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Originally Posted by Barnes
But I thought you didn't care cause you're moving to Okotoks? When I was there yesterday I don't think I left the province?
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I changed my mind when I found out that provincial taxes are being used to fund this project... that means that even though I won't be living in Calgary anymore, I still have to help pay for this dam thing.
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Originally Posted by Barnes
A Calatrava bridge for only $22 million is amazing bang for our buck. Good value =/= cheap.
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Your opinion only. Most people in Calgary/Alberta don't know Calatrava from a hole in the ground... and they don't care to know him either or any of his "architectural works of art".
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Really? No comparison at all? Citizens were outraged at the cost of the Centre St. Bridge and didn't see why we needed a bridge modeled after some fancy pants monument in Trafalgar Square when a simple bridge could do and some fancy pants sculptor to make 4 lions.
The C-Train was seen as a unnecessary and ridiculous luxury at the time by some as well.
And pig with lipstick cliche? Barf.
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As for some people being outraged at the cost of those projects, sure there was. But in no way was the public outrage at all comparable to what has been seen with this "pedestrian bridge"
This bridge project is seen by a lot of taxpayers to be extravagent over-the-top spending. Build a bridge sure... just don't pay 22 million to build one so you can have some fancy pants architects name on it when something just as nice could have been built for 18 million by employing a different architectural firm.