Editor:
Re: City to open own restaurant on Burnaby Mountain, NOW News
Well, this will be fun. When this restaurant re-opens, we might be in for some of parallels the city uses to operate the city.
First, the restaurant workers’ union will lobby to elect a union shill as our city mayor to ensure their jobs are safe.
Then the city council will see the beautiful location of this restaurant and immediately ruin it by erecting a 40-storey phallus that this council seems so fond of.
This restaurant will be open for all. Except those of us who don’t drive because this city is built only for cars where pedestrians are considered a nuisance.
Where all intersections require a need to call for the ability to cross, which is automatically offered to cars.
The route to the restaurant will be car-choked like all city streets where the peons on foot will be forced to run a gauntlet of poorly constructed paths of broken concrete dodging the traffic signs placed in our way barely wide enough for two people to walk together always avoiding cars as they whiz by us barely centimetres away.
The restaurant will then operate for the whims like our city management. A flagger will summon us to our table a route obstructed by very important city business.
I hope this restaurant is a good fit for all of us.
Let’s hope the work force is not exclusive entry-level work and the staff is paid a living wage something the city manager is familiar with. One day he ensures the sewers work and the next he manages the restaurant.
Maybe the city should stick to popcorn stands.
Ron Veigh, Burnaby
