I survived Vegas

Went to Vegas with my family and Randy for my mom’s 60th. They liked Cirque du Soleil and the short flight to the Grand Canyon was actually fun.

Ads, they understand. Bike racks, not so much.

The “street furniture” proposals are on display. One of the Spacing folks helpfully broke the PDFs into images for easier viewing. (He’s not making the images CC licensed, though [oddly] so no direct links.) All the bike racks suck. They’re either flimsy-looking, impossible to lock to safely (locking both frame and at least one wheel,continue reading

Spacing.ca intersection

Today’s has me totally stumped. It’s a signalled intersection on a fairly wide street, with some sort of dead end or curve the better part of a mile away.

England expects; or, I cannot answer that question, sir.

I’m trying to get inside Leading Seaman Turney’s head. (Sordid details here.) “Obviously we trespassed into their waters,” British sailor Faye Turney said on the video broadcast by Al-Alam, an Arabic-language, Iranian state-run television station that is carried across the Middle East. “They were very friendly and very hospitable, very thoughtful, nice people. They explainedcontinue reading

Arrrrr

I’m not sure I believe a word of this, but it’s a great story. Toronto Star, February 27, 1911.

Via Oliveto

… has closed. I remember the last time we went there was after their big makeover. The place looked nice but the food seemed to have slipped a notch or two, and we didn’t go back. In other news, it looks like the City is installing traffic lights at Bloor and Walmer. Which brings ancontinue reading

King streetcar plan

So what do we think of this? Diagram is here (.pdf). I’ve found myself using the King car quite a lot, and it really needs some help getting through downtown. You’d think that 45,000 bums on seats every day buys a certain amount of moral leverage. When it moves well, it’s an excellent system, butcontinue reading