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Downtown

positive1 said:
A major reason I left a downtown job to an office outside of downtown. My walk every morning was a depressing start to the day. Looks all too familiar.
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The garbage and damaged/poorly maintained infrastructure is one aspect. Passing poor souls that our society doesn't care about (face it, we don't) shouting at the sky or slumped in doorways is way worse. I'll leave it at that.
 
IanO said:
My walk to and from work.
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We live downtown and have for over 5 years, but I only ever walk through downtown when I have to. Most of our forays are to the river valley or the legislature grounds. And as per an earlier comment on the forum (not sure if it was on this thread) I did write to Anne Stevenson about the eyesore on 101/101. My empathy and patience are shot.
 
ADob said:
We live downtown and have for over 5 years, but I only ever walk through downtown when I have to. Most of our forays are to the river valley or the legislature grounds. And as per an earlier comment on the forum (not sure if it was on this thread) I did write to Anne Stevenson about the eyesore on 101/101. My empathy and patience are shot.
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Elections are soon
 
If it's any consolation, the roots of these issues are far more impacted by the provincial and federal governments (housing, income supports, health etc.) Extreme poverty is so deeply entrenched that the municipality couldn't even come close to meaningfully addressing it - and local property taxes shouldn't be expected to shoulder issues that are national in scale. Downtown Edmonton is where people in crisis migrate for help from a massive swath of Canada.

Contacting 311 is one thing. Securing higher leadership that will raise and spend the money for structural change is another.
 
Greenspace said:
Please report to 311 in addition to posting here if you do. There is a permanent enhanced cleaning budget. They are both proactive and reactive. Helping post to 311 will allow them to assign crews but also long term help with deployment to problem areas.
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Cleaning up the mess and mayhem some people cause, which happens throughout much of the city, but is more noticeable downtown is not an easy job. One of the harder parts is it can be quite random.

Things can be fairly good for a number of days and then one day it looks like a hurricane hit. I also noticed an unusual mess worse than usual around where I work yesterday evening. One or a few people can create a big mess.
 
David A said:
I don't think I went exactly where the recent problems were, but just back from my around lunch time walk downtown and it looks fairly clean now.
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Yeah they're pretty good in cleaning things up. Hiregood cleaning around is a great thing since it's both cleaning our downtown and employing people from within our marginalized communities. Not sure if other cities do it but probably the best investment so far in downtown cleanliness. They really do a good job and they're quite visual since I've seen them around multiple times a day.
 
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