The Brantford Bus Terminal

The Brantford City Council now wants to build a new bus terminal downtown at a cost of over four million dollars even though the current bus terminal is less than ten years old. Councilor Littell has even gone as far as labeling this building old. Maybe to a six year old but certainly not when compared to most other buildings in this city. I don't know where Mr. Littell lives but maybe he moves constantly so that he is always able to live in a new house. How many people could afford to rip down their residence and replace it every ten years? And it shouldn't be necessary.

It also has been suggested that this building was poorly constructed and is now in poor shape. Well if this is true, can we not go after the contractor for doing such a shoddy job? And where were the city building inspectors? Shouldn't they be even more vigilant when taxpayers money is involved? If they do this poor of an inspection job on a public building imaging what it's like for private construction projects. I hope that they all have been or are soon to be fired. Obviously they must be incompetent if they allowed such poor workmanship to be approved. And what about the Councilors themselves? They are the ones who approved the design and selected the winning bid. Did none of them ever go to check on this building during construction? And many of these same people are still on Council and expect us to trust them on the rebuilding of the south side of Colborne St. Really? Unbelievable how this Council can come up with ways to squander taxpayers money especially when it involves the downtown.