You know, if that scenario wasn't obviously in Montreal, I'd be tempted to assume that the bike path was put in some US city. Not because it was necessary, but the local Member of the House managed to pull an 'entitlement' (I liked it better when we were honest and called it 'pork') to put it in . . . . . . . . . so he could burnish his green credentials at election time.
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“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)