Like Eric Burton said "we gotta get out of this place"

If it's the last thing we ever do. That's the next line of the old Animals song that Sherwood Park makes me think of. If you have read the Sherwood Park News today,there is two tremendously disturbing articles. The first is on the front page about how there is going to be a bit of a traffic problem due to the fact that the 300 car parking lot for the main bus station on Wye Road will be lost due to expansion of the Anthony Henday. WTF? They want people to use public transportation yet they don't provide any parking for people when they use it. Great solutions they provide to solve this 'minor' problem: take another bus there, walk, car pool with someone, or perhaps ride your bike there. Isn't that fucking wonderful. They want you to be green, but they didn't have the forsite to see these problems and do something when the shit hits the fan. Were/are the city planners incompetent or what? If you have been up to the transit station by Home Depot lately, the parking on the road that runs from Boston Pizza to the bus station is ridiculous. The entire mile consists of cars on both sides of the road, making it a fucking goat path. The parking lot at the station holds about a hundred cars and about five hundred are needed. The planning for Sherwood Park has been pathetic,from parking to the brilliant, let's put a traffic light every hundred meters. A FUCKING JOKE! Which leads to the other story. The other headline that makes me want to throw up reads '100,000 people by 2016'. Isn't that great. That's just what Sherwood Park needs: more fucking people! I moved here in 1964 and there was 5,000 people. Soon there will be one hundred thousand people. If that does not make you cringe, I don't know what will. Luckily there is the same two main roads to Edmonton now as there was then, because we wouldn't want to have any traffic problems would we? (By the way Edmonton, thanks for the fucking bridge problem at the beginning of the Sherwood Park Freeway. That little detour is lovely). One hundred thousand people. Great. So let me get this straight: there is no parking, the roads are full all of the time, traffic control consists of a never ending amount of traffic lights and there is no solutions to these problems... but we going to have more people? Brilliant, fucking brilliant! 'We gotta get out of this place If it's the last thing we ever do, We gotta get out of this place Girl, there's a better life for me and you...' The Animals 1965