City council's May 28, 2012 discussion about Prince George roads produced no hint of
a solution.
Instead, councilors lamented their failure to increase road rehabilitation funding, while asking desperate questions about ad hoc borrowing from reserve funds to patch a few more potholes.
Council discussed an arbitrary one million dollars for emergency road repairs. Will a
million dollars help? A million dollars is like spitting into the face of a hurricane.
Councilors now pin all their hopes on radically restructuring revenue sharing in Canada.
One councilor railed against senior governments for failing to rescue the city from a
legacy of bad spending decisions. Councilors waiting for pennies from heaven are
dreaming. Senior governments have made their own spending mistakes, and are trying
to save their own fiscal houses.
It's time for this city to stop dreaming, wake up, and start cleaning up our own mess.
Glen Nicholson
Prince George
