Cars and shopping centres in Calgary
December 23rd 2009 01:42
It's Christmas time. The shopping centre parking lots are full. Save yourself some bother, and if you are able-bodied, either:
1. avoid the shopping centres totally. Downtown can be easy, especially when most people are at work. Local stores in neighbourhoods are getting scarcer but there are still lots of them.
2. park three or four blocks away. Don't inconvenience the people in the neighbourhood, but there are streets near each of the major malls where you can park.
3. take transit. In fact, the No. 10 bus calls at or near three big malls: Chinook, Market Mall, and SouthCentre, and passes through downtown and also goes near several smaller shopping centres.
4. get dropped off a block away and picked up there when you're done.
I heard on the radio that it was taking 45 minutes to get out of Chinook's parking lot. That's a lot of engines idling for a long time. Don't do it.
Does that make me a Grinch?
1. avoid the shopping centres totally. Downtown can be easy, especially when most people are at work. Local stores in neighbourhoods are getting scarcer but there are still lots of them.
2. park three or four blocks away. Don't inconvenience the people in the neighbourhood, but there are streets near each of the major malls where you can park.
3. take transit. In fact, the No. 10 bus calls at or near three big malls: Chinook, Market Mall, and SouthCentre, and passes through downtown and also goes near several smaller shopping centres.
4. get dropped off a block away and picked up there when you're done.
I heard on the radio that it was taking 45 minutes to get out of Chinook's parking lot. That's a lot of engines idling for a long time. Don't do it.
Does that make me a Grinch?
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