Douglas Snow Aquatic Centre in North York has been closed for “state of good repairs” since the beginning of September.  They were scheduled to have all work complete by “Dec 31 2012”.  We stopped in today with high-hopes that our long missed Wednesday morning pre-school swim time would be operational and it wasn’t.  Work-men were still in the pool area.  Equipment could be seen being moved around.  The work fence and signage was still up outside.  The pool was empty.

The recreation assistant we spoke to could only say it’ll be “soon”.  Lessons are set to start on Saturday, and it’s my understanding it takes two and a half days to fill the pool… if I were you I’d expect phone calls from Parks & Rec telling you your first week of lessons (at least) will be postponed 😦

Update: Jan 3 — we received our phone call today tell us swim lessons would be postponed a week with a credit given to our parks & rec account (they can’t extend the lessons due to March Break schedules).  For me information call Mrs Bain @ 416-395-7593.

Honestly, I had near zero expectation that a construction project for a government entity would ever be completed on time.  Here’s hoping it was at least done on budget.