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Canadian Bureaucrats Don't "Think Different"

Posted by kdawson on from the sense-of-design dept.

owlgorithm writes "Apple's new store in Montreal has three parking meters on the street in front of it. The city is in the middle of a campaign to reduce downtown parking. In Apple's ever-conscientious attempt to improve design, they offered to reimburse the city for the parking meters and their revenue if the city would remove them. Answer: Non — because 'We've never done it before, so we can't.'"

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  1. Re:Have a store employee continually feed meters by hax0r_this · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Someone mod that insightful.

  2. Re:Canada's Problem by Secret+Rabbit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yah, because that's different from any politician anywhere in the world.

    But, to answer your toll-ish post with another: It's better to not do something because you've never done it, than to continue to bomb the world indiscriminately because that's what you always do (I'm looking at you USA which is where I can tell you come from).