Archive for February, 2007
Make New York’s Subways Free: Philanthropist
In an article from the New York Sun, (Feb 12 2007) New York Lawyer and environmentalist Theodore Kheel argues that if cars can drive for free, people should ride for free.
Free NYC’s Subways
ANNIE KARNI
The New York Sun
If New Yorkers don’t pay a fee to use the police and fire departments, they should not have [...]
Posted: February 19th, 2007 under Environment, Transit.
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WHY AND HOW CITY POLITICIANS AND THE PUBLIC ARE MISLED BY OFFICIALS
This article by U of Winnipeg professor Christopher Leo’s blog talks about where Winnipeg has gone wrong.
This is the third in a series of articles about how poorly the public interest is represented by many Canadian municipal governments. In a previous entry, I showed how developers are able to bend our representatives to their will [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2007 under Infrastructure, Transit, Urban Sprawl, Urban Studies.
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TRUMail - February 15, 2007
L Occhino writes:
Hi there,
Just thought I’d send a quick email stating I really enjoyed viewing your site. There’s a lot of vital information you have listed. No doubt our city needs some form of new modern transportation. I would love to see an underground subway here…… also, just so you know I recently sent an [...]
Posted: February 15th, 2007 under Transit.
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High Speed Rail turned the Tide and gave Democrats the Senate
Democrats regained control of the U.S. senate in part to independent candidate Gail Parker whose campaign drew 26,000 votes. Parker offered to swing her support behind either the Democratic or Republican Candidate as long as she backed her pet project:High speed rail across Virginia.
Click here See Stephen Colbert talk about the issue - and hear [...]
Posted: February 7th, 2007 under Transit.
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When Downtown Winnipeg Wasn’t Hideous
If you are wondering what Central Park - and other downtown neighbourhoods used to look like, take a gander.
Above: Kennedy Street, 1887
Above: Central Park in 1897
Above: West Gate, 1900
Above: Central Park 1918
Above: Kennedy Street (date unknown)
Above: Riverview in the 1950 Flood
Last Street Car - Sept 19, 1955
Portage and Main looking West
Above: Osborne Street Bridge - [...]
Posted: February 7th, 2007 under Historic Winnipeg.
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Downtown Winnipeg’s mixed-use buildings, 1946
There is a misconception that Winnipeg is not a city of mixed-use buildings, where people reside in apartments and rooms above shops or services. And while Winnipeg has historically been, first and foremost, a city of houses, the city’s faded wealth of mixed-use buildings–the most urban of all building typologies–is either unknown or poorly understood [...]
Posted: February 6th, 2007 under Downtown Revitalization, Heritage Preservation, Mixed Use, Urban Studies.
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Things were better in the ’80s.
The ’80s were a great decade in Winnipeg’s history. No, not the 1980s–an era of wholesale demolitions of historical structures–but the 1880s: an era of unbridled optimism and the erection of a smattering of architectural gems, many of which are unappreciated today.
Recently I was walking through the Exchange District and I happened upon 88 Adelaide [...]
Posted: February 1st, 2007 under Downtown Revitalization, Heritage Preservation.
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