Unpopular opinions you have

[peter12]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Pretty much this, though Calgary is growing so fast we need to start developping actual things to do around here. Like maybe a real amusement park? Calaway Park is so awful it makes the Stampede Midway look like Six Flags. Calgary though is pretty much one big suburbia, and it definitely lacks the grit of cities like Montreal and Vancouver (though obviously, it also lacks the riots of those cities)

Haha, you want to build an amusement park.

Outside of Toronto, and Montreal, Calgary is just like any other Canadian (or even American) city. Guess what, kids. We ain't New York.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by Bmuzyka

I wish we had an American electoral system, where we could elect our elected representative and our leader separately. I also wish we could elect Judges, and make them accountable for their prescadent setting decisions

Politicizing the judiciary is a terrible idea. It results in judges who don't make decisions based on justice, but on votes.

[Canada 02]

Nose Hill Park should be fully developed into a world class urban park

[valo403]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Within the context of Calgary 1999 versus Calgary 2009 for instance, Calgary has become more vibrant for sure. But compared to most other major cities, Calgary is still exceptionally boring. No major city should have such a dead downtown after 8pm. After 8 is when the downtown should come to life, not go to sleep.

Every time I visit Calgary it seems that there's a little more life in the core, which has been a pleasant surprise. Hopefully it continues down that path, it sure makes visiting a lot more fun when I don't have to hang out in the suburbs.

[OutOfTheCube]

I really dislike Ryan Gosling. I hate how he looks, how he acts, the sound of his voice. Every time I see him in a movie I want to punch him, and now I actively avoid movies he's in even if everyone loves them (Drive)

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

Nose Hill Park should be fully developed into a world class urban park

This x1000. We had a thread on it a while ago...it's definitely an unpopular opinion we have on the subject.

I'd even be happy if just a portion of it was developed into something more than thistle, wildfires and mosquitoes. As it stands, it's a GD eyesore.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

Nose Hill Park should be fully developed into a world class urban park

We have perhaps the most beautiful inner city park in North America. Fish Creek Park from Macleod Trail to the far west end of it, is spectacular. When you are down there there are areas the make you feel like you are in the BC wilderness. Especially if you are willing to gamble and go down some pretty sketchy paths. I spend at least 10 hours a week down there in the spring/summer mountain biking.

I believe it is the only Provincial Park in Canada that is inside a City.

[Komskies]

Lamb really isn't that great. I can't see why anybody would ever choose lamb when you could choose beef instead (aside from religious/cultural reasons etc.)

[Wronskian]

Murray Edwards is a cheap terrible owner and should relocate the flames to Kansas City

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by Komskies

Lamb really isn't that great. I can't see why anybody would ever choose lamb when you could choose beef instead (aside from religious/cultural reasons etc.)

I love Lamb.

[Canada 02]

Originally Posted by pylon

We have perhaps the most beautiful inner city park in North America. Fish Creek Park from Macleod Trail to the far west end of it, is spectacular. When you are down there there are areas the make you feel like you are in the BC wilderness. Especially if you are willing to gamble and go down some pretty sketchy paths. I spend at least 10 hours a week down there in the spring/summer mountain biking.

I believe it is the only Provincial Park in Canada that is inside a City.

Fish Creek is a protected natural area. When I say develop Nose Hill, I don't mean make another Fish Creek, I mean concrete, pavement, green sod, manicured gardens, plant a few thousand trees, outdoor amphitheater, etc Limited only by an urban planners imagination.

How would this be paid for? Sell 25% of it to a developer to build another suburb. Best land left in the city should go for a gigillion dollars

[valo403]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

Fish Creek is a protected natural area. When I say develop Nose Hill, I don't mean make another Fish Creek, I mean concrete, pavement, green sod, manicured gardens, plant a few thousand trees, outdoor amphitheater, etc Limited only by an urban planners imagination.

How would this be paid for? Sell 25% of it to a developer to build another suburb. Best land left in the city should go for a gigillion dollars

As covered in the other thread on this, that is a horrendous idea. So appropriate for this thread.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

Fish Creek is a protected natural area. When I say develop Nose Hill, I don't mean make another Fish Creek, I mean concrete, pavement, green sod, manicured gardens, plant a few thousand trees, outdoor amphitheater, etc Limited only by an urban planners imagination.

How would this be paid for? Sell 25% of it to a developer to build another suburb. Best land left in the city should go for a gigillion dollars

We already have Princes Island / Eau Claire area to cover that.

Nose Hill Park is too far out of the way for a project like that. Nobody is going to drive up from the deep south to look at a concrete wading pool.... Especially when they have Fish Creek Park as an alternative which is/would still be a vastly superior option.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

Fish Creek is a protected natural area. When I say develop Nose Hill, I don't mean make another Fish Creek, I mean concrete, pavement, green sod, manicured gardens, plant a few thousand trees, outdoor amphitheater, etc Limited only by an urban planners imagination.

How would this be paid for? Sell 25% of it to a developer to build another suburb. Best land left in the city should go for a gigillion dollars

Dude where were you when this debate was raging?

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=120229

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by pylon

Nobody is going to drive up from the deep south to look at a concrete wading pool.... Especially when they have Fish Creek Park as an alternative which is/would still be a vastly superior option.

Right, because things should only get built in the North if they're awesome enough to get used by people from the far south. I'll never use the South hospital, because I never go south of Glenmore Trail, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't have been built.

[miraisoup]

LOTR are horrible movies and they have put me to sleep every time I tried to watch them. I also loathe Game of Thrones.

[SeoulFire]

Originally Posted by valo403

Every time I visit Calgary it seems that there's a little more life in the core, which has been a pleasant surprise. Hopefully it continues down that path, it sure makes visiting a lot more fun when I don't have to hang out in the suburbs.

By 2029 downtown may not be a completely lifeless void.

A few faux-density loving idealists are not going to change this fact.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by SeoulFire

By 2029 downtown may not be a completely lifeless void.

A few faux-density loving idealists are not going to change this fact.

I love the fact that after 10 pm, the core is all but dead. A lot of nights in the summer, I will strap a headlamp on, and go cycling through the core, and through the Eau Claire area after dark. Usually between midnight and around 2 or 3 am. It is almost a post apocalyptic feel. All these massive structures, just sitting there dead.

[gargamel]

Originally Posted by pylon

I love the fact that after 10 pm, the core is all but dead. A lot of nights in the summer, I will strap a headlamp on, and go cycling through the core, and through the Eau Claire area after dark. Usually between midnight and around 2 or 3 am. It is almost a post apocalyptic feel. All these massive structures, just sitting there dead.

I don't think that quote's going on the tourist brochure.

[pylon]

LOL, for sure, but as someone who is absolutely sick of traffic, and the general city BS, it is a neat change of pace to go through there not in a car, but on a bike where all you hear is just here the ominous hum of electrical transformers, or the trickle of the Bow and the crankset on your bike. It is amazing how you can go 5 minutes without seeing a soul in such a normally chaotic place.