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Mayor Charlie Clark joked earlier this month that you could make a reality TV show out of the saga of Ninth Street East in the Nutana neighbourhood.

One wonders, though, who would watch a program with such a predictable ending.

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To the surprise of few who have followed the issue, city hall is once again pursuing a permanent restriction of access from Ninth to the Idylwyld Freeway. For the third time.

The basis for the closure stems from a report into the temporary barrier that will only bolster suspicions of city hall motives here.

Even a pro-closure speaker at city council’s transportation committee questioned the flimsiness of the report, suggesting it needed to include more background information.

The comparison data gathered by the city relates solely to measurements of traffic volume, even though traffic on Ninth has always been well below the city’s threshold of 1,000 daily vehicles for a local street.