I would like to have a cup of coffee with you in real life and talk some of these issues over. I actually share your frustration on a few of these points. Some don’t really merit a response. Others are debatable, but not in the comments section of this particular post.

I’m sure you know how to get in touch.

#1: 23rd Ave interchange costs ballooning by 400%

#2: Consulting costs escalating exponentially

#3: Public transit reduced to a tool for developers

#4: Unable to attract a developer for The Quarters

#5: Blatant efforts by the mayor to involve taxpayer money for a billionaire’s arena

#6: Greisbach 1/8th developed, 10 years after it began

#7: Utter lack of development at or near Canada Packer’s lands (It’s near LRT, how can it be?)

#8: Threat to ban plastic bags

#9: Closing Canada’s oldest aerodrome and displacing 1000 jobs for a promise of nothing

#10: The still empty 7 acres at Century Park

#11: The continued deterioration of once thriving neighbourhoods because council’s zoning allows for multiple porn shops, pawn shops, cash stores, liquor stores and swingers bars so close together

#12: Edmonton city council’s increasing hostility to the free market and entrepreneurship

#13: The $2000 council saved by replacing the valley zoo train with a golf cart

#14: Snow plows not on retainer, then on retainer, then not on retainer

#15: Successive and significant tax increases with negligible increases in services.

#16: Overcrowded, unreliable buses and LRT

#17: An Expo bid that many Edmontonians feel is being forced down their throats.

#18: A council that lost touch with the democratic process.

#19: A nanny state where Edmontonians will be told How To Move, How To Grow, How To Live

#20: Multiple choice: Where would you find a burned-out, derelict 700,000 Sq.ft hospital sitting on 5 square city blocks, 8 years running? a) Kosovo, b) Edmonton, c) Chernobyl, d) Baghdad?

You and your colleagues would dare shut down an airport and put 600 acres of land on the market while this blight has been in Inglewood all these years? Do you really think anyone is buying your line?

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