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I called about the impending shutdown of propane sales at the busy 91st street location. The call back I got was that they were pushing for more parking, instead of propane sales at their busiest Edmonton location. So the four parking spots they would reclaim excuses them sending me to St Albert for my propane refills. I told them that was completely unacceptable considering what they have done with the gas station and parking. I think perhaps we should boycott the 91st street location until they rethink this stupidity.

Hey all -- so I live near Whyte Ave and all summer long I've been hearing this loud and persistent humming noise all day and night coming from around Whyte and 105 street. I've walked around that intersection a few times to try to pinpoint it but it's so hard with all the traffic noise, plus the sound echoes off all the buildings so it's almost impossible to figure out where it's coming from. It sounds mechanical, like maybe a generator or an industrial HVAC unit.

At first I thought it was from the apartment building construction site south of Whyte but that's more or less wrapped up now and the sound is still there. So now I'm wondering instead if it's coming from the rooftop of one of the professional buildings near the Metterra or something. I'm sharing audio of the sound that I took about twenty minutes ago if you're interested. I'm genuinely really curious as to what it is and where it's coming from.

Does anyone else live in the area and hear it too? What do you think it could be? Or am I going nuts?

https://reddit.com/link/1vqkbny/video/eo9nt8x1nvjh1/player

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People say it’s parking or it’s construction or it’s safety, but the real problem with downtown is Edmontonians.

I work downtown. I live close to downtown. I workout downtown. I go to dinner downtown. I go out downtown. I go to movies downtown. I go to shows downtown.

But to hear people talk about the core, you’d think that none of this is possible. You’d think that it’s physically impossible to get to, that there’s literally nowhere to park, and that you won’t make it out alive. And that’s the problem. We keep telling ourselves these untruths and making the real problems worse.

Like, Greta didn’t close because of “construction” or “city council”. I’m sorry, but it didn’t. It closed because people stopped going. It closed because we kept saying “there’s nowhere to park” or some other lame excuse.

And then we complain that there’s nothing to do in the core. That it’s failing. That someone else isn’t doing enough to keep it alive.

And we do go downtown. 18,000 of us, forty-one nights a year, plus playoffs. Rogers Place proves every single one of these excuses is a lie. When there’s a game on, we somehow make it work. We somehow make it there and back.

So the excuses aren’t real. They’re a habit. We’ve decided downtown is a hassle, and now we say it out loud so often that it’s become the reason we don’t go, which is the reason there’s less to go to, which is the reason we say it.

If we want downtown to be better, we have to go downtown. That’s it. Not a plan, not a task force, not a report. Go. Eat there. Shop there. Bring your friends there. Complain about it while you’re standing in it.

Because the version of downtown we keep saying we want is the version we stopped showing up for.

Hey I've been running an art group for the past 7-8 years, after COVID we mostly do virtual art meetups but we are starting to do more in person things. Does anyone know a good place to let people here in Edmonton know about it?

I am tired, applied so many jobs and haven’t had even one interview. Lost all confidence

Listening to CHED radio this morning and the commentator suggested that all the road construction, on almost all major routes, was perhaps an attempt commuters to use bikes rather than cars.

Vitoria Trail has a lane closed on both the north bound and south bound lanes. Here is the thing. I see no work being conducted.

It sounds crazy but when business and closing because customers cannot get to them makes me wonder is there any over all plan for how the construction is staged.

The road network in Edmonton is a frigging mess.