"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000

Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.

bigred75 wrote on Wed, 31 August 2016 08:45

CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 31 August 2016 08:17 Gator21 wrote on Wed, 31 August 2016 01:09 NetBOG wrote on Thu, 18 August 2016 12:43 CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 18 August 2016 10:17 mightyreasoner wrote on Thu, 18 August 2016 10:04 Now if only the City of Edmonton would create some parking garages at Century Park and Clareview and Belvedere to encourage Park and Ride, that would be awesome. I have no idea why they don't do this, and why they think it's a good idea to start charging for these spots too. Ideally, you want as many people taking the train as possible, and for that to happen you need to make that a more attractive option than driving (hopefully by making the train better rather than making driving worse). Ha! You think it's a good idea to build parking at the terminus for the city's light rail system? Good luck. How exactly would that fit in with the city's goal of making driving so difficult its not even worth the effort? Take the bus, pleb. Even considering the possibility will cause two brand new stop lights (for safety) to be put up on your drive to work. The parking price will go up quickly because the city is, once again, grossly overestimating how much their social engineering will actually work. Upwards of 1/3 of people attend from outside of Edmonton, and a lot of people won't take transit because of security (real and imagined) issues. http://globalnews.ca/news/2910981/big-jump-in-paid-park-and- ride-stalls-at-edmonton-lrt-stations-starts-sept-1/?sf346756 15=1 I love it. I love it love it love it. This is so brilliant it's almost impossible to believe that Edmonton did it by accident. They've created an artificial supply and demand problem for space in a sprawled out "C" level prairie city. The city administration is finally removing all doubt and confirming that they do not care in the slightest about you or your commute to work. You know, work, that place where a large percentage of voters absolutely need to travel to 200 days a year? That place? Well, the city doesn't care if you get there. The city doesn't care if you drive, they don't care if you cycle, they don't care if you walk, they don't care if you take transit. Hell, the don't care if you work. You, my fellow citizen, are nothing more than a little mobile piggy bank for them to extract money from. So, in order to promote use of the public transit in Edmonton, ETS/City of Edmonton has made the cost of a monthly bus pass plus a parking pass the cost of what it would be for most people to just pay to park at work. Is that right? Bus pass is $92, parking $50, total $142. Parking at the UofA for a month is $140. So I save $2? Where is the incentive here to take mass transit? One of the benefits was/is a park and ride location. Free parking, get a bus pass, save the environment, keep ETS employees working or increase employment. Yet the YEG Council wants to gouge people just trying to do the right and cost effective thing. Yeesh.

Guess you save on gas, insurance (can say you don't use your car for commute to save), and car maintenance :)

I agree with you both though, the lack of parking around stations is a joke, it was already a joke, but now it's a bigger one with all the free spots taken away. Wonder if park and rides they make will just be paid parking off the bat

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000

Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.

Oilers Goal Differential
17/18: 234 GF / 263 GA (-29)
18/19: 232 GF / 274 GA (-42)
19/20 (82 game pace): 257 GF / 254 GA (+3) in 64 games
2021 (82 game pace):269 GF / 235 GA (+34) after 38 games

[Updated on: Thu, 01 September 2016 09:23]

Oilers Goal Differential
17/18: 234 GF / 263 GA (-29)
18/19: 232 GF / 274 GA (-42)
19/20 (82 game pace): 257 GF / 254 GA (+3) in 64 games
2021 (82 game pace):269 GF / 235 GA (+34) after 38 games

So, CBC reported that apparently street parking will continued to be charged downtown during Rogers Place event nights to go along with the rates at City Hall and the Library parkades going up. I get that they need to draw on new revenue streams to help pay for the arena, but this is totally lame.

P.S.: At the very least, they better be increasing the time limit on nights with games/events to 3+ hours. As funny as it would be to see a ton of fans rushing out of the arena at the 2nd intermission to put more time into the toll post for parking, it would be incredibly annoying if you were one of those fans.

[Updated on: Fri, 19 August 2016 20:25]

"There's no greater springboard to development than failure." - Craig MacTavish, April 13/15.

