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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Don't Aski...Don't TEll":

Anonymous 5/26 7:13pm said: "Why is there no one from the town explaining this? Why is no one from the organization explaining the procedures and how everything has been covered satisfactorily? Public Relations person? Anyone?"

Is this a serious question? No one from the Town is explaining it because except for about 25 people that hang out on this blog, no one cares! Stop anyone on the street and ask them... they don't care. Hell I spoke to my supposed "smart, well-read" neighbour and she has not heard of this issue.

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The above  is the kind of argument regularly dismissed by consultants and other experts as "anecdotal" and therefore without substance.
More than twenty-five people "hang out" on this blog on a daily basis. It is not "anecdotal"
It is recorded for quality purposes.Sniff! Sniff!
It is probably true that a casual check with  the "man on the street" or the "smart, well read woman" would  disclose  complete indifference to the issues discussed on this blog.
We do not claim to be the world.
 This is a local blog.
 It's not the Globe and Mail. 
One could argue we are insular.
Is that a fault in our small part of the world?
Read the title; "Our Town and It's Business" This morning's collection of comments are the best yet. Hardly a mean swipe amongst them.
All kinds of things are discussed. There's a t comment from an  author who objects to the Wump World being on U tube.
I had never heard of the book. So I listened to it on Utube. NOw I know about it. 
Someone from the Region  logged in to give us a full history of the Bathurst Street fencing issue. 
I've been  back in office  for nine of the past ten years  so I know it's accurate. It doesn't take away from the point I made about parts of the fence being down in hollows and  houses, it's supposed to protect, well above  the fence. 
Also, fifty years ago, Bathurst was a gravel road.in our neck of the woods.
In the seventies, contours were reduced, it was paved and straightened  and throughout that time it was always a regional road and before that a county road.  It was never a cow path. It was never a local road. It was opened originally  to carry traffic from Lake Ontario to Bradford.
It was re-constructed within the first five years after the Region was created because the Province was paying half the cost to make up for the years the Toronto and York Roads Commission refused to fulfill it's function.
Funds spent on the  acoustic fence and wasted resources on trees that died are a burr under my saddle because of   deliberate obstruction to the town's objective of providing trail links and underpasses on major traffic arteries, regional roads, to provide safety for pedestrians, on the basis of cost.
On the one hand we have examples of faulty financial management by the region and on the other, refusal to co-operate with the town on  what should be a  priority for both levels of government.
Safety for the greater numbers of people.