On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

This video report applies to specific cross-walks in Toronto, care of CBC News in that city. Not sure how signals designed to look similar here in Ottawa are rigged.

Just went live this morning!

Go have a look!

You've seen this sort of rant before.

( If you're willing to subject yourself... )

Still recovering from the news of the federal election results of this past Monday. Plenty of ideas as to where we're going next as a nation, and I'm not sure how good most of them are going to be. Call me one of the "Outmaneuvered Majority" yet again, thanks to First Past the Post rules. In Canada as in the UK, it seems, and my sympathies go out to my UK friendlisters who lost out re: the Alternative Voting referendum.

I'll be taking in a couple of the Jane's Walk tours taking place across Ottawa today and possibly tomorrow as well. Call it deep research for possible future editions of the Street Name History series I've been writing for Spacing Ottawa. Also, for fun's sake. And for exercise as well.

(Not sure whether to take in the "Hidden Bronson" or "East Glebe" tours to start the day off. Annoyingly, they're programmed for the same time slot.)

More as I think of it...

Courtesy of Eric Darwin: a concern about pedestrian safety, focused on street-crossing signals.

I'll let him and those who answered him save me some energy in ranting.

Does anyone in Ottawa reading this know when Greenfield north of Don - out in the general direction of Britannia Bay - was renamed Lorne Greene Way? I'm thinking, based on Pathfinder Maps' coverage of Ottawa that it was somewhen in the 2005-'06 neighbourhood, but not sure. Digging through the City's bylaw books to check at the moment.

The first instalment of actual content in the Street Signs series for Spacing Ottawa went live yesterday!

http://spacingottawa.ca/2010/07/16/street-names-wellington-byward-and-by/

And while I'm promoting Spacing's online content...here's something on the alleyways of Montréal. I can't take credit for it...but I can use it as a springboard to ask about the alleyways of your cities and towns.

Do you have a favourite alleyway?

Some weird things get done to newspaper boxes...



Look closer...

One of those boxes you see at city street corners everywhere, the kind where the electronic guts of a given intersection's traffic signals are stowed away but still easy to reach.

Someone in Victoria had an interesting idea about putting these boxes to more than one use at once, I thought.