Sunday, February 19, 2012

Lansdowne Park - monument to neglect

On Friday night, hockey had to be cancelled - the roof was leaking. The 67's had to wait until Saturday afternoon because water was dripping into the Civic Centre - not just into the seats, this time the water was leaking onto the ice surface.
But water infiltration was nothing new, the City of Ottawa has known for years about the problem. Why has nothing been done?
For some reason, there are people running the show at City Hall who think that you have to build a supermarket before you can fix up City assets at Lansdowne Park.
Some of those people claim that the legal case brought by the Friends of Lansdowne has delayed needed maintenance at Lansdowne. This is nonsense. The City is at perfect liberty to go ahead and fix up the roof of the arena.
No, it is the obsession that we must first build a subsidized shopping centre, that has led the City to continue its neglect of its assets at Lansdowne Park.

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