I'm not sure that the inclusion of Maclean in that crew is helpful for them. But since we're making this a team sport now, perhaps the electorate will care even less about his personal track record.
And Maclean says in the article that everyone else is "leaning left", including Jeromy Farkas. So if Farkas, even the born-again Farkas, is a lefty, that tells you everything that you already know about how Maclean sees the world.
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I am worried this will drive out, or we lose capable councillors when candidates start running with a party. Some people are too dumb they’ll just vote for whatever party name sounds the most conservative.
I'm going to go out of my way to vote for someone not affiliated with a party, just to spite this stupid municipal party crap that the UCP is so desperately trying to push. Also, can't wait to not vote for 'Communities First'; that looks like a rancid cocktail of loud and annoying conservative soap boxers.
I think if he ran I don't see why he wouldn't win, he's probably the most established member of council. He's been a councilor for four terms now. Won last election by land slide. No controversies and he's a conservative in a conservative ward of the City.
I don't see why he wouldn't win again... I mean of all the folk who either identify as conservatives (or seem conservative to me) on council he's one of the few that doesn't seem like a braying moron (I'm looking at you Chu & MacLean). He at least takes thoughtful positions on items (even if I do disagree with the position often).
After spending nearly a quarter of a million dollars on replacements for flattened pedestrian signs, the City of Calgary is reviewing where these signs are placed.
The fluorescent signs were set up around Calgary elementary schools in the last couple of years to alert drivers to crosswalks and school zones. But in that time, more than 130 of the roughly 360 signs that have been put up have been run over or intentionally damaged.
Shocking. Let's see how they survive a full winter before deciding to spend more money on these aids for people who shouldn't be on the road in the first place.
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Shocking. Let's see how they survive a full winter before deciding to spend more money on these aids for people who shouldn't be on the road in the first place.
Shocking. Let's see how they survive a full winter before deciding to spend more money on these aids for people who shouldn't be on the road in the first place.
If they are being hit that suggests they are working. They just need to make them stronger to do more damage to people’s cars. I think as a traffic calming measure they are a good lower cost option Than poured concrete at less critical areas.
The one by my house gets continuously hit.
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If they are being hit that suggests they are working. They just need to make them stronger to do more damage to people’s cars. I think as a traffic calming measure they are a good lower cost option Than poured concrete at less critical areas.
The one by my house gets continuously hit.
Are they getting hit by normal drivers, or oversized vehicles, construction, snow plows etc? Maybe we do need cameras.
But if normal drivers are hitting them, then ya, nails. Enforcement needs to have a punishment aspect.
If they are being hit that suggests they are working.
How? Isn't the goal being to create attentive/safe drivers? If drivers are running over child-sized neon signs near elementary schools that doesn't bode well for non-neon, child-sized actual children, which to me suggests the signs are not working.
Are they getting hit by normal drivers, or oversized vehicles, construction, snow plows etc? Maybe we do need cameras.
But if normal drivers are hitting them, then ya, nails. Enforcement needs to have a punishment aspect.
By my in-laws house, they had a sign at both ends of the school zone on a large street, so plenty of room and they had to remove one of the signs as it kept getting run over and this was in the summer. So more likely idiots, and terrible drivers. Drivers are a cancer to this city.