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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
I don't understand Bow River Flow hate. Every festival/event has to start somewhere. City administrators have to look into proposed road closures. They would have reviewed whether it affected traffic to an adverse amount.
The majority of traffic on Memorial was probably people driving by to check out how bad traffic was, thereby making the traffic themselves.
Farrel didn't plan it, it as advocating for it. Essentially, people hated it just because Farrell's name was attached to it. There are lots of road closures for various reasons all the time that no one ever complains about.
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Farrell didn't plan
anything. Her original idea was to just shut down Memorial Drive every Sunday throughout the summer. And she offered so little justification for it that one was left believing that the goal was basically to extend a giant middle finger to commuters who use the road and, by extension, local residents - her own constituents. When she found that public reaction was so negative she pared it back to just one day. But she never had a plan or idea of what to do. She just wanted to power trip her way into closing down a major road.
I'll give the organizers of the Bow River Flow a small amount of credit, as they tried to make something useful out of that turd of an idea, but the festival was doomed from the start because Farrell's short-sighted idiocy had already poisoned the city against anything that might have been done.