September 18, 2007

Douglas Street for foot traffic only?

The following article appeared in the September 18 edition of the Guelph Mercury:
Café tables spill out onto cobblestones. Waiters deliver meals by the light of street lamps. People casually hang out on benches and art installations occasionally fill the street.
It might sound like Europe, or at least Quebec City. But if Councillor Ian Findlay has [...]

September 18, 2007

Waverley Drive traffic

I am asking  you, as one of your constituents to do anything you can to get
Traffic Services to place a STOP sign on Waverley Drive at the corner  of Waverley and Stevenson. Waverley Drive has become a speedway with  cars humping down the street at way over the posted speed limit. As I mentioned in our [...]

September 18, 2007

Pesticide Spraying / railway line behind Dufferin/Cardigan

I just wanted to register my serious concern regarding the pesticide spraying that is going/has been going on adjacent to the railway line behind our house.I know that this is city land and that the new pesticide by-law should be enforced to prevent spraying in this area. The residents of this neighborhood have no desire [...]

September 18, 2007

Pine Ridge disaster!

Take a walk down Summerfield, and most other streets in the Pine Ridge area, and you’ll find the complete loss of a substantial percentage of lawns, and substantial damage to most (other than those that were sprayed with the appropriate lawn care products). The fantasy that lawns can look just as healthy is just not [...]