Friday's letters: Why shutter downtown for Tour of Alberta?

Last Monday, without much notice, streets were suddenly closed, parking temporarily restricted and access in and out of parking garages blockaded. 
Bus routes had been rerouted without a lot of notice and many downtown bus stops had been temporarily abandoned.
Although Edmonton wants to call itself a Festival City and wants to demonstrate that by having a major international event like the Tour of Alberta to show off its downtown core, the city went out of its way to present a ghost town.
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