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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
Judging by the way you presented your arguement (If you represent the views of a lot of people in these communities) it looks to me like people in these communities will serve up a lesson in hypocracy for criticizing the Tsu Tina of NIMBYism for turning down Plan A by spending efforts towards their own kind of NIMBYism to prevent Plan B.
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I live in Lakeview, and the widening of Glenmore as part of this will at least disrupt our lives during constuction.
The general attitude around the community is, and has been since we've lived here past 4+ years, that something was going to go haywire with the Tsuu Tina, and there was a good chance that 37th St was going to turn into another Glenmore trail....so its not a shock that people are going to be fighting over.
There's a begrudging acceptence that this was going to be the case. The traffic trying to pull a u turn by coming into Lakeview on Crowchild when Glenmore is buggered up once every 2 weeks is frustrating as residents, so at least that will be alliviated with a new road.
Two other options are extending Crowchild across the resovoir, but that's not likely, or is using the extra wide 66th Ave in Lakeview as a cut accross from Crowchild to the new 37th St bridge.
About 120 homes on 37st are going to be demolished if 37th St from Glenmore option is to be chosen. As mentioned, residents here half expected this was going to happen after all was said and done, so there's not going to be vocieferous arguments against it from residents, its the environmental issues that will be sticking points, although again, most environmentalists in this area have also conceded that this was a likely final option.
If this is the way its going to go, the big contention will be to not allow any access from Lakeview to 37th (to prevent the cutting through from Crowchild and vice versa), and cutting the casino access out (and prevent any parking in Lakeview and walking to the casino) off of 37th St.