by rstevenson » Thu Sep 22, 2016 2:44 pm
I lived in Edmonton for a whole forgettable year, back in the mid-70s. Probably apocryphal, but I was told that the rush-hour accident rate rose noticably for a few days around the equinoxes, as about half the city drove into the rising Sun in the morning and into the setting Sun in the late afternoon. Nevertheless, I'd take that Sun anytime as opposed to the dark and icey-cold winters of that bleak (in memory) city.
Edmonton, more so than the much older cities in eastern Canada, is very new looking to my eyes, almost disturbingly so. (Its population grew from 90,000 in the 1940s to about 900,000 this year.) My wife and I used to drive downtown once in a while to soothe ourselves by going for a walk near the classic old brick buildings. There were only about 12 of them!
Rob
I lived in Edmonton for a whole forgettable year, back in the mid-70s. Probably apocryphal, but I was told that the rush-hour accident rate rose noticably for a few days around the equinoxes, as about half the city drove into the rising Sun in the morning and into the setting Sun in the late afternoon. Nevertheless, I'd take that Sun anytime as opposed to the dark and icey-cold winters of that bleak (in memory) city.
Edmonton, more so than the much older cities in eastern Canada, is very new looking to my eyes, almost disturbingly so. (Its population grew from 90,000 in the 1940s to about 900,000 this year.) My wife and I used to drive downtown once in a while to soothe ourselves by going for a walk near the classic old brick buildings. There were only about 12 of them!
Rob