Couldn't Have Said It Better

Okay, I lied again.

When I said I was a one-trick-pony. Constantly complaining about old buildings being torn down for condos.

Well, I'm actually a two-trick-pony - also complaining incessantly about how incompetent governments are.

Click "Hole E Moley" for a recent example. This barricaded "hole" is still here, over two weeks later.

Well, looks like I am not the only one who thinks governments are all a bunch of boobs.

This article deals with a water main replacement project on Avenue Rd - a very busy commuter road to downtown. It caused massive traffic backups over the 15 months of the project.

So just when commuters thought life was getting back to normal - out come the orange traffic cones.

Recent pic, just to confirm.

So why did the cones come out?

They didn't install the pipe correctly and it has to be torn up.

As the author relates "Toronto Water general manager Lou Di Gironimo told me...'The problem was that the pipe was already in the ground'."

She continues, "I’m not an engineer, but surely it makes more sense to inspect this kind of work BEFORE the roads are closed up. (Common sense at City Hall? Nah.) Delayed deadlines and project issues — it’s still a recurring theme at City Hall.

Can we say Dundas St. West? Can we say Pottery Road? Repeat after me: The Bloor St. Endless Transformation Project."

Click "Call Before You Dig" for my own take on this disaster.

And she wraps up with; "If these kinds of major issues occurred in the private sector, heads would roll.

But this is City Hall, after all, where money is spent like water and no one is accountable.

Why should the Avenue Rd. Watermain project be any different?"

You go, girl!