whattheheck said:
it's the SJW who council listens to and admonishes police over. not the senior, pushed on to the lrt track by a loser, after working her job at the university hospital. C'mon. you're conflating the two. be better.
Click to expand...
Maybe, just maybe its not the fault of SJW's that downtown has a lot of social issues, and more the fact that both sides of the political aisle aren't taking any significant steps in proactively and re-actively addressing the growing homelessness population and subsequent increase in addiction and crime. What we are seeing now is the result of decades of inaction and sweeping the problem under the rug (the rug in this case is central Edmonton). If you want a safer cleaner city then do something about it instead of whining in a forum about how you'll never go on transit and only hide far away in the suburbs where the homeless can't get to you.
 
Gronk! said:

Stony Plain Road construction straining business, shop owners say​

Business owners say foot traffic and sales have dropped sharply during years-long Valley Line West LRT project​


Click to expand...
It’s been brutal. The area also has struggled for years. Covid destroyed it with social disorder. Most people I know in glenwood, west jasper place, Crestwood….all walkable to SPR, never go there. Partially due to construction, but mostly due to the death spiral of crime and a lack of good businesses.

Scariest interaction of my life with a knife getting pulled on me with my wife was the Tim Hortons on SPR. My neighbour was jumped and beat to crap there. The temporary shelters they added brought so many issues.

We are decades from SPR recovering…
 
SMayo said:
Maybe, just maybe its not the fault of SJW's that downtown has a lot of social issues, and more the fact that both sides of the political aisle aren't taking any significant steps in proactively and re-actively addressing the growing homelessness population and subsequent increase in addiction and crime. What we are seeing now is the result of decades of inaction and sweeping the problem under the rug (the rug in this case is central Edmonton). If you want a safer cleaner city then do something about it instead of whining in a forum about how you'll never go on transit and only hide far away in the suburbs where the homeless can't get to you.
Click to expand...
Could be inaction. Could also be: new opiates+ enabling + migration of addicts into the city (attracted by support & services). Or could be a bit from column A, a little from column B
 
Yet again Edmonton's time honoured tradition of LRT construction killing of small busineses in the area repeats itself - first downtown in the late 1970's, more recently with the Valley Line East, downtown again, and now this.

We don't ever seem to learn from our mistakes here do we?
 
David A said:
Yet again Edmonton's time honoured tradition of LRT construction killing of small busineses in the area repeats itself - first downtown in the late 1970's, more recently with the Valley Line East, downtown again, and now this.

We don't ever seem to learn from our mistakes here do we?
Click to expand...
What should Edmonton have learned?
 
You must log in or register to post here.

Back
Top