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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
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. |
I'll definitely admit that it's hard to know the truth, because only details that I have are the ones reported by the media, and I know the media was often misguiding when the debate for this event went on. Micheal Platt's article makes you believe that the idea for this was from Druh herself, but it doesn't actually say that. It just says she took the idea to council, it could have been someone else's idea. If a group in her ward was planning it, that would be the logical step to take - get the ward alderman on board. Perhaps the group had an idea in mind, perhaps even to so it four weeks in a row, took it to the alderman, who brought the idea to council, then when there was a little bit of backlash, the group decided to just try one day first.
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got approval for only one shut down instead of four,
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Like I said, this was never a matter of getting approval. You or I could walk down to city hall today and pay for the closure of two lanes of Memorial Drive. Of course, it being a larger road, it would be subject to the Transportation dept's approval, but if the traffic numbers still work (which they do in this case), the Tranportation dept is never going to say no. Like I said, council didn't vote to approve the closures, they voted not to open up these things to council vote - which would set a precedent that could have negative outcomes down the road.