Comment 88559

By -Hammer- (registered) | Posted May 09, 2013 at 18:06:39 in reply to Comment 88557

Digging up a sidewalk to expand a park would be beneficial for the area, or add lawnspace to a normally unused sidewalk that has fallen into disrepair and boasts offensive graffiti.

Blacking out a bikelane could result in uncongesting a street serves to lower idling/environmental smog and allow for parking that would be an economic boon for local shops/residents.

Installing an 80kph sign would certainly benefit someone fighting a speeding ticket on that street and potentially speed up people's access to work, cutting down commuting time.

Sure some of these arguements are assisnine, but the point is, it doesn't matter. Mischief isn't defined by make deterimental interuptions, it's defined by making ANY interuptions that inteference with it's use.

The section of road, drivers now can't use, which normally they are lawfully and legally entitled to use. That's an interference of it's normal lawful use. If you paint a line on the road or any peice of public property without authorization, it's graffiti and ergo, you have damaged that property. You don't own the street, the city collectively owns the street. It can be argued (albiet poorly IMO) as a visual distraction for drivers and a misrepresentation of a crossing for pedestrians.

I'm not saying it's right. I'm not saying the improvements don't make sense because they do. I'm saying it's technically against the law.

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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