Infrastructure

Residents have repeatedly spoke to me about the need to do infrastructure repairs in a timely manner. Many others have said that they have never seen their streets repaired. There are many factors to infrastructure that need to be looked at in a realistic way.

This means:

• Making sure residents are informed well in advance of when projects are going to take place and have some input on it.

• Ensuring that once a project is started it is completed in a timely manner, so that traffic and local residents are not affected for extended periods of time.

• That projects should not be left unfinished for long periods of time, as this affects the lives of the residents living around it.

• Resources should be shifted to roads that need critical repairs.

• Hiring city workers and in-province contractors instead of outsourcing for our building projects.

• Revitalizing our city through infilling projects and attracting investment.

• Creating accessible sidewalks during winter.

Overall, a realistic and common sense approach needs to happen for infrastructure. It will take the combined efforts of many city councillors to see this change.

Reid will advocate for existing infrastructure to be repaired before any new developments.