"Initially, we were told that Queen Elizabeth Drive would be closed to cars this summer from Somerset to Pretoria Bridge for 'active transport', i.e. cycling and walking. However, I see what the NCC has installed in the middle of the road: picnic tables, park benches, red-chair swings, static games and a cool mist station."
"In other words, they are trying to turn the road into a park. Is this because the beautiful Queen Juliana Park was destroyed in favour of a mammoth and ugly parking garage? Is it because a huge section of the Arboretum was rezoned, without public input or consent, for the new Civic Hospital, cutting down 700 trees in the process?"
"Is it because we were denied the creation of a world-class park at Lansdowne so that it could become a developers' paradise? Is it because the proposed new arena will destroy the green tobogganing hill and the precious little green space remaining at Lansdowne? "
"Take a look at the maps of Centretown and the Glebe---you will see that we only have miniscule parks, none of them large enough for sports, strolling, cycling or community gatherings. We have been robbed of green space in this part of the city. Now the public is expected to be grateful for a stretch of asphalt, with no grass, no trees, no shade, no nature, no beauty whatsoever, and asked to see this as a park. I find this absurd and insulting." Dorothy Speak (The Glebe Report, page 5, September 13 2024.)
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