The fix is in
I took the stairs down because I didn't think it would ever be fixed. What a nice way to start the week!
Another one bites the dust.
That is, another broken item is fixed.
And we will, of course, pretend we had something to do with it.
Yes, after five months (5 of them!) the escalator on the east side of the University LRT station is open again. Man, those frozen pipes must have just obliterated things.
There’s some absolutely, delicious, coincidental timing to this one. I was at a media mixer Friday night and was chatting with a pair of gents from City of Edmonton communications about, among other things, this LRT escalator.
Bam! Monday morning everything is fixed.
Also funny, our table was musing about the fact this could have all been part of secret plans of Active Edmonton and Walkable Edmonton to force people to take the stairs. Those sly so-and-sos and their love of “walking” and “being active.” Give me the moving stairs!
But…it all gets me thinking. Maybe we do like being the ones loudly complaining about broken stuff. Maybe we should follow the lead of those smarter than us and do this kind of thing on a more regular basis.
Of course, it would have to be something that’s been broken for a long time, or that’s been reported and not fixed.
And what are the chances that would continue to happen?
Let us know if this is an idea you’re into.
Escalator Watch Begins (sort of)
This picture is actually from January.
Look, we don’t want to be typecast as the blog that points out stuff that doesn’t seem to get fixed.
(Although others clearly like the idea.)
One day I will take the LRT and not see these awful yellow notices. One day.
But it’s been five months. Five. Months.
And the escalator on the east side of the University LRT Station is still broken.
It made for absolutely jam-packed crushes up the working escalator all school year. At busy points it’s still really annoying.
LRT Station, we want two escalators!
It’s Escalator Watch ’10 – and we’re already at five months…
Do you think the escalator will be fixed by the time the new LRT stations open at Southgate and Century Park. That’s a race to watch!!!
Next time…we may actually ask the ETS what’s up…but we also like just sitting on our high horses and demanding things be in working order…
I peered into the work area months ago. It's still under construction.
Always believe
We did it!
Alright, we, as in the edmontonian or Edmonton as a whole, didn’t do anything. But Commerce Place employees, visitors and just plain everyday Edmontonians can enjoy free and easy access from the city’s premiere street to the building.
It only took forever.
Never forget.
Door Watch will always have a special place in our hearts because it was one of our first features, and one of the first stories that seemed to connect with people who would say to us “Yeah, that door hasn’t been open in a bygone.”
We talk to a lot of old people who use terms like bygone.
Our only complaint was that the door was broken for so long that it had already become lore of unfixable items by the time we hit the scene.
Gee…I wonder if anyone else is being lax in fixing major items around this town…maybe we can get on their case next.
Sadly, when they were trapped inside the boarded up door in 2008 there were 10 of them.
