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Originally Posted by Superflyer
I think the biggest thing that is setting people off is that the road was closed and was not used outside of a dozen people. If booths and bounce houses were set up on the road, or if there were road hockey games played I think that it would have been a different story, but instead Memorial was put down to two lanes for no real reason. They could have had the festival and still left memorial alone.
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It wasn't ideally done, but the problem is that if you've got the festival happening on the bike-paths with no alternative route, then you'll get cyclists speeding through the festival area where there are children playing and generally heavy congestion. So I get the logic behind that; I think, though, that they would have been better to put more activities on the road and leave the bike-paths for cyclists.
Although the big problem that I pointed out with the site from day 1: you cannot even see the river from Memorial through most of this stretch; given a choice, where are you going to walk? Along the top of the flood barrier, where there's a pedestrian path and where you can look at the river, or on a pyloned road beside a couple lanes of gridlocked traffic? For being called the Bow River Flow, this seemed to have absolutely nothing to do with the river.