Patience is a virtue, but when a problem remains unresolved for more than 10 years, people can’t be blamed for getting fed up. The city’s response to a washed out culvert with a popular footpath that ran across the top of it, in a ravine at the bottom of Bennett Rd., has definitely tried the patience of local residents. We first wrote about it in 2009, when it had already been at least three years since the washout occurred in a heavy rainstorm, and have since reported on it several times, along with a range of excuses for why it wasn’t fixed. Kelly Byrnes, who’s sent us numerous notes about it over the years, emailed to say it still hasn’t been fixed, adding, “I know I sound like a broken record on this.”It is certainly a familiar tune, and particularly the range of responses from Toronto Water and transportation services, which have been whistling into the wind instead of doing something about it.

Source: thestar August 30, 2017 20:26 UTC