01-14-2024, 04:16 PM
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#2201
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: the middle
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My favorite part is that every lane isn’t actually full, as nobody is driving in the middle lane on 14th despite there being four turning lanes coming off 90th.
Envious of the dealer who sells that black SUV. Going to making a killing off this development by the looks of it. .
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01-14-2024, 04:18 PM
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#2202
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SW Calgary
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I like how they somehow think it'll be worse than downtown, despite being nowhere near as dense
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01-14-2024, 05:50 PM
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#2203
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Slava
That’s exactly my issue. I’m against the development, but not just completely ignorant. I felt like the campaign as parkland was disingenuous. No one is lounging around there, or bird watching on playing frisbee on those pieces of land.
But those renderings are just over the top. I just don’t think that kind of thing is necessary because there are other obvious concerns.
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One thing that should make you feel a lot better is that you'll be dead long before this gets built out. When your kids are getting old and want to downsize to a place without stairs they may be able to buy a brand new unit with a nice view in one of the later towers.
Seriously though, they'll build a tower. If it sells well, they'll build another one. If things start to become non-functional and unpleasant and too congested then sales will slow and they won't build any more .
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01-14-2024, 06:17 PM
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#2204
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Perfect, a half finished project with the added benefit that Glenmore Landing is not fixed and just worse because there are two towers built.
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01-14-2024, 07:17 PM
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#2205
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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That rendering is hilarious and reminds me of the group that was against the West LRT and put out renderings showing skateboarder’s graffitiing all over the place.
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01-14-2024, 07:21 PM
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#2206
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Originally Posted by Slava
Perfect, a half finished project with the added benefit that Glenmore Landing is not fixed and just worse because there are two towers built.
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What would 'fix' it for you?
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01-16-2024, 12:21 PM
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#2208
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Loves Teh Chat!
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113k for a city councillor and bellyaching from the public every time you get a 2% increase? Meh. Lots of jobs you could do that pay more than that with less demands and stress.
Edit: it's 120k now - 113k in 2020. Point still stands.
Last edited by Torture; 01-16-2024 at 12:33 PM.
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01-16-2024, 12:33 PM
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#2209
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Torture
113k for a city councillor and bellyaching from the public every time you get a 2% increase? Meh. Lots of jobs you could do that pay more than that with less demands and stress.
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That's basically all politics, at all levels.
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01-16-2024, 12:55 PM
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#2210
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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Originally Posted by Bigtime
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Their pay raises are a drop of mosquito piss in the ocean for all it matters relative to municipal budget and taxes; it's noise. Whether I think our mayor and most of our councillors are rudderless dipsh-ts who make inane and counter-productive decisions doesn't impact that they face the same rising CoL as the rest of us do and should see some increase as the rest of us should (since, y'know, you can't fire them). If you didn't, that's a problem that should be taken up with your employer, not with council.
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01-17-2024, 01:42 PM
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#2211
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No way I would do that job for only $120k a year.
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01-17-2024, 02:15 PM
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#2212
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#1 Goaltender
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They eliminated the exit/entrance to Glenmore Landing in that rendering so I'm guessing they're planning on-street parking instead. No wonder it looks congested.
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01-19-2024, 03:07 PM
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#2213
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Franchise Player
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Did the city quietly rebrand the +15 system to Skywalk at some point recently? I noticed last week that a bunch of the +15 signs have a slightly new look and say +15 Skywalk. I don't recall ever seeing Skywalk before and there are some old signs up still that are just +15.
When did this happen? Am I just not observant enough to have noticed this before?
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01-19-2024, 03:47 PM
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#2214
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: California
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Originally Posted by Burninator
No way I would do that job for only $120k a year.
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Your not counting the bribes
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01-19-2024, 09:16 PM
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#2215
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Did the city quietly rebrand the +15 system to Skywalk at some point recently? I noticed last week that a bunch of the +15 signs have a slightly new look and say +15 Skywalk. I don't recall ever seeing Skywalk before and there are some old signs up still that are just +15.
When did this happen? Am I just not observant enough to have noticed this before?
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Just not observant enough.
Some of them say "+15 Skywalk", some of them say "+15 Walkway".
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01-19-2024, 09:47 PM
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#2216
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Burninator
No way I would do that job for only $120k a year.
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I guess that's the problem - anyone really competent would be taking a big pay cut for a thankless job, but if you're an incompetent grifter with no qualifications it is way better than your other prospects. So guess who we end up with running for office most of the time?
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01-20-2024, 11:58 AM
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#2217
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GGG
Your not counting the bribes
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or the free alarm system.
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01-23-2024, 12:18 PM
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#2219
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Cowtown
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Originally Posted by getbak
My favourite part is how this will somehow lead to every lane of traffic in all directions being completely full.
They put out #### like this and wonder why no one takes them seriously.
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I wanted to remove the traffic based fanaticism that was built into this image and try and visualize what the final product at glenmore landing may look like:
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01-23-2024, 12:21 PM
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#2220
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Don Braid really starting to get into Rick Bell territory with his names for councillors (Tax-Crazies, Sane Six, etc.). What's up with that?
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