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Old Posted Feb 10, 2014, 8:44 PM
Uhuniau Uhuniau is offline
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Originally Posted by Fatty McButterpants View Post
There are many who would argue the Alexandra Bridge is a historical gem. A heritage structure. I say it's ugly and unbefitting for a national capital city. It's a depressing looking structure that conjures up images of harder times.

Not to me, it doesn't. It conjures up a city that was a city then, with a downtown rail station and streetcars and other urban attributes, not a pallid suburb of itself.

And what "befits" a capital city? Ottawa's (and the NCC's) obsession with Prettyism is about 40% of the problem.
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