shockedcanadian
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 12:01 pm
I understand the need for safety and specifications, but $150,000 to build eight steps!!?? No wonder Canada doesnt win anymore. Have to love the Councillors response, he's right too:
Matthew Cutler, spokesman for Parks and Rec, said their staff feel the current staircase is unsafe and cannot be easily fixed but they have reached out to a city engineer to see if work could be done on it to make it more usable - before they take any action to remove it.
Cutler said the quotes relate to the kind of infrastructure required for a public space project that would last 20 years. The range in quotes depend on whether the staircase is made of stone or a fully engineered heavy duty steel staircase, he says.
They were definitely designed to be more durable than what the community member installed, he said.
Asked why Astls wood staircase is considered unsafe as opposed to the yellow rope and no staircase at all, he said people climbing up and down a hill on their own is a much different situation than a staircase that invites people to climb it.
The expectation of safety is different between a hill and a staircase, he said.
Shhh. Lets not tell him theyre both in a city park.
Anne Hodgson, who uses the park regularly, said the stairs seem perfectly safe to her.
Her 11-year-old son, Sam, said it will cost money to take the stairs out and Astl's hard work would have been for nothing.
Di Ciano said it's gross that city officials would consider spending so much money for a simple project.
Instead of just building a simple staircase so the vast majority of people can use it, they want to build the Taj Mahal, he said. It boggles my mind ... if it's going to cost $150,000 to build a simple eight-riser staircase, what does it take to build heavy duty infrastructure projects in the city?
