General Update/Rumour thread [Urban Ottawa] - Page 146

Norman Bates · #**2901** Posted **Jun 19, 2013, 2:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Well, Statistics Canada seems to call it for 1946 (I'll concede, but my family's contributions didn't start until April, 1947

) to 1965 (which seems late to me, but I guess the numbers don't lie).

I always thought of it beginning 38 weeks after VE Day, so January 28, 1946. And ending 38 weeks after the introduction of pharmaceutical birth control, but I've not been able to track down a confirmable date for Canada. Suffice to say that I was born in 1964 and consider myself a late boomer.

J.OT13 · #**2902** Posted **Jun 19, 2013, 4:58 PM**

I will always refer to the arena out in Kanata as the Palladium or the Corel Centre. Those were the names I grew up with and those names were original and/or represented Ottawa.

citizen j · #**2903** Posted **Jun 19, 2013, 7:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dr.Z

And look how it has cursed Vancouver!

The Shed is much better anyways IMO.

Yes, The Shed is good. Just so long as that doesn't turn into The Tool Shed.

McC · #**2904** Posted **Jun 19, 2013, 7:41 PM**

unless that's what we call the penalty boxes?

J.OT13 · #**2905** Posted **Jun 20, 2013, 4:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by McC

unless that's what we call the penalty boxes?

I like it.

McC · #**2906** Posted **Jun 20, 2013, 4:15 PM**

In an alternate world where this deal had been done a few years back and Dean Brown wasn't such a homer, I can imagine him saying "...and Dany Heatly will sit for two or less in the CT Centre's Tool Shed for another careless high stick"

Capital Shaun · #**2907** Posted **Jun 20, 2013, 6:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by McC

In an alternate world where this deal had been done a few years back and Dean Brown wasn't such a homer, I can imagine him saying "...and Dany Heatly will sit for two or less in the CT Centre's Tool Shed for another careless high stick"

lol, love it

JackBauer24 · #**2908** Posted **Jun 23, 2013, 4:14 PM**

As long as the annoying Canadian Tire couple isn't involved in anything, I frankly don't care what the Palladium is called.

umbria27 · #**2909** Posted **Jun 24, 2013, 3:04 PM**

Don't know if this belongs in this thread but Capital Councillor Chernushenko has an Op Ed on the Complete Streets concept for Main Street.

He's anticipating the backlash from suburban commuters who oppose any reduction in commuting bandwidth. We already saw this play out on Bronson with commuters winning.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/Main+Street+everyone/8567332/story.html

kwoldtimer · #**2910** Posted **Jun 24, 2013, 8:39 PM**

Seems like the perfect time to press ahead with discussion of the Alta Vista Parkway. Between the Main St discussion and that, I wonder how many folks would stroke out?

J.OT13 · #**2911** Posted **Jun 25, 2013, 4:48 PM**

http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/06/25/committee-passes-12m-cost-to-move-buildings

Seriously?

Not a lot of people share my definition of historic building.

teej1984 · #**2912** Posted **Jun 25, 2013, 6:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by J.OT13

http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/06/25/committee-passes-12m-cost-to-move-buildings

Seriously?

Not a lot of people share my definition of historic building.

What a colossal waste of money!!!

What does this even mean??? "The current road alignment doesn't meet safety standards."

Has anyone ever heard of an accident happening here!? Yesh

citizen j · #**2913** Posted **Jun 25, 2013, 8:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by teej1984

What a colossal waste of money!!!

What does this even mean??? "The current road alignment doesn't meet safety standards."

Has anyone ever heard of an accident happening here!? Yesh

It means that the curve in that part of Sussex doesn't allow for people to drive like they're on a "parkway" (cough*highway) or other unobstructed, high-speed thoroughfare and might actually have to slow down and drive according to the physical dictates of the urban street. With this in mind, I wonder how long before the NCC demands the City move the Chateau Laurier hotel because it interferes with a smooth parkway-like sweep of majestic, nation-building views and greenspace-lined, unimpeded driving between Mackenzie and Wellington? As Uhuniau is so fond of saying, it's not curvy-wurvy enough.

Uhuniau · #**2914** Posted **Jun 25, 2013, 9:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by teej1984

What a colossal waste of money!!!

What does this even mean??? "The current road alignment doesn't meet safety standards."

Has anyone ever heard of an accident happening here!? Yesh

Read, "The current road alignment doesn't meet the NCC's empire-building standards."

Abolish the NCC.

ABOLISH ABOLISH ABOLISH.

Uhuniau · #**2915** Posted **Jun 25, 2013, 9:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by citizen j

As Uhuniau is so fond of saying, it's not curvy-wurvy enough.

OBJECTION! The term is "curly-wurly".

J.OT13 · #**2916** Posted **Jun 25, 2013, 9:39 PM**

The NCC wants the City pay to put trains underground along the parkway. I say the NCC pay to move those houses and make the curve "safer". Their project, their bill!

Boxster · #**2917** Posted **Jun 25, 2013, 10:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by Uhuniau

Read, "The current road alignment doesn't meet the NCC's empire-building standards."

Abolish the NCC.

ABOLISH ABOLISH ABOLISH.

RIGHT ON!!!

citizen j · #**2918** Posted **Jun 25, 2013, 10:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Uhuniau

OBJECTION! The term is "curly-wurly".

How mortifying.

I'll check my sources better next time.

Kitchissippi · #**2919** Posted **Jun 25, 2013, 10:51 PM**

Actually, the widening of that curve is to accommodate bike lanes, something the city has committed itself to, along with its insistence on retaining the four lane configuration. All the NCC cares about is that their Confederation Boulevard aesthetics are overlayed on it. They own those properties but the city is in charge of the roadway standard.

Cre47 · #**2920** Posted **Jun 25, 2013, 11:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by teej1984

What a colossal waste of money!!!

What does this even mean??? "The current road alignment doesn't meet safety standards."

Has anyone ever heard of an accident happening here!? Yesh

That is pretty close to where a cyclist got killed by a bus a few years ago.