“The city’s deputy commissioner of transportation and environment services, Kevin Rice, told the Post that while Defazio’s heart was in the right place, he broke a city bylaw that says private citizens cannot modify city roads.”
I thought good intentions trumped law at least according to Leftists.
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
The absurdity here is that he is being charged with modifying a city road. There have been instances when citizens have become weary of road racers and gang members cruising on a street so they put in speed bumps. In that case, a road has been modified.
In this case, a road was built to facilitate the flow of vehicular traffic. When the road deteriorated, it was no longer capable to fulfilling its original function. By filling in the hole, the citizen was not modifying the road, but was instead restoring it to serviceability. If the council wants to be correct, the ordinance should be reworded to read that private citizens may neither modify city roads nor repair them.