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Originally Posted by roryn1
I know yall mean well about how we try to be a winter city, but we really suck at it and probably always will. I have more of an urge to visit Iceland or Banff for their winter activities than I will ever Winnipeg, Edmonton, or Saskatoon - forever until the end of the earth. Our weather here is very very cold compared to most nice winter cities - we are beyond a winter city this place is hell frozen over for a guaranteed 4 months of the year during a bad winter - and people don’t want to live somewhere that they have to go out into that for a potential 8 months of the year.
It’s not a nice try for me to make Saskatoon look bad / our city has been experiencing out migration to other cities for almost a decade now. The only growth is from other countries because no one wants to live in such a cold place. We need to adapt better with skywalks/tunnels - coming from a former resident of downtown Winnipeg, and living in BC for the winter because life is too short to weather through too many more prairie winters.
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I'm not interested in your rant, but I have to say that I think skywalks/tunnels/pedways etc. are a fantastically bad idea. Saskatoon's downtown is too small and spread out for that to be a realistic option. For example, if River Landing included pedways to the rest of the core, what would they even connect to? The density isn't here to do what you're proposing on a meaningful scale (not to mention the lack of local demand, political interest, resources to start digging tunnels lol, etc. etc. etc.).