Calgary still superior
Just watched a ridiculous news report on TV tonight about how Edmontonians and Edmonton mail carriers are being confused by duplicate addresses in different (NW and SW) quadrants of the city. The SW quadrant is only now being developed (Edmonton is mainly a gigantic NW quadrant) and people can't seem to get used to it. Story might still be on the website here (scroll down).
Calgary is also laid out in a quadrant system, though that one is superior for the following reasons:
1. Calgary's quadrants are about equal in size.
2. No one, not even mail carriers, gets confused about NW or SW.
3. If there is confusion, local TV news does not see fit to turn it into a fluff story.
4. People learn really quickly (as I did when I moved to Calgary) to add the quadrant designation (NW, SW, SE, NE) at the end of the street address and to tell all their friends and family to do the same. It's not that hard. Really.
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Now, if only Calgary would get rid of naming (instead of numbering) all its streets. I'm still confused by the random naming of communities and the streets that are named within that community. So someone lives in Mayfair... and that would be where, exactly?
Still, Edmonton did come to the quadrant game a century too late.
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