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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
So the options are
1) Druh didn't have a plan, and just wanted to close the street to be "Progressive"
2) Druh knew about the Festival, but for some reason forgot to mention it when being highly critcised for just wanting to close a road
3) Druh deliberately didn't tell anyone about the festival for some unknown reason
4) Druh did mention it, but no one here has found that quote yet
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Read 4x4s post above about how he heard the proposed idea at the time. I remember hearing the same. Do I remember where I heard it? No. I think the word "festival" might be the hang up here. They didn't mention "festival" because the event isn't really a festival like the other festivals in town are. They didn't want people to say, "oh, just another festival." They wanted it to be something a little bit different, which it is and was.
It WAS explained at the time that it's about opening up some lanes for rollerbladers, bikers, street hockey, whatever. For stuff that doesn't really have to be "organized", per se. There also was a little bit of organized stuff thrown in (demonstrations, etc.), and most of that didn't happen in the closed off lanes.
And echoing 4x4 above, where else can you close down even a short stretch of road connected to existing greenspace, where you are only closing down lanes, and no traffic needs to cross through those lanes? Not too many places in Calgary.