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Originally Posted by CMPunk
As far as I understand from the link Resolute 14 posted, Dru wanted the road closed for every Sunday in August so that people could enjoy using the roadways down by the river. There was nothing mentioned about the Bow River Flow festival. If the festival had come forward about wanting the road closures, i would have no issue with it. My issue is that Dru decided that she wanted to do this without any reasoning, at least no public reasoning.
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It's likely (probobly certain) that the festival organizers had talked about doing the closure every Sunday afternoon in August. That's why Druh was talking about it that way. The festival may not even have had a name yet at that point.
If you were planning a festival that required a lane closure, and actually was "about" closing lanes for traffic when they aren't needed for traffic (i.e. Sunday afternoon), wouldn't one of the first things you'd do in planning is actually apply for the road lanes in question to be closed? Seems to me like that's the first thing I'd do, or else there's no point in any of the other planning.
Like I've said in the other posts, you don't need "public" reasoning to close down lanes of a road. You just have to go in and pay for it, basically.
The media put a spin on this one back in April/May, and made lots of people believe that this is so unusual. It's not.
And heaven forbid an alderman trying to plan (if she was even involved) a fun event in her ward - a fun event for the whole city that will give people a sense of city pride, and bring a little bit of money to her own ward. If she is involved in planning, it was probably no more then having an idea, and then handing that idea over to others, and giving a little bit of support when required.
I really don't understand the negativity against this one event. If you are against this one event, you've got to be against them all.