Please don’t tell us about break and enters, but rather inform us about gouge and slumber.
Every year the City of Surrey collects tons of taxes not only from property assessments but also parking meters, fines, licence and permit fees, etc.
Yet our roads are a total mess. Some roads have so many patches on them (e.g. 96 Avenue from Scott Road to 128 Street) that every time my car travels on it, it seems like it is communicating in Morse Code.
Granted, TransLink is responsible for the road maintenance, but other cities like Burnaby, Richmond and Vancouver have fewer problems on their roads. If Surrey is indeed the fastest-growing city in the Lower Mainland, shouldn’t the state of the roads reflect this?
Signs along the roads are obscured with vegetation overhang (that responsibility is squarely on the city), lines have all but vanished and cat’s eyes have disappeared from many roads, to name just a few of the many problems we encounter daily.
We read in the news about lots that have unchecked vegetation growth, garbage strewn therein, druggies using these properties as they seem fit, and yet what has the city done about these problems?
It seems like the city is too busy gouging the taxpayers and then going to cozy sleep.
The property owner’s insurance will pay for some losses caused by break and enters. How can we be compensated for the gouging that goes on?
M. Hajee
