[Barnaby]

The city seems to put a lot of effort and resources in building shiny new things to replace old run down things, but not much effort into maintaining them, so they also become run down very quickly.

Sounds like a municipality's version of being house poor.

 

[Oliver_William]

I wonder how many millions of dollars the city spends on upkeep. I wonder how much is wasted removing graffiti, fixing broken street furniture, picking up garbage strewn all over the place, repairing damaged bus shelters and fixing all the damage from all the other sorts of vandalism we see in the city. I think we need to place the blame where it belongs. It belongs to all the creeps and losers and meth heads etc that vandalize and ruin all the attempts the city makes to beautify the downtown.