I'm surprised by the Port Royal Centre...in a good way. I was expecting your standard power centre (without the apartment/condo units). Still pretty standard architecture, but at least it's higher density as opposed to the cookie cutter single family home subdivisions, which btw we're lucky aren't as bad as the ones in Quebec and Ontario.
No joke, driving out of Montreal last month, we past a new subdivision beside the highway...
all the houses were the
exact same (ah, suburbs). Anyway, sidetracked...
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Originally Posted by stu_pendousmat2
The intersection of Champlain st and Acadia ave. is what I'm talking about...at certain times of the day its almost as bad as prospect and regent here in Freddy, which is BAD (as you know haha).
You have a point about the Moncton airport, in Moncton we have the only NAV Canada control tower in the maritimes because all those flights pass over us. However Gander is the city/town in NFLD with a NAV tower (for the same reason as Moncton) but most flights in and out of that province are at St. Johns. The difference there of course is that Moncton is the center of the maritimes and Gander is far from center of NFLD...So possibly we could pull it off...just not so sure Halogians (spell) would want to start needing to drive 3 hours to Moncton for every flight, or switch planes in our airport.
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Does that intersection have as many people running red lights and trying to turn left despite
5 posted "no lefts allowed under any circumstances" signs. (sorry, a little bitter at the drivers here in Freddy).
As for the airport, they'd just have to attract an airline that will provide the service, not necessarily steal it from Halifax. HfxMtl is right about the ridiculous customs situation though...and it's not just in Moncton. The "direct" flight between Sydney and Cuba from SunWing has to stop to clear customs in Halifax before continuing on the same plane because they wouldn't hire another officer for the Sydney airport (there's only two officers in Sydney and both work the seaport...and they can refuse overtime which is a right I'd never take away from them).