Toronto man builds steps for $550 that city said would cost between $65,000 to $150,000

Louder with Crowder ^ | 07/21/2017 | Courtney Kirtchoff

[gattaca]

Oh Canada. The City of Toronto estimated the cost of new steps would range between $65,000-$150,000. Like everything else, the city also dragged their feet in getting the work done.

Fed up, a Toronto man built the steps for $550. No, I didn’t forget zeros. Five-hundred and fifty dollars.

So of course the city tore the steps down.

retiree in Toronto was unhappy with the length of time the city was taking to build a flight of stairs on a precarious slope. And so he did it himself — at a fraction of the cost.

Adi Astl, with the help of a homeless man he hired, built eight steps for $550, more than 100 times cheaper than the $65,000-$150,000 the city had estimated for the job.

Gee, it’s almost as if the private market via private citizens are more skilled, capable, and feel a greater sense of urgency than the elected officials who read notes from TelePrompters. Who’d have thunk it.

[5th MEB]

It’s called maintenance, any thing that can be built has to be maintained.

[Neidermeyer]

His steps probably weren’t ADA compliant.
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ADA is USA , This is Canuckistan.

[bert]

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