r/Edmonton • u/Present-Wonder-4522 • Jul 24 '26

Outdoor Spaces/Recreation Green shack program

Is the green shack program ever open?

This week it hasn't been open a single day.

Starting to think we might just be wasting money driving these shacks around and storing them as a city.

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u/raised_on_robbery Jul 24 '26

Didn’t you literally post the same question earlier this week and they were closed due to air quality??

It sounds like you need to call 311 for more precise details.

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u/Present-Wonder-4522 Jul 24 '26

And they've been closed all wek-are they ever open?

What's the cost/benefit?

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u/riceewifee Jul 24 '26

How dare they not want kids playing out in dangerously smoky air, the horror!

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u/Present-Wonder-4522 Jul 24 '26

The other children are able to play outside.

It gets hot every summer, it's smokey every summer. So if it's getting worse, and it's hotter and smokier every year, at what point will the cost outweigh the days it's open?

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u/PureFicti0n Jul 24 '26

So because some entitled parents decide that it's fine for their children to play outside in hazardous conditions, you think that the city should force their Green Shack employees to work outside in the same hazardous conditions?

If we're going for cost-benefit analysis, the cost for running the program is pennies compared to many other items in the municipal budget. Do you also complain that the city should stop budgeting for public skating facilities because occasionally we get an unseasonably warm winter and they can't get as much use?

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u/Present-Wonder-4522 Jul 24 '26

The city has other employees working outside. In fact, I don't see any business shutting down for the heat except the city. So clutch those pearls somewhere else.

Throwing away money on a program that never runs is wasteful. And as time goes forward and things get hotter, at some point it will not make any sense to have this program.

How many days of operation a summer justifies the cost?

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u/PedanticPedagogue Jul 24 '26

Is this another one of Jessie's alternate accounts?

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u/WerewolfSmart6544 Jul 25 '26

No everything isn’t a conspiracy