5-14-6-1

"Sabres think the suck is their ally? They merely adopted the suck. The Oilers were born in it...molded by it."

Ragnarok73 wrote on Fri, 19 August 2016 20:22

So, CBC reported that apparently street parking will continued to be charged downtown during Rogers Place event nights to go along with the rates at City Hall and the Library parkades going up. I get that they need to draw on new revenue streams to help pay for the arena, but this is totally lame. P.S.: At the very least, they better be increasing the time limit on nights with games/events to 3+ hours. As funny as it would be to see a ton of fans rushing out of the arena at the 2nd intermission to put more time into the toll post for parking, it would be incredibly annoying if you were one of those fans.

It would be fairly naive to believe that they were going to do anything but raise all the parking rates downtown for the new rink. Day rates are probably going to go up, and night rates were definitely going to spike. It was an inevitability.

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#FireBobbyNicks

Adam wrote on Sun, 21 August 2016 23:18

Ragnarok73 wrote on Fri, 19 August 2016 20:22 So, CBC reported that apparently street parking will continued to be charged downtown during Rogers Place event nights to go along with the rates at City Hall and the Library parkades going up. I get that they need to draw on new revenue streams to help pay for the arena, but this is totally lame. P.S.: At the very least, they better be increasing the time limit on nights with games/events to 3+ hours. As funny as it would be to see a ton of fans rushing out of the arena at the 2nd intermission to put more time into the toll post for parking, it would be incredibly annoying if you were one of those fans. It would be fairly naive to believe that they were going to do anything but raise all the parking rates downtown for the new rink. Day rates are probably going to go up, and night rates were definitely going to spike. It was an inevitability.

If it costs less to use an Impark lot than to use street meters, you will know that things have gone totally nuts.

"There's no greater springboard to development than failure." - Craig MacTavish, April 13/15.

5-14-6-1

"Sabres think the suck is their ally? They merely adopted the suck. The Oilers were born in it...molded by it."

Ragnarok73 wrote on Mon, 22 August 2016 12:44

Adam wrote on Sun, 21 August 2016 23:18 Ragnarok73 wrote on Fri, 19 August 2016 20:22 So, CBC reported that apparently street parking will continued to be charged downtown during Rogers Place event nights to go along with the rates at City Hall and the Library parkades going up. I get that they need to draw on new revenue streams to help pay for the arena, but this is totally lame. P.S.: At the very least, they better be increasing the time limit on nights with games/events to 3+ hours. As funny as it would be to see a ton of fans rushing out of the arena at the 2nd intermission to put more time into the toll post for parking, it would be incredibly annoying if you were one of those fans. It would be fairly naive to believe that they were going to do anything but raise all the parking rates downtown for the new rink. Day rates are probably going to go up, and night rates were definitely going to spike. It was an inevitability. If it costs less to use an Impark lot than to use street meters, you will know that things have gone totally nuts.

Don't worry about that...Impark will never let that happen! I expect they're going to raise rates during events too...

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#FireBobbyNicks

Wow, that looks fantastic.
Now we just need an on-ice product to match

Outside looking awesome too:



Lots more pics here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=122355& page=430

[Updated on: Mon, 29 August 2016 15:49]

"Bah Gawd! Would somebody stop the damn draft!"

- Jim Ross calling the NHL Draft Lotto 2015 as the Oilers win

Derek Van Diest @DerekVanDiest
Connor McDavid first player to step out in the ice. @EdmontonOilers

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000

"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireBobbyNicks

"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireBobbyNicks

"Bah Gawd! Would somebody stop the damn draft!"

- Jim Ross calling the NHL Draft Lotto 2015 as the Oilers win

Illegitimi non carborundum.

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher, smarter, faster and better looking than most people.

Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.

Illegitimi non carborundum.

Is the outside supposed to look like that? To me it looks like the building is wrapped (not very nicely) in aluminum foil.

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000

Clean house or bust

Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.

Illegitimi non carborundum.

"Bah Gawd! Would somebody stop the damn draft!"

- Jim Ross calling the NHL Draft Lotto 2015 as the Oilers win

Renaissance 2015