The $40 parking ticket that turned me around on downtown

I used to avoid downtown Edmonton like the plague, figured it was all construction and sketchy parking lots. Last month I had to meet someone at the Mercer Building and ate a $40 ticket from a confusing pay station, which pissed me off enough to actually walk around. Now I've been back three times for lunch, hit up that dumpling place on 104th, and realized the whole area is a lot more walkable than I gave it credit for. Am I the only one who wrote off a neighborhood and then got proven wrong, or is downtown still a mess for anyone else?

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ramirez.sage23d ago

Funny how one bad experience can flip your view, but I've had the opposite reaction. I've been downtown a bunch for work and those pay stations are only the start of it, half the sidewalks are still torn up and the parking situation is genuinely brutal. The dumpling place is solid, won't argue that, but one decent lunch spot doesn't make up for the hassle of getting there and finding a spot.