点评:This is so typical of the Vancouver Parks Department's management of their God given assets.
It's started to look seedy and unkempt because nobody in the entire management structure has a clue about aesthetics.
Some bureaucrat has decided that the water for the fountains and the waterfalls must be cut off because of a mythical shortage of water.
Consequently the areas that used to be luxuriant are now dried out and look like they've been abandoned. There's a suspicious shortage of vibrant flowers and variegated plants.
Tell me how there's a water shortage when it rained almost every day throughout the fall, winter and spring?
It's just that some accountant looked at the charge for water and decided that it was an area they could take the budget knife to.
They ought to be ashamed of themselves for their narrow minded, penny pinching attitude.
It's the same wherever water is needed throughout the parks system. They've turned off the supplementary water at another local gem, Trout Lake, too, which means that it will be in all likelihood be closed to summer swimming.
They rip you off with parking fees and eco fees and they extort ridiculous prices for getting into specialty facilities, just because they can
This mean spirited approach runs throughout the Metro region because it's the same guys and culture in the back offices.
Meantimes they spend HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS on waterworks projects in North Vancouver and nobody even looks at the bill.
翻译:这就是温哥华公园管理部门对待上帝赐予的资源的典型做法。
公园开始显得破败不堪,杂乱无章,因为整个管理体系里似乎没人懂什么美学。
某个官僚莫须有地断定喷泉和瀑布的水源短缺,于是决定切断水源。
结果,原本郁郁葱葱的区域如今干涸龟裂,宛如荒废之地。鲜艳的花朵和色彩斑斓的植物也明显减少。
告诉我,整个秋季、冬季和春季几乎每天都在下雨,怎么会缺水呢?
只不过是某个会计看了看水费,觉得这是个可以削减预算的地方。
他们应该为自己这种目光短浅、斤斤计较的态度感到羞耻。
公园系统里所有需要用水的地方都存在同样的问题。他们也关闭了当地另一处瑰宝——鳟鱼湖的补充水源,这意味着夏季很可能无法游泳。
他们收取高额停车费和环保费,还漫天要价地收取特殊设施的费用,就因为他们有权这么做。
这种卑鄙的做法在整个大温哥华地区盛行,因为幕后都是同一批人和同一套文化。
与此同时,他们在北温哥华的水务项目上花费数亿加元,却没人过问账单。