Government Projects Are Designed To Line Someone’s Pocket.
Toronto Bureauweeny’s Estimate of a Simple Set of Stairs? $65,000!
So a citizen, with the help of a homeless guy, built the stairs in one afternoon. Now people aren’t falling down the embankment to get to the garden, or whatever it is down those stairs.
Not the finest set of stairs I’ve ever seen. How about we increase the cost tenfold and do it a little better? Maybe a little terraced flagstone upon the landing? That would still be around a $60,000 savings.
The city wants to tear them down… probably out of the shame and embarrassment and the fear that people will catch on to the way governments rob citizen’s of tax money to give to their cronies through bloated “projects.”
I can see all kinds of safety hazards on these stairs as they are used by a citizenry accustomed to being protected by government.
How dare these people take the peoples matters into their own hands. I am shocked and DELIGHTED.
Somebody will of course take a tumble down the stairs, then expect a big payday from the city if they don’t take the stairs down and put up a set designed by the worlds greatest engineers, by the best contractor money can buy who are all bonded.
Better yet, the city can put a stack of waivers right by the steps saying that the use understands the hazards and therefore is climbing or descending the steps at their own risk. Maybe they’ll have to hire a stair guard to warn people no to run on the stairs and to take them one at a time with right hand firmly gripping the right hand rail.
Then of course there will be the handicapped who also will want access to the same areas and demand the city spend $240,000 so they can maneuver around the same embankment.
$ MONEY LAUNDERING $
Problem (better yet, invent or cause a problem)
Give money to your donors to fix the problem
Donor gives nice re-election donation to politician
Stop acting like you don’t understand how this system works
THe entire country seems to have lost its Goddamned mind:
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2017/rcmp-investigating-atv-incident-seeking-public-assistance
It happens at all levels of government, even counties. We had a troublesome intersection that needed a traffic light. But oh no. They spent millions to reconfigure the intersection and seized multiple acres to solve the problem. The elected and appointed are vastly more knowledgeable than us mere citizens.
As if being power-mad money-grubbers wasn’t enough, these filthy bureaucrats are like feral territorial perdators. They have to piss and crap on everything so everything smells like them.
Oops. …predators…
Fang dingers.
Dumbass bureaucrats are everywhere! They have to justify their existence and inflated pay check by creating unnecessary hurdles that require their approval. Egos and wasting other people’s money is their mantra.Damn socialism !
Not wheelchair accessible.
Take Note: Most flights of stairs are not wheelchair accessible.
This guy should send the city a bill for $10,000, a savings of $50,000!
During my tenure in a municipal govt. I managed to piss off a lot of contractors that have been taking my employer to the cleaners. I had a project engineer ask me what my secret was and I told him I’m always the last one to have anything to say then I can become the biggest asshole in the room. Example: The last design/build company that bid a remodel came in low bid at 3.3 million, for a police sub station I called them out and said I could do it for less running the project in house. The Deputy Chief gave me the project and I brought it in an 2.1 Million! I didn’t make a lot of friends at work, but it sure was fun!
I have an engineer friend who says the stringers are too close together, and not enough edge support. From what I can tell from the picture, I think he’s right. I said as much, adding that whatever is wrong wong take 65K to fix. The grumbling continues..”His newels are all wrong and he doesn’t even have any balusters to get wrong (code spacing requirements)”. Grumble Grumble. I think the initiative is commendable.
Those Kind of Jobs , should be reserved for Smaller Companies that only have a few employees. Prices would get back to Reality Fast !
Come on. Half a day of the public walking on that thing would have it falling apart. It shouldn’t cost 65mil, but it needs to be a real staircase and ramp.
$65k is a lot for a set of stairs, but it’s less than your average slip and fall lawsuit.
I built mine out of flagstones cut into the incline, no hand rail. They’ll last forever. I might of paid thirty bux.
Screw the regulations.