Into One More Weekend

[dewline]

It feels like a good ending to this week, as uncertain as things have been from day to day.

1. I got a start on several of the first few articles to come in the Street Names series for Spacing Ottawa. Hopefully, the first actual article with real content will go live within the week, barring miracle or disaster. A research trip out to Kanata saw me actually get pictures of the latter-day pre-Amalgamation street signs of that former city-suburb. Red lettering on white, like the Maple Leaf itself or Kanata's own flag, with which they shared a logo.

(By the by, can anyone help me track down an image of that old flag? Google seems to be having a fit over this one for reasons as yet unclear.)

2. Today, I tried to check my account at Comicspace. And got an odd response: Google was flagging the site as a security threat - "attack page" was the phrase used - to my computer. Anyone else with a Comicspace account getting similar alerts? Any clues as to why?

3. The discussions over my Bank Street Tunnel thoughts have expanded. Some interesting alternatives to go with the ones in play where the discussion started. Looking forward to see how this keeps moving along!

4. Can't think of a fourth item yet. How about you?

Comments

[m-danson.livejournal.com]

You could be like everyone else and complain about the weather.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

You're right. I could do that.

"I refuse to do what's expected of me." - Leslie Charteris

[actsofminortreason.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

The old street signs in Metro Toronto are steadily disappearing too, now; it's a shame. Street signs are one of the most basic methods in which to establish the character of an area. If they'd at least left the logos of the old cities on the signs within the old borders that would be fine, but no-- damnatio memoriae and all that. One day there will never have been a Kanata.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Here's a project for someone in Toronto to take up before it's too late, then: preserve the visuals of what the street signs looked like before the revision of the post-Amalgamation standards for such things.

And if City Hall's willing to be talked into it?

Buy the suckers off of City Hall as they come down. How you keep them preserved for future generations after buying them, I wish I could figure out right now.

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing the street signs when I worked there from 2007 to 2008. IIRC, the foreground color is Maroon, not Red. It's *far* too dark to even be thought of as a "Blood Red."

How on earth could you call *that* color "red"?? Inquiring minds are baffled ...

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Easily. My art skills and knowledge don't go there very often.

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

It's more than just street signs. When I pulled out of the Nepean Sailing Club this afternoon, I took note that the entrance had one of the old 'Citu of Nepean' signs there. I've seen similar in the outskirts of the former Gloucester and Cumberland, too. Sadly, most of the old street markers have been converted.

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

Toronto style streetcars on Bank? I love the idea!

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Well, we used to have them, and if the "branch tunnel" idea doesn't get enough "altitude" in public opinion, it might still be doable.

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

If there's one street in Ottawa that woulkd benefit from a dedicated streetcar line, it's Bank. In fact, I'd make Bank a streetcar/transit only zone from Wellington all the way down to Gladstone.

Stupidest thing Ottawa (and many other towns and cities) ever did was to ditch streetcars in favour of buses. Of course, they were dealing with a consortium of multinationals that 'wanted it that way'.