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Drivesaitl

Drivesaitl

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5 Mins 4 Ftg said:
The entire LRT is a giant waste of money fuelled by an increasingly activist city council. Pretty soon they will ban cars altogether.
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You probably didn't catch me saying this but earlier this summer the gongshow event of municipal longterm planning occurred (again) During construction of Valley line west the archaeologists they have employed(think about that) uncovered several times along route what were former streetcar tracks that were built 100 yrs ago and long since forgotten and ripped out. The irony of this being outstanding beyond words. This is the type of thing that reveals the mockery of civic "planning" and that the shellgame forever is really just taking tax money, spending it all on anything and wanting more and doing the same f***ing things they did 100yrs ago. Unbelievable, except true. The things we had are the things we could use. PROGRESS!

There must be a FARside cartoon about this debacle and if not there should be. New material.
 
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Drivesaitl

Drivesaitl

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5 Mins 4 Ftg said:
The lack of common sense is a prerequisite when it comes to serving on Edmontons city council and planning commissions however.
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Civic councils in present day are often too young, too inexperienced in life, and often too inexperienced in a cities history, fabric, and what its about.

A basic prerequisite of such should be minimum age set higher than it is, that a person should have lived in a city minimum 20yrs, and maybe even that the person intends to reside here beyond the debacle they help create. Person running for civic election should also be a property tax payer. Sorry, that should be blanket rule. That should be rule number 1 that the person making decisions is also a taxpayer. This should be a nonstarter in a mayor particularly, should be required. Getting more creative any bonuses in a council or pay increases should be linked exclusively to the bottomline budgets. Work it just like a corporate firm. No fiscal expediency, no further benefits.

In one lifetime the civic game has gone from electorates voting for older sages with barely anybody under 40-50yrs of age to nobody even being that age. Or hardly. Another aspect in present day is female voters voting exclusively for other females. This has had a notable effect on civic councils. Men will vote for the best candidate or try to. Women will look women first. Not a misogynist stating this, its objectively occurring.

Before anybody rebukes this note that several studies have demonstrated statistical significance in patterns of women voting inordinately for other women. Identity before substance.
 
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joestevens29

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bellagiobob said:
Can hardly wait for the inevitable snowfall, and all the shocked look form the construction companies that are surprised that they didn't have more time to complete their projects, and we have to drive around barriers for the entire winter where no work is done.
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I worked for a road construction company and still have strong ties.

Between the City of Edmonton and their incompetence and Epcor swinging it's big dick around it's generally not the contractors issue for delays.

Last year the Ottwell neighborhood came out months later than it should've. And once it did they didn't have the design for all the micro projects within the job. To add to the issue Epcor refused to come in a timely manner so Park Paving did what they could, but would have to come back after Epcor finally decided to come in and do their upgrades. Ottwell as a whole has been a nightmare for everyone involved

That and apparently this year everyone is full to capacity and can't keep up. Some companies relying on foreign workers as there isn't enough people in Edmonton that actually want to do manual labor

Fourier said:
Edmonton is not the only city that does this I am afraid. I think it is just a fact of life with urban planning. NO common sense when it comes to making big decisions.
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You know it's a gong show when the various divisions of the City start fighting with each other. Just love to see that now it's not just contractors and residents calling the various divisions out.
 
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Drivesaitl

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Jumptheshark said:
He was a tight end at Eastern Arizona U

Slightly strange thing in my world. Due to reason beyond my control..I maybe transferred to Oban, Scotland to take over a operations manager there. This could be fun
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Nice distilleries around there. ;)

Beautiful country and area. Enjoy!

ps i posted this before reading the above. First thing and 2nd thing people think of Oban Scotland.
 
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brentashton

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Jumptheshark said:
He was a tight end at Eastern Arizona U

Slightly strange thing in my world. Due to reason beyond my control..I maybe transferred to Oban, Scotland to take over a operations manager there. This could be fun
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Wut? You lucky bastage.

Drivesaitl said:
Nice distilleries around there. ;)

Beautiful country and area. Enjoy!

ps i posted this before reading the above. First thing and 2nd thing people think of Oban Scotland.
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#Me too
 
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brentashton

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rboomercat90 said:
Sounds like a promotion. What are you complaining about?
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I can only wish my office had a distillery and hotel attached to it when I was working in Edmonton . Now that I think about it, we had the Cecil across the street and the a hotel made famous by Motley Crüe (in their first ever concert outside of Canada, we called it HoJo,Sheraton, Holiday Inn call it what you want) down the alley. I must have lived 400 nights in that place over my career. Had a nice visit with Dusty Hill and Billy G one night in the piano bar, circa 1989. As for the Cecil, had a local rummy spit in my beer one night. Not the same experience.
 
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brentashton said:
I can only wish my office had a distillery and hotel attached to it when I was working in Edmonton . Now that I think about it, we had the Cecil across the street and the a hotel made famous by Motley Crüe (in their first ever concert outside of Canada, we called it HoJo,Sheraton, Holiday Inn call it what you want) down the alley. I must have lived 400 nights in that place over my career. Had a nice visit with Dusty Hill and Billy G one night in the piano bar, circa 1989. As for the Cecil, had a local rummy spit in my beer one night. Not the same experience.
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My first job when I moved back to Edmonton in 1985 was in the Milner Building on 104 street pretty much right in between the Cecil and what was then the Sheraton, I spent a lot of time drinking in that piano bar. As an underager at the time me and my friends appreciated that they never asked for ID, lol.
 
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rboomercat90 said:
My first job when I moved back to Edmonton in 1985 was in the Milner Building on 104 street pretty much right in between the Cecil and what was then the Sheraton, I spent a lot of time drinking in that piano bar. As an underager at the time me and my friends appreciated that they never asked for ID, lol.
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We had a lot of office space in the Milner too. Walked those pedways from Milner, to Standard Life and ATCO Central way too many times.

Just one question, underage when you were there in 1985?
 
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Drivesaitl

Drivesaitl

Finding Hemingway
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Islands in the stream.
brentashton said:
I can only wish my office had a distillery and hotel attached to it when I was working in Edmonton . Now that I think about it, we had the Cecil across the street and the a hotel made famous by Motley Crüe (in their first ever concert outside of Canada, we called it HoJo,Sheraton, Holiday Inn call it what you want) down the alley. I must have lived 400 nights in that place over my career. Had a nice visit with Dusty Hill and Billy G one night in the piano bar, circa 1989. As for the Cecil, had a local rummy spit in my beer one night. Not the same experience.
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Rummy is a word I don't hear everyday. Last time was prohibition. ;)

Favorite memory of the Cecil is in there drinking after work with a big masonry crew and this guy with a cart can be seen opening back alley door, putting all empties in his shoppng cart, loading it up good and proper and going to the other area where they had a bottle return, getting his money, then going back and doing the same thing. 3X. We were all laughing our heads off. The Cecil was paying for its own empties...
Ambitious bugger. He was half cut of course, grinning from ear to ear. We did a pass the hardhat around for him.
 
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