Entries from August 2007

August 31, 2007

Buy local, buy fresh!

The Wellington County’s Buy Local! Buy Fresh! Map has grown by leaps and bounds over its three year history. With only a few thousand copies left of 30,000, the BL!BF! Map has helped the current local food movement come to fruition. This is your invite to come and enjoy two new initiatives this year that [...]

August 30, 2007

Downtown garbage

As a downtowner I frequently include my Sunday walks along MacDonnell Street and am appalled at the amount of garbage that is left by bar patrons. There are styrofoam boxes with half eaten food, styrofoam coffee cups, broken glass, condoms and trash of all kinds and sundry. I have personally counted at least 6 bars [...]

August 30, 2007

When’s the next bus? 40 minutes!!

I am clearly irate about reducing bus services. Please explain how reducing the service benefits me? or perhaps it is just a way to pay for the ridiculous bus stop number service. By the way while researching the new implemented bus stop number, you really did not have to get advice from any American city…You [...]

August 30, 2007

City Set to Test Speed Cushions

The following article appeared in the August 28 edition of the Guelph Tribune:
The city is planning to test a new type of traffic calming device as part of ongoing efforts to reduce speeds and decrease the amount of traffic short-cutting through neighbourhoods.
“Speed cushions,” which recently came onto the market,

August 20, 2007

Better bus service please!

A quick note to urge you to keep the buses running at current intervals-not the 40 minutes being discussed.
I agree with the local citizen who proposed 15 minute intervals during rush hour, and I believe that 40 minutes is a step backwards for transit useability. BS

August 20, 2007

Essex Street re-opening

We are contacting you with respect to your decision to allow a road to be built through the Essex Street Park.
We applaud your decision to choose an alternative road alignment in an attempt to protect the trees on the site. We remain concerned about the
trees that will be closest to the road alignment and hope [...]

August 15, 2007

Guelph Transit’s 40 minute decision

The following correspondence has been provided by Guelph Transit Services (GTS):
“GTS will proceed with our plans to move to a 40 minute frequency during peak periods however Mayor Farbridge has indicated this issue would be discussed at the September 12 meeting of the Emergency, Community and Operations Committee.
Our Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) equipment, installed earlier [...]