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Originally Posted by nik-
This city needs to focus a bit on aesthetics now instead of purely functionality.
Public structures and spaces are what makes a city great. People like Ric McIvor are the reason we have a huge courthouse downtown that looks like every other office building instead of the great building it could have been.
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Quite frankly I'd take a better standard of living and quality of life over having a couple of pretty $25 million pedestrian bridges. Assumbing Calgary has close 200,000 property owners that's an average cost of $250 per property owner just for these two stinking pedetrian bridges assuming no cost inflation due to typical city hall incompetance. If they built a series of bridges and improved pathways for that cash (Which I figure they could do for that amount), it would do a much greater service to our people and city.
I agree that making things look pretty can sometimes be beneficial and help the aura of the city, but not on the scale of cost of this proposal.