The Many Twists and Turnes of Politics.

Buses trunle around town regularly carrying no-one but the driver. 
At night, inthe dark,I think of a movie I saw when I was a child ,around about the time of SnowWhite and the Seven Dwarfs. It was  called The Legend of  Sleepy Hollow with a  headless horseman galloping  wildly through the forest terrorizing all who saw him.
It's hard  to see there's  a driver in the bus , let alone passengers.
A couple of years ago, Council was notified a bus  run on Industrial Parkway was  to be  cancelled.
Councillor Gaertner objected.
Council referred the matter to the Chamber of Commerce. They objected. . 
It was cancelled. We never noticed or heard from anyone inconvenienced by the cancellation. 
Since then, concrete pads  of different sizes have been laid at bus stops that  I never knew  were there. Never saw a passenger waiting or walking . Never saw a person dismounting from a bus. .
If there are any, I believe we can be assured they are being transported  by bus. They are not walking.
Nevertheless  we are  to build sidewalks on both sides of  Industrial Parkway to connect  the  concrete pad bus stops. . 
The project is so huge it must  be undertaken in four phases. 
The last figure I heard was $2 million.
One hundred and forty street trees  will  be removed from our urban forest to make way for  concrete sidewalks for  invisible pedestrians and  passengers  transported  by heavily subsidized  buses driven by  a  lonely  bus driver.
The  trees  to be  destroyed  are  probably along the road that services Sheppard's Bush on one side and the railway on the other..
Services is somewhat of a misnomer, since there are no  buildings   on either side of that  serpentine right of way.
Removing  trees  on the  Sheppard's Bush side will expose the rusty five foot high chain link fence that serves no useful purpose. 
Behind it , there's a  weed infested  berm that can't be maintained. 
That's a misnomer as well.
 It's a pile of  road rubble stashed  there to save money from disposing of it properly. 
It obscures the view of the playing fields. Like the  passing traffic might somehow interfere with the games. . 
It takes up  space that might  be better  used for parking and yes, a pathway for potential pedestrians and  people on scooters.Or even  mayhap,  straighten the crazy bends in the road.
The  road should be dubbed Timpson's Folly. It got him elected.