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Originally Posted by ssiguy
Hey guys, I'm coming to London next week for 3 days as I'm visiting my sister who lives in Wardsville. I'll just be exploring my old hometown and seeing what's new. Obviously I'll be hitting downtown, RR, and Wortley but what about other areas. Is OEV worth the walk or would I become too depresses? What about SOHO, is it really just a name or are there some interesting areas? Also what about Blackfriars, I understand it's starting to develop?
Maybe a get together is in order but I'm only there next Tues afternoon to Friday night.
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Get ready for traffic frustration. Not sure how long since you've been back, but 100 Kellogg would be worth a look. While over there, go across the road and check out the site of the Woodman Ave explosion and see the great job they did at replacing those 4 homes. Dundas basically from Beal to Rectory is pretty depressing with homelessness, same as the corner of Adelaide and Queens in the old Info-Tech building.
Definitely check out the Adelaide underpass, this is probably the biggest change a former Londoner would appreciate. Now when approaching from either direction and you see a train across the road, you don't automatically swear at it.
Based on your past comments, a visit to King and Clarence so you can see what 195 Dundas is. SOHO is a work in progress but it would be worth a drive by just to see what they have done in a pretty short time at the hospital site.
Lots of new as well as familiar restaurants and watering holes on RR.
For driving, remember that Wellington is one lane each way in the south end as well as approaching the river and is closed at Horton into downtown. York is closed between Wellington and Clarence. Highbury is one lane each way north of Dundas to north of Oxford, and Oxford is the same from east of Second through to west of Mornington. And Rectory is closed at the tracks by the fairgrounds, as is Florence east of Egerton. And Dundas is one lane each way east of First if you are venturing that far east.
I'm leaving tonight for vacation, so have fun if some folks decide meet for drinks or something
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