Calgary Herald letters, Sept.3 | Calgary Herald

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Re: Bricks to be nixed at Olympic Plaza; Age, situation of the 33,000 blocks makes transferring them too expensive, Aug. 28

I used to be appalled to study that the sponsorship bricks in Olympic Plaza are to be destroyed. My mother, a volunteer and eager supporter in 1988, bought bricks for every of her members of the family, with the understanding they’d stay in place in perpetuity. Thirty-six years isn’t even a lifetime.

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That is an insult to her efforts and her reminiscence.

Linda Anderson Stewart, Twin Butte

$20 value nothing after 36 years

Critically? A letter author on Aug. 29 would really like their brick again that they purchased for $19.88 in 1988.

Inform me one different merchandise that you simply consider you deserve returned that you simply purchased for lower than 20 bucks 36 years in the past.

Rob Butler, Calgary

Freeway design a consider security

Re: Nationwide freeway wants twinning, Aug. 23

The carnage and delays resulting from crashes on the Trans-Canada Freeway by way of Yoho Nationwide Park may be anticipated to proceed indefinitely.

A major contributing issue for the collisions is that drivers go from 4 lanes to 2 lanes, whether or not they’re travelling eastbound or westbound. The system of passing lanes that was put in in 1986 was anticipated to get replaced by 4 lanes when site visitors volumes doubled. That was 33 years in the past — the quantity of site visitors has tripled in that point.

Twinning by way of Banff has seen a fourfold discount in collisions and an 80 per cent discount in wildlife-vehicle collisions.

Assertions by some that merely driving velocity limits and with better consideration will alleviate the issue are usually not actually grounded in actuality.

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John Morrall, Calgary

Who wields the ability on this metropolis?

Just a few phrases of recommendation for the residents who stay close to Glenmore Touchdown upset that the redevelopment plans for the southwest procuring plaza have been “quietly elevated by the builder.”

Builders in Calgary virtually all the time get approval for his or her functions to amend land-use bylaws to permit for larger density. Two instruments that builders use to get round top and density restrictions and land-use bylaws are “bonusing” and “air rights.”

Builders are properly practised in using these instruments and sometimes apply them over sturdy objections from native residents affected by their growth proposals.

This example begs the query, “Why have land-use bylaws within the first place if builders are virtually all the time in a position to make use of these workarounds and exemptions?”

Patrick J Delaney, Calgary

Time for a drastic change

In accordance with the Fraser Institute, previously 15 years Alberta has contributed $244.6 billion to federalism by way of taxes and different funds after receiving some federal returns. Alberta paid greater than 5 instances that of B.C. and Ontario. I actually don’t know learn how to learn the chart appropriately, however all different provinces are within the pink ink and, you guessed it, Quebec is $327.7 billion in good maple leaf fall colors.

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So when does this cash sponge of Quebec begin contributing to Canada as a substitute of being an annual cash pit that we in Alberta must maintain supporting?

One would suppose it’s time they make it on their very own. I’m uninterested in my taxes and equalization funds retaining Quebec afloat.

Gord Peters, Chestermere

Albertans personal our hospitals

Re: Premier threatens ‘take again’ of hospitals, Aug. 28

Take again from whom to present to whom? So far as I can perceive, Albertans have paid for our hospitals with our taxes and they’re ours. So when Premier Danielle Smith talks about taking again our hospitals, I merely don’t perceive what meaning.

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