Gronk!
Senior Member
Jasper Ave has been reopened between 100 St and 97 St. I'm guessing the reopening was yesterday.
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Edmonchuk
Active Member
It’s looking worse than when it was initially opened. And the broken podium is not fixed. This city is a joke. Wonder how long it’s going to take them to fix the whole stretch of Jasper Avenue..
Edmcowboy11
Senior Member
So I guess the temporary pole is permanent???? All summer and no one could be bothered with removing them???
The_Cat
Senior Member
I hope the power connections are hooked up. Wooden poles don’t belong downtown.
IanO
Superstar
^^same on 109st/Jasper.
IanO
Superstar
What does your mainstreet say about your city?
MacLac
Senior Member
What year was that picture taken? I’m guessing ‘78?
Stevey_G
Active Member
While perhaps not pretty, and having the vibe of a boiler-room city, it still looks a lot better to me than some of the downtown entry thoroughfares around the country. (Cough cough East Hastings).
MacLac
Senior Member
That exact picture reminds me of a Pursuit of Happiness video from the 80’s…when the lead singer is walking down Jasper….heading West in front of the Bubbles car wash…..it looks exactly the same now as it did then…..
The_Cat
Senior Member
Looks pretty recent with the Encore up.
Stevey_G
Active Member
It is recent. Mac was being humorous
I dub thee photo City of Edmonton: Canada’s “Lil Philly”.
IanO
Superstar
Don't insult Philly like that, for it has a far superior public realm than ours.
Stevey_G
Active Member
Ever been?
I’ve got some street views entering their downtown core you’d loveeeee.
IanO
Superstar
Kinda like Gateway BLVD and our hubcap district welcoming folks next to the blocks of gravel where grass should be, with the decorative light poles and flower barrels working their hardest to distract?
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Stevey_G
Active Member
Well to be fair, Edmonton is a fairly young city in comparison and hasn’t experienced the type of wealth that has come in and out and in to Philly.
Lately you’ve been a really harsh critic of the city and that’s fair because it sounds like you have some good ideas on how to improve city living (I was reading about the concrete cleaning discussion from a few months back yesterday).
- but I think it’s important to keep perspective, and to temper the cherry picked photos with an understanding that the city is actually quite amazing and beautiful in many places and ways:
Entering the downtown and valley off the hill at 98th Ave is my hallmark way of showing off the city. Rice Howard Way is rich, beautiful, dense, and active, Moss Pit looked incredible and I was envious not to be there, Coronation park is a beautiful place for a walk, how about the various and countless creeks and hidden gems that feed the valley? I could go on but I’ll become a plodding and pedantic windbag so I’ll stop here.
Point is, you can’t judge an entire city by a couple of blunders or a couple of pictures.