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The rain this weekend broke all records except one, rainiest month. That honour belongs to last July. Buy some wood and google 'cubit'. But stats say it didn't in fact rain that much downtown. The airport got 150 mm over the two days, the Annex got like 38.
The trumpety flower that's taking over the neighbourhood is hibiscus. Can tell by the buds.
Once again, heading to the super, the intersection was blocked. Cars in some kind of accident, ambulance, fire trucks, and southbound traffic backed up to Dupont while the northbound cars whizzed past-- or rather, slowed down to gawk. People. By the time I got out there were police directing traffic, or at least telling drivers to stop leaning on the horns, and some of the southbound guys- including buses- were able to inch past the cars and on their way. Unfortunately one of the cops saw me standing by the signal and asked if I wanted to cross, and I didn't have the wit to say Not in a rush, let these guys go ahead. So he stopped traffic for me and of course the northbound cars took over the single lane and stopped all southbound traffic, including alas the bus. Hope they got some real traffic cops in to sort out the confusion. Especially since what seemed to have happened was a simple rear-ender, and not the first time at that crosswalk. People *will* tailgate and when a car stops for the signal, bang.
The thing being that Christie didn't have to be two lanes. They widened the already wide sidewalks all up its length for no reason at all, with the results that it's not only constantly backed up, it's a bitch to bicycle on.
The trumpety flower that's taking over the neighbourhood is hibiscus. Can tell by the buds.
Once again, heading to the super, the intersection was blocked. Cars in some kind of accident, ambulance, fire trucks, and southbound traffic backed up to Dupont while the northbound cars whizzed past-- or rather, slowed down to gawk. People. By the time I got out there were police directing traffic, or at least telling drivers to stop leaning on the horns, and some of the southbound guys- including buses- were able to inch past the cars and on their way. Unfortunately one of the cops saw me standing by the signal and asked if I wanted to cross, and I didn't have the wit to say Not in a rush, let these guys go ahead. So he stopped traffic for me and of course the northbound cars took over the single lane and stopped all southbound traffic, including alas the bus. Hope they got some real traffic cops in to sort out the confusion. Especially since what seemed to have happened was a simple rear-ender, and not the first time at that crosswalk. People *will* tailgate and when a car stops for the signal, bang.
The thing being that Christie didn't have to be two lanes. They widened the already wide sidewalks all up its length for no reason at all, with the results that it's not only constantly backed up, it's a bitch to bicycle on.