No Reason to Visit Downtown Edmonton’s Shameful Wasteland

Drove around there this morning. Limited mobility; confusing road signs. No parking to speak of.
A bleak, empty, colourless dump populated by street people waiting for decent folk to come around so they can harass or assault them as the decent types dodge the spit, urine, and excrement.
A library that looks like a huge Russian tank. Empty concert hall and Citadel, the latter’s waterfall long shut off. An art gallery which has only ever had a few world-class exhibitions; its snobby cafe that refused to wait on me and my wife for over 30 minutes a decade ago.
And an inaccessible museum with no public parking, accessible only from paid parking and a long precarious underground tunnel walk from said-tank-library.
And only 2 weeks ago a couple and their kid were assaulted there, the man ending up in hospital.
Sohi’s absurd, desperate campaign to bring people back downtown is a dangerous invitation to one and all, particularly to tourists, families, women and children.
Yup, E-Town is officially deceased. Abandon all hope ye who enter.