Comment 88550

By -Hammer- (registered) | Posted May 09, 2013 at 16:15:15 in reply to Comment 88548

  1. I would assume petitioning your local councillor, preferably via petitions, or in forms of legal protest to raise awareness to press for said changes. I guess you could petition public works directly, but I don't think they would be to condusive to such efforts. Of course raising electoral awareness helps. I have no doubt it's not easy, but nothing worthwhile is. However we do have a perfectly good website to organize such efforts.

  2. Oh, there is no question about that. The public works dept. of the city is a consistent disappointment, hence my earlier comments ripping into them for both their ego and ineptitude. However I think you would be hard pressed to have the cops and courts go after the city for reckless endangerment based on street design. Not to say it's not possible, it's just...well much harder and certainly takes a swath of legal and monetary resources.

As a side note, what should be done is the city corp (IE Council) should be aggressively cleaning out and pursuing these parts of the city bureaucracy, which sadly is VERY hard to do given the strength of the public sector union. Not being anti-union, I'm in one myself, but there is no question city staff has/continues to get away with a lot. Also next election, politely convincing people beyond to choir through awareness to vote for urban voices in couldn't hurt either.

Still waiting for the Randle Reef mess to get cleaned up, but hopefully not much longer!

http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2012/12/18/hamilton-randle-reef-announcement.html

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