[Cowboy89]

Originally Posted by frinkprof

Fixed.

BS. No Druh Farrell, no Bow River Flow. You go to great pains to make it seem like there was an overwelming uprising of grassroots support, but in this article she takes credit for the idea, which BTW wasn't to create a festival but rather to close the road for the sake of closing the road. Only when the closures all Sundays in August moved to one Sunday in August did it become a festival.

http://www.calgarysun.com/news/colum...99966-sun.html

For the hundreds of unhappy motorists who've hammered their anger home in emails and calls to media outlets, hearing Farrell's heels digging into the asphalt is not good news.
Her idea, to close the south lanes of Memorial Dr. on Sundays in August between 3 St. and 10 St. S.W., has upset a great many who could care less about cycling and sauntering on a stretch of riverside road.
Farrell says Calgary's media is helping to fuel the negativity -- and it's true, plenty of ink and pixels have been devoted to criticizing the Ward 7 alderman and her proposal.
But Calgarians are a free-thinking lot, and many clearly believe that a major artery is no place for people to play -- some have said so in reasonable terms, while others have suggested burning the alderman in effigy.
Farrell is listening, but the insults and fist-shaking fury are doing little to keep Memorial open.
Indeed, Farrell says she is so perturbed by the foul reaction, that she believes the closure must proceed, if only to keep the negative element in Calgary from taking over.
"If the cynics were making the decisions in Calgary over the years, we'd have no LRT, no old city hall, no Performing Arts centre, no Lougheed Building," said Farrell.

While critics say any lane closure will result in clogged traffic, Farrell said she took the idea, inspired by similar shut-downs in cities like Rome and Chicago, to the experts at the city's transportation department.