Letter: City should be watching the workers

SooToday received the following letter from reader T. Findlay in response to a story quoting Boston Pizza owner Mike Lesage about his concern that construction on Great Northern Road is affecting area businesses:

These businesses depend upon customers that can actually get to their front doors.

I know first handed the amounts paid out that are associated with the taxes for these businesses, and they are extremely high.

So if any business owner feels the need to express his or her opinions they should be able to, without being chastised for doing so.

I have also witnessed similar jobs such as these in different cities, and if it is a busy thoroughfare, lighting is used and the work is done in the hrs with the least amount of interference from area traffic, yes throughout the night if need be.

This is not only safer, it is also allows for better quality work to be done and faster as well.

I place blame solely on the city people, even though it is a company from out of town, our city people should be overseeing it everyday and watching for any issues and basically watching how our money as tax payers is being spent.

It should be a concern of all tax payers not just the people in the area being affected.

Our city engineering departments personnel’s presence would help to keep this project on target and is completed as expeditiously as possible.

Take the Queen Street project which has had way too many ongoing costly delays, and our city staff should learn from not being on top of things and that the money being paid out via the tax payers is a justified and a accountable expense.

A concerned tax payer, on behalf of all tax payers!

T. Findlay

Mike is sick of construction on Great Northern Road

Road projects behind schedule