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Originally Posted by Muta
We'd be able to upgrade our existing infrastructure more often, which is just as critical, if we didn't have to keep expanding outwards and putting massive amounts of money into those projects.
The inner-city, which is just as important, gets one bridge which upgrades infrastructure and beautifies this area of the city, and costs a drop in the bucket compared to other projects... and it's a big deal? Why aren't the inner city residents up in arms over the other projects that have been going on for years that they'll never use?
The bridge is built, it's awesome, it's going to be a great addition to our city... people need to start liking it and get on board with it. I'm happy we're thinking past basic functionality and developing our projects with world-class aesthetics in mind. We're a world class city... we're past the point of being Red Deer, High Level, North Battleford or Yellowknife.
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Really, that's all the poor little inner city got? One bridge? That's all they wanted and won't ask for anything more? Sheesh.
The dramatics in this thread border on ridiculous!
I highly doubt no one could follow the point Left Wing was making. It wasn't that hard to follow.
Someone originally compared the bridge to an interchange in some so called parasite community and it's been used again and again. So he/she brought up that there was no one on the bridge and probably a ton on said stupid interchange. I find it hard to grasp the 1percentagers on this forum can't follow the point he was making whether it was statistically relevant or a perfect comparable.
It's a pretty thing. It was hardly necessary, I bike and commute to work in the summer and run on those paths probably more than 99% of Calgarians and I hardly think it was warranted, and even if it was, probably didn't need to be 25+ milllion and take that long to build. Am I going to use it, you bet. I'll see what it's like and I'l change up my routine and use it. It's interesting and neat and colourful and you can spit over the side or look for fish like any other bridge in Calgary. Chances are the numb-skulls who are taking pictures on it will back up onto the bike path and get in the way regardless that there's dedicated lanes. People with strollers, dogs, skateboards, children and old folks don't seem to get there's a different walking path and a bike path along a ton of memorial drive so how is this bridge going to be any different? It's not. . . It's not going to amazingly make the bike commute in the morning that much better. It's chilly, you have to peddle. you're only supposed to be going 20 kmph anyway and a big red bridge isn't going to make that much of a difference.
No the suburbs haven't been getting large interchanges at the expense of the poor inner city folks being punished. No the suburbs aren't going without an interchange because the inner city got some luxurious bridge. That's just silly.
But to claim it's a necessity that was needed is just silly too. The debate should be was it a waste of money to build a bridge that's pretty and architecturally exciting? Seems like a waste of money to me but I don't know much about those things. I'm just a troglodyte suburbanite who needed the spell check for "architecturally exciting". My next home will likely be in the SW around Marda Loop or out of the city limits.
For those all excited about the bridge thinking it's a terrible idea I'd say suck it up and move to somewhere more boring and lacking in colour. Perhaps Edmonton. For those inner city latte sipping whatchamacallits probably best to move to Tokyo and live in your high rise super density paradise that you seemingly want to live in... Or Vancouver, they'd probably take you too!