Downtown Parking

Recently I had reason to venture downtown. I had several places that I wanted to go to. It took longer than anticipated at the first place and when I came out I noticed the parking enforcement officer noting license plates including mine. That meant that I could not drive to the other place and park at it as you are not allowed to park in two separate locations in the downtown within , I think, two hours. I was faced with either walking to the second place or not going there at all. Because I would have probably exceeded the allotted parking time if I left my car where it was and it was cold and windy and pouring rain and it was about a three block walk some of it over those ridiculous brick sidewalks that are treacherous at the best of times, I chose to go to a shop in one of the malls instead. Thus for all of the Council's desire to lure business downtown they actually succeeded in driving some away.

But then it seems that the Council can't decide if they want a vibrant downtown or want it to be one large campus.

Pigs

Do you suppose if the City was to place a trash can on every corner that people might use them instead of discarding their trash along the streets? They would have to have catch buckets on the sides, like some toll booths do so, that those in passing cars could toss their trash in without stopping. But most would likely miss anyway and Brantford streets would still be covered in litter.

Colborne St. Waste

How much of the 41 buildings on the south side of Colborne St. that the City of Brantford wants to expropriate and tear down will be recycled and how much of the concrete, bricks, plaster, mortar, and wood, and other stuff will go to filling up the city dump? My guess is that very little will be recycled and that tons and tons and tons of those buildings will end up as landfill.

Renovating and preserving these buildings would do a lot to follow the "green" mantra of reduce, reuse, and recycle. But that doesn't fit in with the council's grand scheme of things (which might be shared with us eventually). Ah, but the councilors are going to stop using plastic water bottle as their contribution to reducing global warming. I'm sure in their minds that one will offset the other.

Actions always speak much louder than lip service.