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Province announces new big highway to Kitchener.

Post author By IanFindley
Post date March 24, 2007
Categories In Growth, On the Buses, Traffic Management

This week, the Province of Ontario announced plans to build a new 4 lane highway between Guelph and Kitchener. “Better roads will improve safety, create jobs, encourage economic growth and keep this community strong.” says Transportation Minster Donna Cansfield. What of all the talk about improved public transit? I thought we were trying to reduce […]

Cardigan Street Stop Sign: Part IV

Post author By IanFindley
Post date March 23, 2007
Categories In Parking that car, Traffic Management, Ward 2 Events

Staff have responded to the concern about changes to traffic control (stop sign removal) and parking on Cardigan Street. “Please be advised that we have reviewed the matter of relocating the stop sign from Cardigan St to Norwich St and a decision has been made not to proceed further. The notification signage and temporary stop […]

Wal-Mart wants more.

Post author By IanFindley
Post date March 22, 2007
Categories In Growth, Public Input, Traffic Management, Wal-Mart, Ward 2 Events

Less than 4 months after their grand opening, the plans for an expanded Wal-Mart are available for review. 6 & 7 Developments (developer of choice for Wal-Mart in Canada) originally submitted an application to build a regional power centre in Guelph in 1995. There was considerable public discussion on whether the corner of Woodlawn Road […]

Termites. Those little buggers can cost us all!

Post author By IanFindley
Post date March 22, 2007
Categories In Pesticides, Termites, Ward 2 Events

Ward 2 is ground zero for termite infestation in Guelph. An infestation of termites commenced near Goldie Mill park in the 1960’s. The City enacted a Termite Control By-law and was an active participant in the provincial control program with most of the houses and other structures in the infested area chemically treated. In the […]

The parking nightmare on Carden Street.

Post author By IanFindley
Post date March 22, 2007
Categories In Going Downtown, Parking that car, Traffic Management

With construction underway on the new City Hall in Downtown Guelph, many short term parking spaces were eliminated to create a staging area for construction materials. This may not seem significant unless you are a merchant on Carden street. The city is also proposing to relocate the bus transfer hub to Carden Street from the […]

City Hall – One Stop Shopping

Post author By IanFindley
Post date March 19, 2007
Categories In City Policy, Growth, Transparency, Uncategorized

For many years, it has been difficult to navigate’s one way through the corridors of Guelph’s City Hall. If you wanted to open a new business, you’d have to figure out who you needed to talk to, then try and find them. Then try and find the next person. Then the next. Many attempts to […]

Making Guelph Transit work for you

Post author By IanFindley
Post date March 19, 2007
Categories In On the Buses, Public Input, Traffic Management

What would it take to encourage you to take the bus instead of driving your car? There is has been considerable focus on climate change since Al Gore’s movie Inconvenient Truth was released last year. Clearly, we as a society will have to make major changes to our lifestyle to reduce our carbon footprint.

Reader Comments

Post author By IanFindley
Post date March 16, 2007
Categories In Public Input

I really appreciated the chance to have a look at the joint councillor blog. It’s clear Sandy Walsh is doing some great work to assist you both in communicating. There are three minor suggestions below, but overall I would just want to encourage you to find a great way to let folks know that the […]

Parking Changes – Cardigan Street Part III

Post author By IanFindley
Post date March 16, 2007
Categories In Traffic Management, Ward 2 Events

The following letter was recently circulated to residents on Cardigan St. by city staff. “With the recent reconstruction of Cardigan St. city staff have reviewed the existing parking restrictions on Cardigan St. between Norwich St. E. and London Rd. E. To maintain traffic flow, assist with vehicles entering and exiting from private parking areas and […]