This letter to the editor was published in the Jan. 22 edition of the Meridian Source.
The other morning on the week of Jan. 12, while driving to work we all noticed our streets being scraped by the city.
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I came to a stop and noticed a grader stopped on the road and noticed a long lineup of cars that were waiting to get by the grader.
As I was patiently waiting at my stop sign, I noticed this long lineup of cars were trying to get around the grader as he was trying to do his job.
I then noticed the driver of the grader get very mad, throwing his arms in the air and spitting out what was clearly some inappropriate verbal diarrhea toward the drivers.
I know everyone can get impatient at times, especially in regard to snow removal.
I don’t find Lloyd as bad as Edmonton when it comes to our streets being cleaned after a few months of snow accumulation.
That community, any maybe, even our own, could obviously use more graders to help alleviate the long wait times to remove snow, but there just isn’t money in the budgets to do so, even as our home taxes continue to grow every year.
We really need to take a look at how this country is spending our taxpayers’ money.
Our country does seem to want to put other countries before our own when it comes to supporting needed major expenditures such as snow removal budgets. We continue to send billions of dollars away from Canada as we watch our streets fill with snow and our communities becoming more unsafe.
To our impatient drivers and frustrated graders … let’s all just take a deep breath!
– Cory Bourassa
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