November 11, 2009
The following letter to the editor appeared in the November 10 edition of the Guelph Mercury:
The late John Edwards, who was an environmentalist, community leader, and the man who led our neighbourhood in saving an open space for what is now Carter Park, and the tiny frog whose habitat was threatened by a housing development, would be appalled and disappointed at the actions of the so-called activists who harrassed, threatened and abused the city and business leaders at the Hanlon Business Park recently. Keep reading →
November 11, 2009
I am a student at the University of Guelph completing a degree in water resources engineering.
I would like to express my disgust in how the City is pursuing the HCBP. Why do you consider it green? How do you consider this project to follow LID (Low Impact Dev.) practices, when you are still installing conventional stormwater management systems and are still paving over 70% (I assumed the 24% of open land was the only certain pervious area) of the land? Keep reading →
November 10, 2009
The following article appeared in the November 10 edition of the Guelph Mercury:
In the summer of 1990, more than 12,000 vehicles a day drove along Wyndham Street through St. George’s Square.
Seventeen years later, daily trips on the same stretch had dropped to about 5,400. Keep reading →
November 8, 2009
Traffic Counts for a 24 hour period on Wyndham St through St.George’s Square:
July 1990 12,500
September 1993 12,100
July 1998 Signal Lights at Wyndham & Quebec Programming Change
October 1998 8,300
October 2002 6,445
November 2004 6,495
April 2007 5,476