I live on Westmount St. that leads onto Chebucto Rd. and we have had our own problems with the project to widen the road (RE: Protest planned for police conduct during Chebucto incident). We haven't lost our sidewalks or our front yard but I feel that most of this protest thing was a little stupid. I feel that the protest was done a little too close to the tree cutting day and that the protesters themselves went at it the wrong way. Climbing trees and wrestling with police -- it sounds like a guerilla warfare story! What ever happened peaceful protesting? Also why are there people protesting that don't even live in this city? That makes me mad! Why are THEY (the out of towners) protesting? They don"t live here and don't have to drive down or up Chebucto Rd. in a nasty rush hour. I don't like the fact that so many people lost their front yards and have to put up with so much construction all summer but the city will do what the city thinks will help the traffic problems. I wish the city would have helped the people living on Chebucto a little bit more but having protesters litter, wreck construction equipment, cause the police to use force to stop them from acting stupid and so many other things is dumb!
Just had to get that off my chest!!
