11-28-2018, 10:22 AM
(11-28-2018, 09:19 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(11-28-2018, 08:24 AM)jeffster Wrote: The party is on a city owned street. The city has the ability to charge everyone with a by-law infraction(s). The city can enforce by-laws, by keeping the road open to traffic. Waterloo could use dump trucks staggered on that street, to make the party less attractive, then hire off-duty officers to ticket anyone drinking on the street. There are lots of solutions, unsure why the "smart city" can't figure this out.
I'm so tired of this attitude, why not organize a real event. Germans wanted to drink in October, we have Octoberfest, blues fans want to drink and listen to blues, we have bluesfest, jazz fans want to drink and listen to jazz, we have jazzfest, rib and beer fans want to enjoy ribs and beer we have THREE ribfests. Students want to drink on St. Patties day, we have declare martial law and park dump trucks on a street to make it unpleasant day.
I'm so sick of this irrational hate for students. I'm not going to say the current situation is good, but as far as I can tell, it's better than what the vast majority of people seem to want, which is to bully students away from the city. An actual smart city would do it's best to work with people to arrive at a mutually beneficial solution instead of trying to dominate one group.
It's not a hate for students, it's a hate for the curent situation.
You can try to do an organized event, I just don't think it's going to work. If you're a student who's under age, are you going to go? Nope, you can't. Do you want to pay for the price of drinks when you're used to just buying and bringing your own? Nope. Even if you did create a legitimized event, you'd still have a large population of students doing what's going on on Ezra just elsewhere.
No one's advocating bullying students out of the city, but what's going on now doesn't work in any situation.