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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
What about the millions contributed to the Flames Foundation and all of the other charitable and other public causes CSEC supports?
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A few others have already refuted this, and I've already said this once, but apparently it can't be repeated enough:
whatever money the Flames directly give is offset by their sweetheart arena mgmt deal. The money raised from fans would decrease to some extent, but lots would be redirected to other charities and charitable experiences.
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Originally Posted by The Boy Wonder
I happen to know first hand that the numbers are fudged. U of C students were sent out during the trial period to gauge cyclist traffic to see if we needed lanes and they were told that instead of doing an analysis of how many people in a set time period, to not complete their reports until they hit x number of riders.
Also the counter counts each wheel of the bike as a rider and a “tick” so each downtown rider who goes home the same way counts as 4 individual bike lane users per day.
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False. Unless there are a lot of unicyclists out there, it doesn't take a math major to refute your BS. You do know that most of the counters display the numbers right in front of you on the pathway? Congratulations on demonstrating that you are willing to believe a BS story without any critical thought.
All that said, I'm sure the counters are capable of some errors, just like anything else.
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Hey, cool. Yesterday there were 571 bikes on 8th ave SW. near my work. This is probably a low time of year of course. Although bike couriers downtown maybe bump the number a bit - that's their travel route.
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Don't be so sure, it was probably actually 285 bicycles and a unicycle
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I totally get the "no money for private business" argument. On a non-monetary aspect, whoever, not too many other private businesses, however, have as much community interest. There's no site like CP for Suncor. Not much debate about who the next CFO will be for Shaw.
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Well, now I'm convinced.
