I hadn't been to my parents in house in Bayview for a while but going there on the weeknd there were a lot of anti-BRT lawn signs. Pretty funny. I wish people would just straight up say they don't want to put up with contruction instead of the disingenious arguments they use.
As a general rule I despise NIMBYism, but I think it's unfair to put this all on "rich white people" in Bayview or Pumphill, everyone everywhere does it. The knob hill or whatever community association was all up in arms about a much need Crowchild-Bow Trail expansion and said their solution was for more people to take the train. I laugh everytime I read an opinion to the paper about someone in the Northeast complaining about airplane noise.
If you want the convenience of living in a big city next to your job and all the amenities that come with it you have to accept that a city is not static and things will change. Other people sacrificed their homes (Glenmore expansion, etc) for the city to accomodate 1 million people and now you have to sacrifice too. Or like someone said, move out to the country.
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