The city of destruction

Imagine if you would for a moment that there is a city which was once the crown jewel of Canada...the oldest city, and the most vibrant port...now, in a perfect world, this city would harvest this great advantage and continue to prosper by adapting...

Unfortunately, in reality, this city has made bad decision after bad decision...they enacted a law saying that no new buildings could be over 25 stories (preventing skyscrapers and the accompanying big business)...they added parishes on each side, but allowed them to continue to be separate, a division that still exists today with major roads in each part, and arguably the most confusing street layout in the country...and then every summer, the worst of all possible decisions happened, with the city starting construction (if you can call it constructive) on every major route into the city, making it easier to not support the city.

The reason I question whether the construction is constructive are the terrible practices which the city employs...for one, the city allows construction companies to take on jobs, cut the pavement and leave it for months at a time. The causes significant risks to anyone who happens to use these routes (and at times, there can be construction on three of the four paths from east to the centre of the city, and both paths from the west side)...another problem is that the city's standard for pavement quality is terrible, making so that certain roads are paved once a year or once every two years, which is both incredibly inconvenient and a terrible waste of money...and the city does a terrible job of planning, with one road built on a swamp, and several built below sea level, with poor traffic control on nearly all of them...


But the worst thing about this city and their destruction ways is stupid decision after stupid decision...the city's pension plan is 151 million dollars short, so what do they do? They commit roughly 130 million dollars to build a new police station when the old one is perfectly fine...also, they built a new transit headquarters for 23.5 million, when they had a working facility and worked on a proposal to "gift" the old land to a big box store which would kill all the businesses in the area...and the kicker is that it doesn't seem to matter who gets elected, because there are always enough people on council who have no vision towards the future at all...