Our city council spent $500,000 on an LRT study to satisfy its “vision.” I would encourage the transportation department to first solve the traffic flow problems on St. Albert Trail before 2035, the projected year for LRT coming to St. Albert. Can you visualize a LRT train whizzing down the trail along side the traffic as it is now? My vision of this is chaos!
I live on a bus route and have never seen a bus full of riders in 20 years – the bus is usually empty! As a matter of fact, the bus sometimes sits at a stop to use up time to stay on schedule for the next stop. It makes me wonder how many people from St. Albert would actually take a bus or drive to the park and ride lot to take the LRT. We are a city of a population of fewer than 64,000 not 640,000, with a substantial number of seniors and children younger than 16.
Another expenditure is $1.16 million to hire 28 extra personnel in 2015 – to do what again? Could someone on Council tell us taxpayers?
Spending $500,000 on 75 directional signs, averaging $6,666 per sign. Can taxpayers assume that these signs were designed and constructed by City of St. Albert employees? If not, some company got a nice monetary assignment. So the next time you pass one of these signs, think about the cost of it.
Servus Place finally makes a profit! Great, maybe next year $187.00 will not be added to my property tax bill. I’m still waiting for Starbucks to make a $90,000 profit as was forecasted.
City of St. Albert boasting about $83 million in the bank. Great! How about giving the current taxpayers some relief from the 10-year Utility Capital Plan?
When is City Council going to realize that a lot of us taxpayers do not have pockets full of money to continually pay rising costs and taxes?
Sylvia Bilsky, St. Albert
