Pages: B4
Publication date: Jan 31, 2004
ProQuest document ID: 253110729
After-hours clubs attract young people who create havoc and have "no positive business impact on downtown," Jim Taylor of the Downtown Business Association said this week. Here's what you had to say about his remarks:
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- I agree wholeheartedly with Taylor. Shut the clubs down earlier than 3 a.m. Shut them down at 1 a.m. These kids should be at home, not out all night creating havoc.
I also agree that these (all-night) clubs should be shut down completely and classier establishments opened. Revitalize downtown and turn it into a positive place where people (who actually spend money) want to be. Vancouver and Calgary are alive at night in the downtown core. Not Edmonton. Too many negative things happen after hours. I work downtown, but will not come back after 6 at night as it's too dangerous.
-- S. Patzer
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- Interesting that Jim Taylor talks openly about reviving downtown. What is he intending to revive it with? Approved businesses that open and close when told to and only those people within a certain age group? Get a life -- if downtown is to ever revive itself then there cannot be restrictions on age and type of business.
-- D. Gahan
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- I can't believe how backwoods Edmonton is with its current closing hours. I immigrated from New Zealand where most night clubs and bars in many cities have 24-hour licences. This does not mean bars all open 24 hours -- they have varying closing times depending upon their customers, from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. No wonder there have been riots in Edmonton: What's more illogical than turning all the bar patrons out on the street at one time? Or giving kids nowhere to go late at night but dance clubs or the streets? Rather than regulation, what is needed is deregulation. Let the bars decide when they want to close. Let the patrons drink all night if they want -- better to fall asleep in a bar than cause trouble on the streets.
-- M.H.
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- It's bad enough that this backwards city has basically put an end to all raves by implementing ridiculous bylaws, but to expect to be able to crush the last remaining strains of this culture by closing the all-night dance clubs is ridiculous. If Taylor thinks that closing the clubs at 3 a.m. (thereby forcing them out of business) is going to stop the teens from disturbing their yuppie- filled dreams of our depressingly dead downtown, he's mistaken. These teens will find underground places to party, they'll still be causing problems, but without a controlled environment to do it in.
-- B.M.
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- I agree with Mr. Taylor 100 per cent. I believe that a 3 a.m. closing time is reasonable and fair. There is no good reason for teens to be hanging out in the downtown core until the break of dawn. After all, they are teens. I assume most are still in school.
-- E. Pasch
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- Maybe Mr. Taylor should concentrate more on trying to salvage Edmonton's abysmal and pathetic downtown core (rather) than bashing the late-night activities of the city's youth. What a joke. I am continually embarrassed to live in this city that has a ghostly dead downtown and an unacceptable transit system. I hide my head in shame when I go to Calgary and wonder how many decades, if not centuries, it will take for us to catch up. And it was older people, not the youth, who created that mess.
-- J. Hendrick
- I agree wholeheartedly with Taylor. Shut the clubs down earlier than 3 a.m. Shut them down at 1 a.m. These kids should be at home, not out all night creating havoc.
I also agree that these (all-night) clubs should be shut down completely and classier establishments opened. Revitalize downtown and turn it into a positive place where people (who actually spend money) want to be. Vancouver and Calgary are alive at night in the downtown core. Not Edmonton. Too many negative things happen after hours. I work downtown, but will not come back after 6 at night as it's too dangerous.
-- S. Patzer
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- Interesting that Jim Taylor talks openly about reviving downtown. What is he intending to revive it with? Approved businesses that open and close when told to and only those people within a certain age group? Get a life -- if downtown is to ever revive itself then there cannot be restrictions on age and type of business.
-- D. Gahan
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- I can't believe how backwoods Edmonton is with its current closing hours. I immigrated from New Zealand where most night clubs and bars in many cities have 24-hour licences. This does not mean bars all open 24 hours -- they have varying closing times depending upon their customers, from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. No wonder there have been riots in Edmonton: What's more illogical than turning all the bar patrons out on the street at one time? Or giving kids nowhere to go late at night but dance clubs or the streets? Rather than regulation, what is needed is deregulation. Let the bars decide when they want to close. Let the patrons drink all night if they want -- better to fall asleep in a bar than cause trouble on the streets.
-- M.H.
- - -
- It's bad enough that this backwards city has basically put an end to all raves by implementing ridiculous bylaws, but to expect to be able to crush the last remaining strains of this culture by closing the all-night dance clubs is ridiculous. If Taylor thinks that closing the clubs at 3 a.m. (thereby forcing them out of business) is going to stop the teens from disturbing their yuppie- filled dreams of our depressingly dead downtown, he's mistaken. These teens will find underground places to party, they'll still be causing problems, but without a controlled environment to do it in.
-- B.M.
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- I agree with Mr. Taylor 100 per cent. I believe that a 3 a.m. closing time is reasonable and fair. There is no good reason for teens to be hanging out in the downtown core until the break of dawn. After all, they are teens. I assume most are still in school.
-- E. Pasch
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- Maybe Mr. Taylor should concentrate more on trying to salvage Edmonton's abysmal and pathetic downtown core (rather) than bashing the late-night activities of the city's youth. What a joke. I am continually embarrassed to live in this city that has a ghostly dead downtown and an unacceptable transit system. I hide my head in shame when I go to Calgary and wonder how many decades, if not centuries, it will take for us to catch up. And it was older people, not the youth, who created that mess.
-- J. Hendrick
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