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Post by Shiva on Sept 10, 2003 23:17:33 GMT -5
Shiva: Just read your comments on another thread. I think I owe you an apology! Aww --- shucks No - you don't. It's hard reading what people mean to say without seeing them, or knowing them. Anway - I had fun dueling with you
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Post by SkepticAl on Sept 10, 2003 23:23:29 GMT -5
It's a worthy debate, as are others. But this is still a forum about the fire and I'm sorry I got sidelined on this tangent. Maybe Castanet could keep this site up???
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Post by Guest on Sept 11, 2003 10:44:35 GMT -5
Perhaps, are you going to light the match? or are you saying we should use federal and provincial disaster money for something that was not touched by the fire? Hmmm It really would have been a disaster if the entire city was surrounded by flames and the stupid bridge was stuck in an up position because someone felt the need to float their boat on the other side of the lake.
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Post by Shiva on Sept 11, 2003 11:10:04 GMT -5
It really would have been a disaster if the entire city was surrounded by flames and the stupid bridge was stuck in an up position because someone felt the need to float their boat on the other side of the lake. Wow! Never thought of that! Imagine, all that fire, actually getting around the entire city and a boat allowed to go under the bridge, and the lift-span sticks, and it can't be lowered - a horrible thought. Or what if a plane can't land at the airport, and it's Air Canada, and thinking it's the runway in Vernon, crashes into the bridge and then a meteor hits Reids Corner and Highway 97, and a eartquake forces Black mountain and all of Joe Rich to slide onto Highway 33 - yep we'd be in trouble alright! Better build a new bridge, new highways, a anti-meteor dome over the city, and emergency tunnels leading out in six different directions. If you don't like the way things are here, there are three ways out of the city, and a bus that leaves twice a day. Sheesh!
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Post by Guest on Sept 11, 2003 15:47:44 GMT -5
Wow! Never thought of that! Imagine, all that fire, actually getting around the entire city and a boat allowed to go under the bridge, and the lift-span sticks, and it can't be lowered - a horrible thought. Or what if a plane can't land at the airport, and it's Air Canada, and thinking it's the runway in Vernon, crashes into the bridge and then a meteor hits Reids Corner and Highway 97, and a eartquake forces Black mountain and all of Joe Rich to slide onto Highway 33 - yep we'd be in trouble alright! Better build a new bridge, new highways, a anti-meteor dome over the city, and emergency tunnels leading out in six different directions. If you don't like the way things are here, there are three ways out of the city, and a bus that leaves twice a day. Sheesh! I'll try not to laugh when you have a stroke and die in an ambulance stuck in the congestion trying to cross the bridge. BTW, your avatar is willy willy scawey.
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Post by Shiva on Sept 11, 2003 16:17:47 GMT -5
I'll try not to laugh when you have a stroke and die in an ambulance stuck in the congestion trying to cross the bridge. BTW, your avatar is willy willy scawey. Just so you go away with something useful in that excuse for a melon atop your shoulders, a single lane each way is set allowing emergency services their own lane when they radio ahead. It's faster than you can say "what was that that flew over my head - a plane, a bird, super Shiva?" Actually, none of those, it's just reality passing you by. Zoooom. You should have a permit to use that keyboard. Sheesh!
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Post by spend it right on Sept 11, 2003 18:45:54 GMT -5
Ely: So put twenty lanes across the lake and see where else the EM vehicles will be bogged down. Some argument!
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Post by spend it right on Sept 11, 2003 18:51:50 GMT -5
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Post by Shiva on Sept 11, 2003 18:55:51 GMT -5
My opinion on a new bridge is well-known to local editorial readers: I say let the old bridge rot and be abandoned. Those that choose to live cheaply on the Westside can then either run a ferrry, row a boat, swim, or find employment elsewhere. Kelowna Daily Courier - September 25th, 2002 Page A11. ;D
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Post by JJP on Sept 13, 2003 15:39:39 GMT -5
Shiva, you are hilarious. Thanks for the chuckles. You do have a heart and you love the Okanagan. Good for you for sticking up for the Westside. I was appalled to read that even a few Kelowna residents think they are better because they live on that side of the bridge. There are "beautifully manicured" as well as run-down areas of every town. Kelowna is not immune to this. We all need to walk a few miles in someone else's shoes. This applies wherever we live, whether we were evacuated or not. I hope the next time I bring my money into Kelowna from elsewhere in BC while staying at my place on the Westside, I don't run into Skeptical and his supporters. I might just choose to keep my business on the Westside.
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Post by SkepticAl on Sept 14, 2003 3:50:08 GMT -5
Quote: I hope the next time I bring my money into Kelowna from elsewhere in BC while staying at my place on the Westside, I don't run into Skeptical and his supporters. I might just choose to keep my business on the Westside. Ya right! Are you planning on bringing in lots of business to Kelowna? Maybe send another thousand or so motor vehicles per hour our way? If you open your eyes while you drive you will perhaps notice that most of Highway 97 is two-lane. Why should the rest of us taxpayers pay for your convenience?
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Post by Shiva on Sept 14, 2003 10:12:21 GMT -5
To which you said...
To which I say:
To quote a newspaper article from almost a year ago to the day (OK 354 days then!) "Let's sink the floating bridge" ... Sink the d**n bridge, I say, Kelowna would be better off without it!" Now thems fight'n words - fer the revenoors 'round these here parts. You say you dont' want the "rest of us taxpayers pay for" others conveniencesa - are you willing to pay higher taxes to go without a bridge?
I've shown it before, but here's something to think about. Tourism in the Regional District, Kelowna included in these figures, leaves behind some 800 - 900 million dollars. A per cent of that ends in the hands of corporate head offices back east, government coffers in Ottawa and Victoria, and wages stay here, except of course, for the income taxes paid on those meger, usually temporary part-time, seasonal minimum wage earners. So the govenments make a swack of money off what the valley draws here - including the two local main governments, City of Kelowna and CORD.
For the two local govs, the ecconomic spin-off in the way of business taxes, levies, including construction of more tourism businesses, local taxes, housing and such fees is quite generous. Taking out the bridge is taking out a lot of tourism meaning a lot of money goes elsewhere. To maintain the service levels you're accustom to, property taxes would about tripple - R U ready for that? And that's before the Liberals continue along with their downloading of costs and increased taxes.
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Post by Shiva on Sept 14, 2003 10:14:46 GMT -5
BTW, your avatar is willy willy scawey. Does your avatar represent what's between your ears - or not?
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