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Bad news for those who are sweating out the hottest week so far this year in Ottawa: Sweet, slippery salvation in a street-sized waterslide will have to wait until next summer.
American company Slide the City proposed last week to bring its 300-metre slip ‘n’ slide to the capital on Aug. 1 and 2, but organizers and the city’s event planning department were unable to find a suitably hilly location.
Delores MacAdam, manager of the city’s event central department, said the city met with organizers Tuesday and agreed to continue discussions this fall about next year’s edition of Slide the City.
“We want to work with them,” MacAdam said last week. “I think it would be a great event.”
Organizers with the Utah-based company had suggested Carling Avenue, but the city couldn’t approve any closure that would block the emergency route for The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus. The city countered by offering St. Joseph Boulevard, site of the annual Orléans Soap Box Derby, but it didn’t meet organizers’ needs.
The city has to consider a number of factors, including traffic patterns, truck and emergency routes and transit, MacAdam said.
Canadian sites for Slide the City events in 2015 include Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver Island, Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg and Saskatoon, the company says.
Wristbands for Montreal’s Aug. 14 event range from $29 to $40 and entitle buyers to three trips down the slide with an inflatable tube.
afeibel@ottawacitizen.com
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American company Slide the City proposed last week to bring its 300-metre slip ‘n’ slide to the capital on Aug. 1 and 2, but organizers and the city’s event planning department were unable to find a suitably hilly location.
Delores MacAdam, manager of the city’s event central department, said the city met with organizers Tuesday and agreed to continue discussions this fall about next year’s edition of Slide the City.
“We want to work with them,” MacAdam said last week. “I think it would be a great event.”
Organizers with the Utah-based company had suggested Carling Avenue, but the city couldn’t approve any closure that would block the emergency route for The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus. The city countered by offering St. Joseph Boulevard, site of the annual Orléans Soap Box Derby, but it didn’t meet organizers’ needs.
The city has to consider a number of factors, including traffic patterns, truck and emergency routes and transit, MacAdam said.
Canadian sites for Slide the City events in 2015 include Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver Island, Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg and Saskatoon, the company says.
Wristbands for Montreal’s Aug. 14 event range from $29 to $40 and entitle buyers to three trips down the slide with an inflatable tube.
afeibel@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/adamfeibel
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