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Quite often, it is simply overblown rhetoric when suggesting some upcoming election will be pivotal.
We all get a bit carried away with our collective importance on occasion and thereby fall into the trap of believing casting our vote will be a moment to indelibly change the future.
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Then, more often than not, once the electoral dust has settled, we find the same bunch of politicians were re-elected, while the same staff fill the top administrative roles they did a few days earlier. Life, in short, trundles along.
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Operators will also be required to add transportation options to “unserved areas” and make an economic contribution by bringing jobs or research services to Calgary.
Companies Lime and Bird both operated e-scooters in Calgary during the city’s two-year pilot program. The city is still running the bid process to select e-scooter operators, but representatives from both groups told council’s transportation committee on Tuesday that they’re in favour of allowing more scooters to cover the cost of reintroducing bikes.
Lime strategic development director Jonathan Hopkins said the model Calgary is proposing will help solve the problem of costly e-bike operations.
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“I think we’ve got to get off this whole notion that 30 years of land supply is enough,” she said. “A larger land supply that we control is really something that future councils will need to consider.”
Mayor Naheed Nenshi was among the four council members who voted against proceeding with the annexation. He said he’s happy that city money won’t be spent on the effort, but he still termed it a “waste of time” for Calgary.
“I have never been convinced that there are benefits to the City of Calgary beyond benefits to this landowner.”
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