![]() ![]() For $31.5 million we could have built two schools (Cranston elementary school cost $15.6M) with a military name and mural. We already have Memorial Drive, Memorial Park and the second largest military museum in Canada. Surely, there was a better way we can pay our respects to those who have served our country than an empty plaza. Yet, I rarely see anyone in the plaza despite having passed it hundreds of times. The City of Calgary invested $31.5 million for Poppy Plaza at the busy corner of Memorial Drive and 10th Street NW. I am also not a big fan of creating plazas next to busy streets. Sure there are some communities that have more and some less park space, but there is hardly a shortage of parks in our city. Fewer parks mean more people using the same parks, which would increasing social interaction with neighbours and help make our parks safer. Fewer parks mean more money for equipment in the parks, better pathways and more plantings. In fact, less could be more - fewer parks mean more money to spend on maintenance and renovation of existing parks, making them healthier, more beautiful and more attractive. When it comes to parks, more is not always better. At present, Calgary has 5,200 parks totalling 25,000 acres, which for a population of 1,200,000, means we have 20 acres/1,000 citizens or twice the recommended amount (City of Calgary website). One could also question if there really is a need for more parks anywhere in Calgary, the American National Recreation and Parks Association recommend that a city should have 10 acres of parks for every 1,000 people. Along the way you pass through the 40-acre Lawrey Gardens and Douglas Fir Trail. The west end of downtown already has Shaw Millennium Park, as well as Pumphouse Park and the Bow River Pathway that goes all the way to Edworthy Park. I was surprised recently when Calgary Herald columnist and fiscal conservative Mike Milke in his March 19th column recommended the City of Calgary use the $86 million surplus from 2015 as seed money to create a major park along the Bow River west of Shaw Millennium Park in future new downtown community called West Village. It seems everyone I talk to these days, wants another park or an upgrade in their community. If you've been using KAYAK successfully up until now, try closing your browser and starting again.Calgary is at a crossroads – do we want more or do we want better public spaces? Please send us a message and we'll try to figure out what went wrong. Probably something about the web browser you are using made KAYAK think you are a bot. They tend to try to cram large suitcases in the overhead bin, and they prattle on about celebrities they know while you are trying to watch the movie. ![]() For example, we don't want bots running about trying to book airline tickets. Bots are generally a good thing, but some web pages are for humans only. KAYAK uses bots to search for travel deals. Search engines like Google use robots to build up search results. What is a bot?Ī bot, or robot, or crawler is software that visits web sites and collects data from them without a human present. If you are seeing this page, it means that KAYAK thinks you are a "bot", and the page you were trying to get to is only useful for humans. ![]()
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