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

[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'.