Hot button issues keep getting recycled
Times Colonist
June 26, 2014
When I moved to Victoria in 1984, the three hot-button issues of the day were sewage treatment, amalgamation and light-rail transit.
Somewhere in the Capital Regional District, there is a room full of studies that were commissioned then put on a shelf for and against these three issues. Over the ensuing years, each issue has percolated to the top, been well thrashed in the media and then put back on the shelf until next time.
It’s time to retire NIMBY and, I suggest, replace it with NIML (not in my lifetime).
Brings to mind my favourite Victoria joke:
Q. How many Victorians does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. None, they would rather sit in the dark than change.
Or the alternative answer:
A. 10, one to change the bulb and nine to whine that they like the old one better.
John Simpson
Victoria
© Copyright Times Colonist
Times Colonist
June 26, 2014
When I moved to Victoria in 1984, the three hot-button issues of the day were sewage treatment, amalgamation and light-rail transit.
Somewhere in the Capital Regional District, there is a room full of studies that were commissioned then put on a shelf for and against these three issues. Over the ensuing years, each issue has percolated to the top, been well thrashed in the media and then put back on the shelf until next time.
It’s time to retire NIMBY and, I suggest, replace it with NIML (not in my lifetime).
Brings to mind my favourite Victoria joke:
Q. How many Victorians does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. None, they would rather sit in the dark than change.
Or the alternative answer:
A. 10, one to change the bulb and nine to whine that they like the old one better.
John Simpson
Victoria
© Copyright Times Colonist