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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
I still don't buy the argument that the festival was only planned after the closure debate.
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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
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.
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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
It's time for your side of the argument to back up this assertion. Common sense tells all of us that they were trying to close lanes because something was already being planned.
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These are your words. You were adament that a festival was planned before any lane closures were debated and wanted proof otherwise. I provided that proof by stating that there was a different goal in mind, driven by Druh
via (not
DUE to) the Plan It Calgary project (and so stated in her own words.) This was NOT
because of Plan-It as you said I said in your post below.
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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Ummmm, what? You mentioned Plan-it, saying that this event was because of Plan-it. Bigtime and I said Plan-it is totally unrelated to this event. The line you quoted shows it. Druh referenced plan-it to figure out the road's designation, nothing more.
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I understand if you and Bigtime misread my posts. It happens.
Heck, from my perspective, this "festival" isn't one so perhaps I am misreading things too... it now appears to me that this is simply "bike path overflow".
Now if THAT is the case, and this isn't to be turned into another Lilac Fest or something, then it is even worse. Why close down streets when Calgary has the most bike paths available than any other major city in the world (as far as I recall.) Why not just use and promote them ALL? Would this not be better thinking? You would get the whole city involved, not just one ward. People may not even know how good a system we have here, so they could be taught.
No, this was different. And ultimately dumb. I used to ride and rollerblade a ton. Would I want to do it next to a couple lines of slow moving, exhaust spewing vehicles? Not a chance.
Bottom line for me, epic fail. If it WAS a festival (i.e. Lilac style) that they want to start, there are better places for it. If it was to get people out biking, blading etc, it again was the wrong place to do it.