No money to fix the roads

Dear Editor,

In the Feb. 17 issue, you presented an article about Durham’s works committee chair and Oshawa councillor Nester Pidwerbecki complaining that there is not enough money to fix the roads! Well, that didn’t take long! Here we go with the B.S.

The garbage incinerator promoted by Pidwerbecki and his pal Roger Anderson is just barely up and running, 14 months late and $26 million over budget (what happened to their promise of “on time and on budget?”) and just starting to spew toxins into our air, water and land, and these same political stooges are now going to start talking about the millions needed to fix our roads.

Recall how they said that the federal gas tax rebates (over $16 million per year) would be used to help finance the burner? Recall how they tried to use that ploy to suggest that the burner would not raise your taxes? Recall how anti-incinerator advocates said that the gas tax rebates were intended for roads and bridges? Recall how we said that your taxes would go up to fix roads and that the public could not blame the increases on the burner under the Anderson-Pidwerbecki formula? Recall the old adage that “figures don’t lie, but liars can figure.”

Jim Richards