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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
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.
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But again, had it not been made do public in the days beforehand, the extra traffic from "curious" people wouldn't happened, traffic would have moved fine, and organizers could have reviewed the idea afterwards, and made tweaks (I.e. Using a different road the next time). Even if it was a bad idea, it would have been a bad idea that affected almost no one, and no one would have ever spoken another word about it.