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They created the BLIP. They allowed it to become a retail big-box development. They failed to upgrade the road infrastructure. They failed to build sidewalks. They failed to provide adequate transit. They failed to provide adequate litter receptacles, cleanup, and other amenities. Despite all of that, it is a huge success for most of the retailers located there. I suspect if people need to go for a MRI there they will, just as they will go to Canadian Tire to buy what is on sale this week. HRM has $50 million to spend on a palatial library and $15 million to spend on a skating oval that gets limited use. They have no problem building 4-pad arenas at $40-$50 million a pop. And let's not even mention the bike lanes that most residents do not want and get very limited use. But they cannot put sidewalks, litter receptacles, and proper roadways in the biggest business destination on the Halifax side of the harbor? This is what I mean when I go on about wasteful spending by HRM and their failure to focus on their core responsibilities. |
Sure, BL is horrible planning, top to bottom, and that's on HRM. But it becomes the province's problem the minute they put a public service facility there. If the infrastructure isn't there, and they can't put it there, then they need to reconsider location.
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No, they need to tell HRM to step up and do their job. HRM is awash in cash and needs to stop wasting it on frills. |
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I really dislike Bayers Lake. Interesting that HRM had no idea that a new health facility was going to Bayers Lake; I wonder how much the facility really was planned, or if they just needed an election announcement and popped it out of a hat?
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That was erroneous reporting, as HRM was asked and consulted well in advance.
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Interesting... the election rhetoric has begun. Jamie Baillie is promising a $2 billion infrastructure rebuild, including a new Victoria General Hospital:
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Yes, yes, a perfect site for a hospital. Another crony braindead decision from this crony braindead Government. |
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Put aside the obvious corruption that they paid 12X the fair market value for the land from a Liberal Party donor. I mean it's a ludicrous decision even without the corruption. |
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It's not a hospital.
The price for the property is not out of line, even according the that noted urbanist W. Mason. Let's move on. |
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Washmill Lake underpass project flawed from start: auditor general The project took a lot longer than expected and went millions of dollars over budget. Munroe estimates the project is likely $11 million over budget for the city's portion, not $6 million as was the original estimate. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...eral-1.2921841 Let's complain about a library and a skating oval, but praise a radically over budget Bayers overpass and now a hare brained hospital or medical clinic or whatever we're talking about, in an industrial park. You don't spend money on sidewalks for industrial parks -- because they're not for medical clinics or pedestrians. |
Washmill was a debacle not because it was in Bayers Lake, but because it was a HRM-managed (ahem) project.
Subsequent to that the lesson was learned to inflate project budgets considerably to provide for a fudge factor for when things go off the rails. This is how we ended up with a $50 million library and a $15 million Oval. |
So once this new facility is in operation, even if one gets there by bus, at least they can spend some time out there doing some shopping before they head back to the city or where ever they are going.
We can expect that sidewalks will have to be added as more people travel by bus and foot - let's not forget bike lanes too. Just like a real shopping area in a real city. Of course I don't believe that anybody is being forced to go to BL; they can still go to QEII if they prefer |
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IMO, the Washmill underpass was needed. Now you can feasibly walk into BL from CP. It is far, but there will be alot more
They should build residential towers with underground parking on the vast stretches of parking lot out there. There are grocery stores and this would create a new community. |
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There are very many specialized clinics at the VG site, why build the new space in BL if it is only going to mirror what is at DGH and Cobequid?, my sense of a new space was to relocate the VG clinics, many of which are related to surgery and other specialties.
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