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Tell the Mayor what you think
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| Matteus User Info... |  You can email your ideas to: [email protected] - Tue, 25 Aug 2009 4:25pm | ||
| Matteus User Info... | here were some of the suggestions. it seemed as though public pissing was a huge problem. 1. More eateries. Too often I have seen a fight break out or have even seen a person been hit by a car in front of the pizzeria on Douglas. A man once wanted to open a Jamaican patties stand for late night eats but found it impossible to get an operating license and/or find property that he was allowed to operate on. By spreading the areas that people can eat you will lessen the chances that people will get into altercations. 2. Later bar hours. Many people attending the clubs are arriving at 11pm and just getting a good buzz going by the time 2am rolls around and are forced out onto the street to collide with other buzzed patrons. Let people burn themselves out at their own pace. 3am is not a far stretch of the imagination. This will also allow the spreading out of taxi companies already thin resources over a longer period of time. 3. Later bus service. An old suggestion that has long gone unanswered. Just not to UVIC, but rather to stretches of the city in a looped format. The #14 already circles all of Esquimalt, making it possible to walk from many of the bus stops to anywhere in Esquimalt. A similar loop could stretch to from Downtown to UVIC, Royal Oak, oak bay and Gordon head. If the bars stay open later, the buses could run as late as 2am. Try it with the smaller commuter buses and see how it goes. 4. Police on Foot. These officers presence would eliminate the crack dealers and meth heads that loiter in the Yates & Douglas area as well as show leaving bar patrons that there is a presence they should not test. 5. Lay the law down on late night offenders. In the same manner as how the NHL severely punishes fights in the last 5 minutes of a game, altercations and damages done to property should come down hard to deter the temptation to start something. 6. Late night Closure of Broad St. and Government St. Foot traffic only may make it a safer place on foot as well as encourage more patios on these scenic areas. 7. Taxi Depot. An area where taxis can wait for fares rather than drunkards running into the street trying to wave one down. Make the parking in front of Element nightclub a taxi only zone after 10pm? Also, yellow cab taxis are notorious speeders in the downtown core and I have personally seen one pedestrian hit by a yellow cab. - Tue, 25 Aug 2009 4:28pm | ||
| bbjones User Info... | Some interesting comments there. I agree keeping bars open later might help distribute the outflow of drunken idiots, but it will also likely allow more idiots to be drunk later and spread out the resource strapped police force to deal with it. Police on foot won't help eliminate anyting. All it might do is relocate some things, and even then maybe only until the foot patrol moves on. I don't think tougher penalties will stop anything unless they are severe. Drunk people do stupid things, the only way to stop that is to not have so many drunk people near each other. You've mentioned more than once about drunktards running around in the middle of the street. Is this really a problem? I don't see news stories of yet another drunk person run over so what's the problem? I vote for 24 hour bars. That way, there is never a mass exodus and never a huge pile of drunks on the street. Foot patrol can then easily manage the smaller groups of miscreants. - Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:25am | ||
| Doc User Info... | I think that any cab found double parked in front of element should have it's operating liscence revoked for 3-6 months. I work nights in the downtown core as a designated driver and it is nearly impossible to get passed Element north bound on Douglas between 2 and 3 am with all those a-holes stopping in the middle of the street to wait for fares. ~Sure drinking is fun, until you wake up with the clap. Doc - Thu, 27 Aug 2009 1:04pm | ||
| Matteus User Info... | don't tell me! tell the mayor! he's seriously listening! - Fri, 28 Aug 2009 7:29pm | ||
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