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Bobblehead · 05-12-2009, 12:51 PM

I was agains the idea, but reading this article: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Co...452/story.html makes me wonder if this isn't a tempest in a teapot and perhaps the time spent debating this could better have been spent on something else?

1) Farrel is the Alderman for this area. If anyone is being annoyed, it will be her own constituents most of all.

2) Memorial has the capacity to be able to handle the reduced traffic on Sundays. "Traffic is light enough on a Sunday to accommodate two-way travel on the north lanes, said transportation general manager John Hubbell. Traffic counts show 850 cars travelling in one direction at peak times on Sundays, while each lane can handle 1,500."

3) Memorial is already shut down for other things, and none of those created any of this backlash. "Memorial, for example, is partially closed for the Stampede marathon in July."

It makes me wonder why this is such a large issue?

05-12-2009, 12:51 PM	#47
Bobblehead Franchise Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: in your blind spot. Exp:	I was agains the idea, but reading this article: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Co...452/story.html makes me wonder if this isn't a tempest in a teapot and perhaps the time spent debating this could better have been spent on something else? 1) Farrel is the Alderman for this area. If anyone is being annoyed, it will be her own constituents most of all. 2) Memorial has the capacity to be able to handle the reduced traffic on Sundays. "Traffic is light enough on a Sunday to accommodate two-way travel on the north lanes, said transportation general manager John Hubbell. Traffic counts show 850 cars travelling in one direction at peak times on Sundays, while each lane can handle 1,500." 3) Memorial is already shut down for other things, and none of those created any of this backlash. "Memorial, for example, is partially closed for the Stampede marathon in July." It makes me wonder why this is such a large issue? __________________ "The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence." —Bill Clinton "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge." —Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress "But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity" —WKRP in Cincinatti