Frontier | 30m | 8s | Truman | S2

[kora]

I would love to see the city rename some of the prominent streets back to their original names.
4th st sw --> Broadway Street
17th ave sw --> Notre Dame Ave
1st sw --> Scarth Street
9th ave SE --> Atlantic Ave.

Just my two cents, but I find the use of numbers for main corridor streets boring.

I would advocate for new names, rather than historic ones. Or at least a mix.

Redmile Avenue. Scarth sounds too aggressive. Atlantic is weird because we're nowhere close to the Atlantic ocean.

 

[badc0ffee]

I associate Scarth St with Regina. (It's like their version of Stephen Ave)

 

[trtcttc]

If 19th wants to be called Hillhurst they're gonna have to get West Hillhurst to hand it over.

II think the reason businesses use Hillhurst instead of West Hillhurst is people not from the area would think it's the area West of Crowchild, which is also West Hillhurst, as the community is split by a highway.

That's not a bad name, since the commercial area goes from Kensington to 6 Ave NW, where the West Hillhurst Community Association is. The FreshCo is actually on 18A, but as a resident of that neighborhood, I we always refer to it as "that street just before 19" since nobody can keep straight which are the A streets unless we live on them. Also, we call it 5 Ave NW not 6 Ave. (I prefer to think it's our own inner city lingo and not that we're all idiots.) Just yesterday we were calling the area "19-K" but not sure if we have critical mass.

BTW I am surprised and bitter b/c the FreshCo shopping carts need 25c to unlock! I already have to keep a loonie in the car for shopping carts, and haven't seen a quarter in a long time.

I did find that pretty crazy. I'm not sure if that's just a Fresh Co requirement? They are all franchised vs corporately owned like Safeway. They also have gates for entering/exiting, while the Safeway in North Hill and Kensington do not. I imagine cart theft and shoplifting in general would be a bigger concern in those locations.