffe from the bridge on the parkway … certainly a modern record that stands to this day.

That’s not all. The NCC construction of the Champlain Bridge was running horribly late which was noticed by this esteemed publication. So what did the NCC do? Its PR people tried to change the finishing date of the bridge to say it was being completed on time. Every project can be finished on time if you have a flexible finishing date.

And we await the Nussbaum floating sauna in response to the overwhelming public outcry from the lack of a floating sauna in the national capital. What’s next? A UFO landing pad?

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If all this is not enough, we have one word for you. LeBreton.

So perhaps CEO Nussbaum could spend a little less time with horticulture and do his job right for a change.

But then maybe Nussbaum is a idea man rather than someone with a real job. Don’t forget what happens to the idea man when corporate headquarters is looking for people to lay off. Out goes the idea man.

And wait a second. Isn’t the government corporate chief Mark Carney looking for public service cuts in the near future.

Better get that traffic moving Mr. NCC chief.

Ken Gray

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