I have no problem at all with festivals. I don't ever attend any of them, but I'm not going to deny them to the people that do enjoy them. My issues is that this festival wasn't properly communicated to the people of Calgary during this whole debate. All we saw was a self centered alderperson who made it seem like this road closer was all because she wanted it because she thought it would be "fun". If the Bow River Flow committee had just come forward from the beginning and said they wanted the road closure because they were having this festival, I'm sure the public criticism of the event would have been much, much less.
Probably would have helped with advertising as well since I'm thinking alot of people didn't know about it from the reviews I've seen so far.
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