The taxpayers get the shafts
The latest on Portland commissioner Dandy Dan Ryan's park lighting fiasco would be funny if it weren't so infuriating. If you're just joining us, Ryan, newly installed as the city parks chief, had his minions rip out more than 100 old light poles in the parks because a child was injured when one of them collapsed after a hammock was attached to it. Ry-Guy was going for 243 of them before somebody clued him in that, duh, the replacement poles won't be ready for more than a year, and it's not a good idea to have the parks unlit at night.
Apparently all of the lights in Irving Park are gone. Every single one. Now, that's scary.
So now it's an emergency, and the City Council is clucking around trying to hustle the new ones into place, but it's going to take a while. Meanwhile, maybe they'll put some temporary lights in. Maybe.
But here's the maddening part: The price tag for the 243 new light poles? $14.5 million.
You math majors are way ahead of me. That's $59,670.78 apiece.
Wow. Just wow.
This is a good enough reason to go protest at Dandy Dan Ryan's house.
ReplyDelete$60K each per light pole, but we can't fund other things in this city? SMDH
Ryan reminds me of the guy in the White House. A puppet controlled by the bureaucracy under him
ReplyDeleteAn unhealthy RW media diet will do that to a person.
DeleteAre the new ones gold plated?
ReplyDeleteAnd…why would anyone go to a park in Portland after dark?
I agree about going to a Portland park after dark but a couple weeks ago my wife insisted we go up to Tabor Park to see a "rare" planetary alignment with the full moon. We drove up there at dusk and the park was full of people parked to see the same event. The alignment wasn't all that big of a deal but it gave me a small glimmer of hope that people actually came out for it. In this day and age it doesn't take much.
DeleteHe rips the lights out before doing his homework, but if he was in charge of the schools six years ago, we'd still have lead-based drinking water for all the kids. Portland's mayor and council continue to hose taxpayers while stepping on their own hoses.
ReplyDeleteHow am I going to find my keys that I lost in the bushes if I can't look under the light of a street lamp?
ReplyDeleteSo, are the cretins in Portland just expected to accept the cost of $60k per light pole? Just move on? Nothing to see here? Unbelievable. Well, hey, I have a PO box, would you all mind sending me, say, $5k a week for a while? I'd really appreciate it!
ReplyDeleteIt is truly no wonder that Portland is going down the tubes now, thanks to the liberal morons that seem to run the show. Sad to see. We're certainly sick of seeing liberal morons, that's for sure.
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