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Originally Posted by jing
I'm in the hood too and have complained to the City about people ripping it up/down Patterson (80km+) with no recourse while kids are running around the street. Speed bumps are a no go due to it being a transit route and additional street lighting has to be essentially crowdfunded amongst community members. Meanwhile Burnaby still has a $1B+ surplus  |
That surplus drives me crazy - the city spends only about 80% of the revenue they bring in and now have one of the largest surpluses (top 5) of any Canadian city. They have enough of a rainy day fund to cover 2 years of spending now and have no plans on how that fund should be used when there's some obvious things that could done with it (safer streets, more accessibility, bike paths). The city's philosophy on crosswalks is to only build them after someone dies cause it's cheaper to do it that way (this is only a slight exaggeration).
This photo is before Burnaby swapped to LED streetlights but it illustrates how big the difference is in lighting between Vancouver and Burnaby:
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