Kelowna new downtown

[janalta]

Winter here is wet, dreary and not much looks good, so maybe take another look in spring when all the scenery brightens up around here.

Will spring make the light posts stop looking like ugly salvaged old railway crossing arms?

[GenuinelyInterested]

I think that the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on those "diagonal flower planters" with the cheapo light show inside would have been much better spent in fixing up potholed roads or providing subsidized housing for the families that live in sheds.

How far can $100,000 go towards "subsidized housing"? $200K won't even buy one apartment in Kelowna.

[Captain Awesome]

Personally, I like them. Looking forward to the rest of Bernard St. makeover.

[Graphite]

I do not like the lights at all, especially the light sabers. I agree the money should have been used somewhere less frivolous.

[Spocky]

How far can $100,000 go towards "subsidized housing"? $200K won't even buy one apartment in Kelowna.

If each light is $14K, then there is a whole lot more than $100K that has been blown for what are arguably the ugliest street lights in the province.

[kibbs]

Will spring make the light posts stop looking like ugly salvaged old railway crossing arms?

thousands more in flowers to hide them

[Graphite]

I thought they might put up screen printed flag things during the off seasons? Probably will be hard though because they are slanted

[Gilchy]

Personally, I like them. Looking forward to the rest of Bernard St. makeover.

Me too!

[Neroicco]

I bet those devious masterminds at City Hall purposely put these light poles in anticipating the unknowing populace would become fixated on them and forget their complaints about the parking changes, business disruption, the whole Interior Health parkade debacle etc etc.

Well played City Hall, but your dastardly scheme is now exposed! People rise up and throw down the evil lightsabre/catapult/clothespeg/birdpoopencouraging/Railwaycrossingarm poles!!

[kibbs]

It seems those light sabers have given some posters the power of sarcasm.giving them the power to fend off honest critique. a ha now we know what the light sabers are for they are sarcasmsabers.

[Joe Public]

Not too difficult to see that Gray is back as we watch out tax dollars vaporize....

[Catri]

Personally, I like them. Looking forward to the rest of Bernard St. makeover.

It's Bernard Avenue. Sorry, it's a pet peeve. It also drives me nuts when people call Lakeshore Road, Lakeshore Drive.

[Gilchy]

Not too difficult to see that Gray is back as we watch out tax dollars vaporize....

Because the downtown refurbishment plans weren't originated under the previous mayor...

[kibbs]

Because the downtown refurbishment plans weren't originated under the previous mayor...

whose bright idea was it too destroy our funky heritage streets and make car and bike transit more difficult.

[dogspoiler]

After driving through it I believe that other than wasting money, narrowing the road, fouling up the parking, and those ugly light poles, it's rather Ho Hum.