Two Hamilton teens are wondering why the city’s plan to build a much needed basketball court in Gage Park is going to take 25 years.
“I don’t know about you, but I will be 41 when this court is supposed to be built,” Norrie King, 16, told councillors at Monday’s Public Works Committee meeting.
“And I’m just speaking from seeing my parents that I will probably be more focused on back pain than playing recreational basketball,” she added, causing councillors to laugh inside council chambers.
King and her friend Julia Neven, also 16, spoke to councillors on Monday asking the city that the court, which was supposed to be built by 2051, be done and ready to play on next year.
If that basketball court were a parking lot it would have been completed long ago, and probably would be being re-paved right now.
Kind of similar to how sidewalks get closed or torn up for months on end without a pedestrian detour, but a roadway get closed for a day because of construction and reopened the next day as if nothing ever happened.