Winter Walking and Cycling

[danbrotherston]

I very strongly agree that cruelty is unnecessary. You have chosen to keep people trapped in their homes for months at a time. Tell me more about cruelty, please.

Sure... I'll even give you a couple of examples.

1.  Spending every disposable cent for the foreseeable future on snow clearing knowing full well it means we won't be able to fund ambitious affordable housing plans and reducing homelessness.  (i.e. people that don't even have a home to be trapped in.)

2.  Raising taxes to a degree that we will likely force more people into homelessness.  $89 a year (on top of our inflationary increases, plus Regional increases) may not affect you or me much, but it's quite significant to a lot of people.

Here's a source:

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canadian...s-finances

@robdrimmie makes a good point here, you are playing at a false dichotomy...your transportation staff do this as well "you can have either sidewalks or bike lanes, not both"...how about questioning road spend, why are you so willing to spend on roads (I guarantee you we spend more than 10 million plowing roads), but so unwilling to spend on others?

But that's not what I would like you to answer....because I'm over it, I don't care that the sidewalks won't be plowed, I've already accepted that I won't be able to live car free in this city. I have only one question for you right now.

Do you care at all, that I, as a taxpaying resident of the city, object to you wasting my tax dollars on pro-active enforcement.

It did not work, the report said that explicitly. It said very clearly, it did not result in an improvement in the sidewalk. But staff had to make some recomendation. So why are you wasting my money on this bullshit? That is my only question. I would have prefered you and the rest of council do nothing...wasting money pretending benefits nobody and costs us all.