Comment 37478

By Myrcurial (registered) - website | Posted January 27, 2010 at 10:23:50

Feeding trolls is bad, but Mr. Fancy Pants up there is one of the two major subsets of Hamiltonians that makes me want to scream.

The Self-Important-Suburbanite.

It would be nice if we could set up some sort of system of consequences -- every time one of the suburban councillors votes against something that those of us who live in the lower city want, we get to vote them something they don't want. I think that since they like to zoom through the lower city at 70km/h on their one-lane-save-me-from-downtown-highways, we should get to convert their major thoroughfares to one way as well - Upper James goes Northbound, Upper Wentworth Southbound. Oh - and those inner accesses are expensive to upkeep, they can have the two highway accesses and we can dedicate the inner accesses to public transit only (with ram bollards to keep the riff raff out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCSsope5v... )

I often wonder about the absolute intensity of damage that The Self-Important-Suburbanite and his near cousin The Pre-Defeated-Due-To-Being-Hamiltonian do to the efforts of The Intentional-Hamiltonian and The Urbane-Renewalist.

There should be some sort of comeuppance. But I don't see when it is going to happen -- maybe if we all work to elect councillors who are prepared to act like adults in meetings and who are willing to challenge the forces that work to put our city down.

Sigh.

I think I'll always be tilting at windmills - because it's the only way to know that I've tried.

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