Western Expresso - Page 104

Cyro · #**2061** Posted **Mar 14, 2014, 8:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Yeah, there are several hurdles and this one is the biggest. It's possible that the owners might not be persuaded to back down from the contract. But it's certainly worth exploring... It's not as though the Portage and Main concourses are all of a sudden going to become devoid of people if you can cross at street level...

That's 2 thumbs up from posters on the intersection/space mission metaphor...still laughing..

I agree, hopefully they can be persuaded to allow the above ground traffic and the opening of the barriers and convinced business will not die off...

If not, and the contract is not renegotiated, and lasts another 40 years we''ll be sending manned space missions to the moons of Jupiter before the subject is brought up again. I'd say Uranus but I think that's farther off..

alittle1 · #**2062** Posted **Mar 20, 2014, 4:14 PM**

Can someone explain the meaning of this traffic sign?

Is this a place you go to, to 'chill out' if traffic gets the better of you.

cllew · #**2063** Posted **Mar 20, 2014, 6:41 PM**

I would take it to mean a speed bump area or traffic circle area coming up. Don't think I have ever seen a sign like that in Winnipeg though.

Cyro · #**2064** Posted **Mar 20, 2014, 7:47 PM**

I've become calm just reading the sign.

bomberjet · #**2065** Posted **Mar 20, 2014, 9:23 PM**

There are signs out there in Winnipeg stating "Traffic calmed neighbourhood". With some kind of a little house or something.

Cyro · #**2066** Posted **Mar 20, 2014, 9:37 PM**

Haven't seen any yet, but I feel calmer just knowing their out their...

bomberjet · #**2067** Posted **Mar 20, 2014, 9:59 PM**

That's the one!

vid · #**2068** Posted **Mar 24, 2014, 12:58 AM**

The black and white sign is probably in Ontario. We love using white signs with loads of black text to represent information on roads here. To hell with pictograms, we say.

alittle1 · #**2069** Posted **Mar 24, 2014, 5:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cyro

Haven't seen any yet, but I feel calmer just knowing their out their...

This is the place that they send people with ROAD R A G E to.

Cyro · #**2070** Posted **Mar 24, 2014, 5:59 PM**

On another note reg: the sign, their is no way that door/window is properly proportioned to to the scale of the home in question? Who designed this home/sign? I'm less calm than I used to be. [/sarcasm]

1ajs · #**2071** Posted **Mar 24, 2014, 6:18 PM**

no idea what the signs telling me

Cyro · #**2072** Posted **Mar 24, 2014, 6:27 PM**

^ It is pretty vague?

1ajs · #**2073** Posted **Mar 25, 2014, 1:01 AM**

random
does anyone have a 4 channel reel to reel collecting dust? or access to one i could do a test with?

alittle1 · #**2074** Posted **Mar 25, 2014, 4:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by 1ajs

random
does anyone have a 4 channel reel to reel collecting dust? or access to one i could do a test with?

Saw one on Kijiji a few weeks ago $50 - 60 bucks Akai??, I think

Like this one: http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-s...AdIdZ573864481

biguc · #**2075** Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 12:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by Cyro

On another note reg: the sign, their is no way that door/window is properly proportioned to to the scale of the home in question? Who designed this home/sign? I'm less calm than I used to be. [/sarcasm]

It's in one of Winnipeg's many yurt neighborhoods. To answer you question, "who designed this home?": the Mongol Hordes.

Cyro · #**2076** Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 2:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by biguc

It's in one of Winnipeg's many yurt neighborhoods. To answer you question, "who designed this home?": the Mongol Hordes.

This would explain it.

1ajs · #**2077** Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 11:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by alittle1

Saw one on Kijiji a few weeks ago $50 - 60 bucks Akai??, I think

Like this one: http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-s...AdIdZ573864481

thats a 2 channel one kinda useles for what im trying to do

alittle1 · #**2078** Posted **Mar 27, 2014, 4:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by biguc

It's in one of Winnipeg's many yurt neighborhoods. To answer you question, "who designed this home?": the Mongol Hordes.

Are you sure it was a yurt neighbourhood and not the Granola section, the one made up of fruits, nuts and flakes?

vid · #**2079** Posted **Mar 29, 2014, 11:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by 1ajs

no idea what the signs telling me

Don't you have a licence though?

thebasketballgeek · #**2080** Posted **Mar 30, 2014, 1:34 AM**

I have a article on Point Douglas that seems pretty cool on how to revitalize this area even from a person who grew up in poverty from that area. Though I know some downers who will doubt that this project seems like a sucess

A big, bold plan: project aims to transform downtrodden Winnipeg neighbourhood

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bre...253010241.html

Some points that seem far out of reach but possible(hopefully in atleast 50 years) and I want this city to go that direction

What if Point Douglas, and with it Winnipeg, becomes not just a better place to raise kids than it is now, but the best place in all of Canada to do so?

What if we could radically transform the lives and well-being of kids in Point Douglas so the community goes from being what outsiders consider to be a basket case, to being a case study in transformation and regeneration?

What if, in the wake of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that has exposed the horrors inflicted on aboriginal communities in residential schools -- tearing families apart by separating children from their parents -- the true reconciliation we need to embark on as a nation begins with the birth of a new generation of kids whose hallmark isn't their separation from, but their secure attachment to, their families and their neighbourhood?

What if babies conceived this year in Point Douglas -- maybe 500 to 600 if previous years are anything to go by -- not only arrive ready for school in 2020 at age five, but they do so fully secure and steeped in their culture?

What if, when they look out from a baby stroller or from atop Dad's shoulders, Point Douglas kids see a neighbourhood full of vitality and the bustle of urban renewal? (Or in the science of epigenetics, their environment shapes their development so they grow up expressing their potential, not their poverty.)