Southwest borough parks wait for new jungle gyms

Parks in Montreals Southwest borough are a few jungle gyms short after the city deemed them unsafe and tore them down.

Borough councillor Alain Vaillancourt said some of the playground equipment dated back to the 1970s and badly neededreplacing.

He said the city conductedan 18-month review and concluded thatof the boroughs 37 parks, about half had seensome or all of their equipment removed.

Vaillancourt said budget cuts hit the borough hard, and with repairs running at an expected cost of several million dollars, he said the playground upgrades are more of a "medium-term project."

Replacing the structures wont take 20 years, VaillancourtassuredCBC News however,it will certainly take longer than a year to replace the equipment.

For Little Burgundy residentOdette Hall, thats far too long a wait.

They should do it in [less time], like maybe a year not two, three. No, thats too long for the little kids to wait, Hall said.