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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
This issue wouldn't have even come up if the festival wasn't in the works. If nothing was in the works, no one would have asked to close the road. It costs money to close a road, you don't just close a road without a reason.
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That's the thing. When Druh Farrell proposed closing Memorial for FOUR Sundays, there were no plans. No festivals, no concerts, no activities, nothing.
http://www.calgarysun.com/news/colum...99966-sun.html
No mention of a festival of any kind. Just an absolute moron of an alderman proposing to close a major road four times "just to have fun". It wasn't until after this idiotic scheme got approved, though only for one day instead of four, that an entirely separate group threw together a half assed attempt at a festival. Good on them for trying, but as noted, there was no need to close the road down.
Basically, Farrell came up with a hairbrained and poorly thought out scheme, got approval for only one shut down instead of four, had someone else do the work for her, and now is in full revisionist history mode, trying to pretend that this entire thing was what she planned from the start.