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When will the madness of City Hall come to an end?
Dear Editor,
The deception of City Hall is appalling! On the one hand through the recent announcement of their estimates of revenue and expenditure for 2017, they projected a measly sum of just over two hundred million dollars per year from the 20% cut to which they are entitled from the fated parking meter initiative if it were to thrive and be utilized fully on a daily basis by residents and shoppers in Georgetown.
This cannot even fund two months of the Municipality’s payroll. In other words the citizens should not look forward to too many benefits even if the parking initiative is a smashing success.
On the other hand however, the Town Clerk is raising the hopes of everyone for significant benefits from these paltry proceeds such as installing a modern city transportation system for the young and elderly, for the construction of new sidewalks, green spaces, and cycling lanes in keeping with the international concept of a smarter city.
Now the youngest child knows that the above listed projects would take billions of dollars, so then how many decades would it take at 240 million a year (that is if everybody uses the spaces from 7 to 7 each day to complete these pipe dreams. To make the situation even more laughable they are even promising municipal workers a hefty raise of pay from the same proceeds of this parking meter project.
When will the madness at City Hall end? Now they have just capriciously exempted the area contiguous to the Bank of Guyana, so what about the other banks? Will they be exempted too? Do they have a municipal court to deal with persons who have been dilatory in their parking or will Smart City Solutions and City Council be the judge, jury and executioner?
Modi Sankar
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