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recycling cans without the Beer Store guys

Westsideaction — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:30:55 +0000

Feuchtwangen, Germany: the following few pictures take us through the process for returning cans and bottles in a little town in Germany. No lining up with street-savy bottle collectors, this return-o-mat is in the lobby of a large grocery store. The gent we are stalking here has an entire shopping cart of empty Red Bull [...]

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A Found-space park in Toronto

Westsideaction — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:46:57 +0000

Found space parks should be cheap, in that they don’t require a multi-million dollar lot of land. But the very nature of found space means there are utilities, pavements, and adjacent users that have to be accomodated, so the park structures might be expensive per square metre. In Toronto’s little Italy there is a small [...]

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Finding new park space cheaply

Westsideaction — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:25:02 +0000

Some older city neighbourhoods like the west side of Ottawa have fairly scarce park space. The complaint is somewhat tainted by selective counting, since activists often mean City park space, and exclude NCC or other Federal space owned by PWGSC or AgriCan. Or they mean park space for organized games playing, like soccer fields, and [...]

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Counting cyclists — err, path users

Westsideaction — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 08:01:59 +0000

Regular users of Ottawa’s pathway network soon notice the tell-tale under-asphalt loops that connect to counters. We saw pictures of the newest ones under the new OTrain path just a few weeks ago. For the first time there will be counts on a pathway from day one. But only for cyclists. The counters don’t [...]

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Finding OC Transpo at Ottawa Airport

Westsideaction — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 08:58:21 +0000

There are two main doors out of the luggage/arrivals area at Ottawa airport. The centre doors take you out to the taxi stand, car rentals, and parking garage. The south doors take you out much closer to the OC Transpo #97 bus stop. So what does the sign above those doors say? Yup, the [...]

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Crossing the street, seeing red

Westsideaction — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:51:20 +0000

Somerset Street carries the Chinatown designation between Bay and Preston Streets. Yet it is Bronson that is being reconstructed, and there occured much debate about what landscaping should be carried through the intersection. Eventually, the agreement was for the Chinatown landscape to be continuous, and the Bronson one to be interrupted. And since it is [...]

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Getting Married, Westboro Style

Westsideaction — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:46:05 +0000

Westsiders can be trendy. A what is trendier than a Hummer limo and a wedding banquet catered by a street vendor? And wait, is that The Motel I spy in the background? Westsiders truly have it all.

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Westside touristing this week

Westsideaction — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 18:27:04 +0000

This week will be good for touristing around the west side. Perhaps you noticed mysterious markings on the walkways along Somerset near the OTrain? Then work crews drilling holes … The holes were then plugged with paper to keep them clean … On Tuesday, all will be revealed, as the first of [...]

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