Seriously? Southwest ring road not a good investment, say Calgary councillors

[Maxt]

Originally posted by rage2


When did Carra get so anti-car?

https://twitter.com/BikeBikeYYC/stat...758720/photo/1

He's been in deep with the bike lobby for quite some time.

[rx7_turbo2]

Ya that shot doesn't look like a setup

Just ran into him by fluke I bet

[btimbit]

Originally posted by rx7_turbo2


As a family we tried it. Drop my wife off at the closest station, she gets to work no issue right?

Wrong. During the winter in particular it got to the point where at least once a week she'd call me with "there hasn't been a train in 45min, there's no announcement as to why and there's 200 people standing in the cold" So I'd back track, pick her up and just drive her to work. Well how many times do you think it took before I just started driving her to work everyday?

Sounds about right. Oh well, our city council likes to think they're progressive. I'm sure they'll think of some alternative to transit for people that like to be on time for work.

Maybe some sort of ring road to alleviate traffic. That sounds like it'd work.

[Sugarphreak]

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[rx7_turbo2]

Originally posted by btimbit
I'm sure they'll think of some alternative to transit for people that like to be on time for work.

Maybe some sort of ring road to alleviate traffic. That sounds like it'd work.

This artsy fartsy, we must live in a green utopia bullshit will one day come to an end. Unfortunately when it does, projects that would have actually helped the city function will cost 10x as much to complete.

[Maxt]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak
I want to see Nenshi pedaling his fat ass to work.

Getting his big head into a helmet might be a problem.
He got his picture taken with Fire Marshall Bill today to.

[schocker]

He can't ride a bike, he just comes in to work on his high horse

[GTS4tw]

Originally posted by rx7_turbo2


This artsy fartsy, we must live in a green utopia bullshit will one day come to an end. Unfortunately when it does, projects that would have actually helped the city function will cost 10x as much to complete.

It will come to an end. But by then there will be no money to fix it, and the problems will be much much worse. It isn't just Calgary, these morons are taking over the continent. Detroit is the perfect example of continuing to spend on absurd self-serving projects until the government is broke. Then, rinse and repeat in all cities until we are all broke, but we will have some nice colors on some cloth, and some twisty pieces of metal. Fuck humanity, mostly hippies.

[CapnCrunch]

Originally posted by GTS4tw


Detroit is the perfect example of continuing to spend on absurd self-serving projects until the government is broke.

I don't think that's even close to what happened in Detroit.

[Cos]

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[avishal26]

Originally posted by Cos
I didnt realize the $5b number included 30 years of maintenance and the Tsuu Tsina deal. Not so bad anymore IMO.

word.. maintenance costs over the 30 years are prbly higher than the initial capital cost.