jschrauwen wrote:I must be blowing hot air or something. NO, people will not come if they have to work on Saturday. You said it yourself, you have to change your work dates to accomodate. A lot of people don't have that luxury.
Simple math here folks,
Sat vs Sun = All businesses and retail are open for business. Therefore, if people aren't going to or coming from work they are going to or coming from shopping. Add all of this together with regular work activities and you have a very congested traffic situation.
Lets through into the mix the cruise/roadtrip which again will have to deal with Sat VS Sun traffic = Not fun again!!!!!.
Well, you can't win either way. Myself, I know what it's like working weekends, cause I worked BOTH Sat and Sun for many years, so I would of been SOL myself. Some people can't come out on Saturday cause they work, some people can't come out Sunday cause they work the next day. There are people that come from some decent distances too. Who's to say people work Sunday but not Saturday? You can't cater to everyone. IMO, there are less people what would be working on Saturday, than people that can't come out cause they have to work the next day. Plus, if we want to do the cruise in the evening, people act like their out late every night and can't handle staying out past their bed time once in a while. This would not be an issue on Saturdays, but unfortunately,
Trevor wrote:Just to bring this to everyone's Attention that if we Have this on the 24th which is a Saturday the curise to no frills in the Falls will be a waste. The No Frills Show is a Sunday thing which is the 25th. So are we going to have this Meet on Sunday the 25th???
we found this out a little late. So we have a cruise on a Saturday night, but people may or may not be available cause their working (as stated in your example), but coulld possibly stay out late, or we have it on Sunday night, when the cruise night on Lundy's lane is happening to give a reason to go there, but no one will want to come cause they have to work in the morning, you can't win
Whatever date, I'm not going to be there. I'm 900km away (Mx-3's waiting back at home). I wont get my first paycheck until that week, and with my 2 months of uneployment and accumulated debt, that needs to be attentend to first, so I wont have money for a plane ticket home for that weekend. But FYI, I want to try to make it for July 8th for the TSS show.
As for traffic, it makes no diff for a Saturday or Sunday anymore, it matters if their construction or not. Personally, I find it busier on Saturdays, cause everything is open, and people are driving everywhere.
jschrauwen wrote:
I agree that the location is very condusive to our venue but believe that it's a royal pain in the but to contend with all of that city traffic to get to it. I know it's too late to change the location and it's unfortunate that those that live so close by to the suggested locales never took the time to make a quick recce to confirm. That said, what has the parks and recreation dept of Mississauge said about our gathering? Have we got their blessing for an organized event? Pretty embarrassing if we get escorted out..
Location shouldn't really matter. It's a meeting location, and the local shouldn't make a difference, cause the meet isn't about the location. The location is just an area to gather. Sure we can find another place, but we'll all care about that when we first pull in than focus on the people and the cars afterwards. I agree food isn't convinient at the current location, but that's the point of suggesting a BBQ. A pool, well, that would just split up the meet-ee's, we want to try to keep everyone together and mingle. Once everyone starts to divide up, people get bored, neglected and leave. If we want to be in an area that prodives other activities, people will wonder off, ruining the point of a meet. If we want to do something as a group, let plan it as a group, not be in an area and *hope* people do their own ways, cause that's not want we want them to do.
This is what, the 8th, 9th meet? If there was an issue, it would of been brought up by now. I'm sure they know about us, cause it was even un the newspaper quite some time ago. We've been there many times, we've never cause any reason for concern. Cops always drive by the meets without any incident or even say a word. As for tradidtion's sake, how do you explain tradition...it's tradidtion, plain and simple.
jschrauwen wrote:
One place that comes to the top of my mind is the Kelso Conservation area. It's in Milton right off..... I mean right off the 401. Parks and recreation controlled, lots of parking, park like setting with hills, a public pool nearby, and food concessions nearby. No city traffic to contend with, easy acces from the east or west, easy to find. Central location for Niagara, London area and the Toronto area, (where the bulk of participants will come from). We have Mr. MX-3.com, (Jeff) who lives there and could probably do a bit of pre-coordination (if required) to local facilities. Added bonus => it's a perfect spot to start the cruise from since it's on the Bruce Trail/Niagara escarpment area = no brainer to me.
Well, this is something you could organize for next year. This year, what the problem is that we organized it as a group. Well, maybe it's all my fault that this year will be a flop. It's my fault that I steped in, when no one else did, and organized all ideas into a single day event in which the majority of the people, who actively provided their input in the proper threads (and not last minute), was happy with what was organized. I did what I could on my part with what I had for information. What needs to be done is next year, a person, 1 person who knows everything, steps in, organizes the 2007 MMM all by themselves. They choose and sets everything in stone, so no one has any input, nothing changes last minute so people can book the day off, and it will cater to everyone, everyone will be happy and it will be the best Mississauga (or whatever city it's moved to) Mazda Meet ever, cause obviously I wasn't able to pull it all together and do it this year. Maybe it's a good thing I wont be there, so I can't be criticized on how bad I organized this event.
(Ignore the typo's, I'm using a friends P3 laptop, the keyboard isn't confortable for me to use)
