Archive for the 'johnson street bridge' Category
Monday, March 21st, 2011
If downtown Victoria BC storefronts were teeth, this city would need a new bridge. …Oh, wait. That’s a bad joke (see posts tagged with Johnson Street Bridge)… We are getting a new bridge. But as the following photos will show, what we really need is economic revitalization. This afternoon, I was walking down Fort Street […]
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Tags: economy
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Today our city “leaders” voted to go ahead with a new Johnson Street Bridge project that excludes rail. See this article for skeletal information: Victoria council decides not to include rail as part of the new Johnson Street bridge. See also Ross Crockford’s piece in yesterday’s paper, No need for panic on bridge decision, which […]
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
While I promised myself, for sanity’s sake, to forgo paying attention to city politics, the City of Victoria‘s endorsement last night of a transportation proposal has me back at square one. Meaning what? Meaning I’m scratching my head, wondering what’s in the water around here. The endorsed plan – proposed by BC Transit – would […]
Filed under: johnson street bridge, land_use, street_life, transportation, urbanism, victoria. |
Tags: buses, johnson_street_bridge, rapid_transit, trams
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Brilliant. Maybe the self-styled “chairman of the board” will take a boo. And learn something. Click on image below or here.
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Tags: johnson_street_bridge, xtranormal
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Really, she does. I love this video – political activism at its most poetic and poignant.
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Tags: political_activism, youtube
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Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Social media has penetrated even the most conservative institutions (such as real estate, property development, and municipal politics), and from where I’m sitting right now, it looks as if it’s driving a coffin nail of sorts into what was The Cluetrain‘s seminal insight, markets are conversations. That insight, incidentally, was from 1999. And now those […]
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Tags: cluetrain
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Monday, October 25th, 2010
Tonight I took myself to the Victoria Conference Centre to listen to Sebastien Ricard (of Wilkinson Eyre Architects) and Joost Meyboom (latterly VP of Engineering at Delcan, now at MMM) talk about the proposed New Johnson Street Bridge. Given the scope – more on that in a moment – of the project and what it […]
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Tags: johnson_street_bridge, joost_meyboom, pamela_madoff, sebastien_ricard, wilkinson_eyre_architects
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Friday, August 13th, 2010
Last night I attended PechaKucha Night Victoria (Volume 3), where City of Victoria Councillor Philippe Lucas was supposed to give a presentation about efforts underway to get a permanent covered farmers’ market set up in the city. Lucas’s perky presentation featured a number of holiday snaps taken in exotic locales where people still eat local […]
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Tags: philippe_lucas
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Spent the morning at City Hall, where mayor and council – all but one, namely Councillor Geoff Young – voted in favor of replacing the Johnson Street Bridge. Thank-you, Geoff Young, for throwing some well-placed questions out there, not that it made any difference to your colleagues. Anyway, a few notes: Less than 30 minutes […]
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Tags: geoff_young
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