Thunder Bay – Oh Yeah? Well Its Even Worse Than You Think …So There!
addendum to previous post The Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce is issuing a challenge to to city hall to get serious about controlling spending. – Tbnewswatch So, City Hall needs to get serious about the high property taxes in this city. Tim Commisso, City Manager, responded with City manager Tim Commisso says the city can […]
Thunder Bay – Ooooooo Service Cuts Oooooo
Finally…someone else has noticed the obvious. The City of Thunder Bay is living way beyond its means. City Hall is a bad financial manager. Really bad. Surprise! You can bet that City Admin will deny everything of course and spit out lots of stats countering the Lakehead University professors’ document titled AN ANALYSIS AND FORECAST OF […]
Thunder Bay – Tearing You A New Manhole
You can see just how closely our Engineering Department monitors contractor operations. Seems that this whole manhole bruhaha caught our highly paid City engineers by surprise. They actually had to drive out to the manholes in question and LOOK at them. And then DRIVE over them. Poor, poor engineers. No representative from the Engineering Department […]
Thunder Bay – Ruttan Street ..Turd Polishing?
I think that our Engineering Department plans on paving over top of this. The contractor milled off about 50 mm or two inches of the old asphalt. That left a pretty beat up and severely crack riddled surface. I will have to keep an eye on this project. All those cracks will eventually reflect through […]
Thunder Bay – City Admin is Simply Too Lazy
We were in Kitchener in front of their city hall and they put out moveable tables and chairs and food trucks and live music, so we basically stole their idea,” Siciliano said. Stealing ideas is exactly what consultants do. They then put those stolen ideas in a nicely formatted report and present it to […]
Thunder Bay – More On Van Horne
An update to the previous Van Horne Street post and its revisit post. Then there is the retaining wall. It has several cracks already as well as a misaligned form. Then there is the asphalt work. Not overly impressive. Most of the sidewalk was not replaced. The acceptability level of sidewalk condition is extremely […]
Thunder Bay – Algoma Sidewalk
Looks like a section of sidewalk is getting replaced. Hurrah! you might say. But…and there always seems to be a but, this sidewalk is on Algoma Street. This sidewalk that is now going to cost the taxpayers money to remove and replace is on the part of Algoma Street that was reconstructed in 2011. The […]
Thunder Bay – County Park Splash Pad
Could be open soon? Crews began work this week? Will continue until job is complete? Its been a learning experience? Learning experience? There are other splash pads in the city. Finished. Working. Complete. Done. What is there to learn? We have already done it! “With only two weeks left in the summer I have my […]
Thunder Bay – Lower Bay Street Active Transportation Corridor
The Bay Street Active Transportation Corridor between Secord Street and Banning Street. Road was reconstructed in 2010. This sidewalk was deemed to be in satisfactory condition and so, it was not replaced. There was no more money for lower Bay Street. But upper Bay Street….seems to be lots of money available for upper Bay Street. […]
Thunder Bay – Small Business
In the end, its small business that provides most of the jobs. In Thunder Bay, small business seems to be holding its own in spite of City Hall.