Transportation and Transit
Lions Gate Bridge Refurbishment versus the Johnson Street Bridge Refuribishment
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Wed 25 Aug 2010 at 6:06 PM
For the record, I do not like the look of the Johnson Street bridge, but I am not a fan of spending a lot of taxpayer money needlessly for a new bridge that is more expensive than we need.
I thought I
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City of Victoria votes to go forward with a new bridge
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Thu 12 Aug 2010 at 12:52 PM
Just in, the council voted 8-1 to build a new bridge and not to refurbish the existing bridge. Only Geoff Young voted against the new bridge.
What I do not know is what the information looked like t
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The Bridge
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Tue 10 Aug 2010 at 7:37 AM
Today is the last day you can send in your comments to the City in their process. Council will make their decision on Thursday of refurbish or replace.
What I find interesting is how generally quiet
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Just some quick thoughts on traffic
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Mon 09 Aug 2010 at 4:08 PM
On Friday Sheila and I drove up island to camp for a night and we left town during the height of rush hour. Leaving when we did meant we had to go out with the Colwood Crawl and I have a few observa
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That Bridge, Once More
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Thu 05 Aug 2010 at 6:03 PM
Old pic I found online
The City has extended their deadline for comments about the bridge to August 10th. I would submit something except for I am really neutral on the options offered and only real
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Transit and future growth
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Sat 31 Jul 2010 at 11:52 AM
Transit, especially rail based, requires large numbers of people travelling to one central destination. In Victoria we have had Downtown as a major daily destination for years, but is it realisti
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BC Transit Surveying businesses about rapid transit into Downtown
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Tue 20 Jul 2010 at 6:02 PM
From Vibrant Victoria I see that BC Transit is going to all the business and landowners near Douglas, Blanshard and Government to ask them about their thoughts on a rapid transit corridor. Here is wh
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Making Transit more efficient in Victoria
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Sun 18 Jul 2010 at 9:23 AM
The biggest problem we have in Victoria is the lack of serious Express Bus service.
1) Actually make some form of bu lanes on Highway #1 out to the Westshore. There is enough space on either sid
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Light Rail, what would it take to make sense?
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Fri 16 Jul 2010 at 4:45 PM
In looking at different light rail systems through out North America, there seems to be a threshold of 100,000 passenger trips at which point light rail construction and operational costs come to a poi
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Provincial government evaluation of the E&N corridor
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Wed 14 Jul 2010 at 4:17 PM
The provincial government released their study into the E and N corridor and the results are not promising for people hoping that there will be any significant increase in passenger rail service of any
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The Bridge
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Wed 07 Jul 2010 at 2:18 PM
The City is now talking about doing the sort of detailed public engagement that they should have done in the first place. Dean Fortin has a piece in the TC today explaining how the City will procee
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The Bridge
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Thu 17 Jun 2010 at 5:28 PM
Council today decided to go forward with a non-rail bridge option for both replacement and refurbishment. I am very glad to hear that sanity prevails.
Of all the futures I can imagine in the next f
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Johnson Street Bridge Heritage
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Wed 16 Jun 2010 at 9:49 AM
The City has posted some decent documents about the whole bridge issue on their site. The City is making available some documents relating to the heritage values of the bridge.
Among this is the H
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Johnson Street Bridge- Costs to replace or fix
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Tue 15 Jun 2010 at 1:57 PM
The media headlines are $89 million to replace and $103 million to refurbish. These numbers hide what is really going on and the clearly political agenda in the news release. The City has provide
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BC Transit Open House at City Hall
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Mon 07 Jun 2010 at 5:47 PM
I went down to the BC Transit open house today. I ran into MLA John Horgan there and chatted with him for a few minutes, the introduction of rapid transit would be of significant benefit to his c
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Community Forum on the Sayward road/Hwy #17 intersection
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Thu 27 May 2010 at 5:42 PM
I got this email from Lana Popham, MLA for Saanich South. For a long time I have thought this intersection and the one at Haliburton, need to be replaced. My intention is to go to this community f
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Transit use in the CRD, how to boost it
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Thu 04 Mar 2010 at 2:20 PM
The people that commute at the moment are the firm base for BC Transit in this region. What BC Transit needs to do is bring more people onto the buses that are not using it at the moment. Here are so
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Parking in Victoria
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Mon 15 Feb 2010 at 6:44 PM
The City of Victoria has now shifted over to the parking kiosks with numbered stalls, I think it is time for the city to consider making more areas paid parking.Locations close to existing kiosks would
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Communting in Greater Victoria
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Thu 11 Feb 2010 at 3:01 PM
The Canadian Census has some good data on commuting. I went through that data to get some sense on this region.Walk/Bike to workCity of Victoria - 32.9%Sidney - 20.1%Oak Bay - 19.3%Esquimalt - 19.2%S
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Johnson Street Bridge - sources of information
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Sun 17 Jan 2010 at 11:28 PM
View Larger MapIn general I seem to have managed to locate a fair amount of information that the City and others have made available about the bridge, but i know there is information out there that has
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Victoria is the largest ferry dependent community in North America
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Thu 14 Jan 2010 at 1:04 AM
There is no other location in North America that has as many people as Victoria and is ferry dependent. Overall Vancouver Island is the majority of ferry dependent people in North America.There are c
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Johnson Street Bridge - Council Created a Perfect Storm of Opposition
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Fri 08 Jan 2010 at 3:50 PM
The counter petition process was successful as it was signed by more than 15% of the eligible voters. The people of JohnsonStreetBridge.org managed to get more voters in Victoria to sign the counter
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Dogwood Line
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Tue 08 Dec 2009 at 10:34 PM
The Victoria Transit Commission is considering a new bus service from Downtown to UVic that will be a limited stop service like the B-Lines are in Metro Vancouver. This new bus service will be named
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The need for a Regional Transportation Authority
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Wed 28 Oct 2009 at 3:56 PM
The city has now been promised $21 000 000 from the federal government for the replacement of the bridge. This money is not coming from the stimulus money, but from the Build Canada pot of money. T
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Johnson Street Bridge - who should pay
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Wed 23 Sep 2009 at 1:35 AM
Given that the bridge is not very relevant to most of the people that live in the City Victoria but is crucial for people in Esquimalt and View Royal, why is it that the City is bearing the full burden
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The Johnson Street Bridge Replacement
Bernard von Schulmann's Victoria Vision on Tue 15 Sep 2009 at 6:15 PM
We have another nine days to give comments to the city of Victoria on the proposed replacement bridge design for the Johnson Street Bridge.There are open houses at city hall on the following days:Tuesd
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Events in Victoria
09 Sep 2010
Brent Jarvis Showcase/Jam/Fundraiser at Hermann's Jazz Club
NYPD - NOT YOUR PARENTS DISCO with DJ Kenzie Clarke, DJ Kenzie Clarke, DJ Trevor at Lucky Bar
8:00 PM
GALEN HARTLEY AND SARA MARREIROS at The Superior
10 Sep 2010
sub|division SLUGABED, ILLUM SPHERE, BLUE DAISY at Lucky Bar
The Paperboys at Hermann's Jazz Club
8:00 PM
KEN HALL "SAFFRON" at The Superior
11 Sep 2010
Yiddish Columbia State Orchestra at Hermann's Jazz Club
7:30 PM
Arise with a twee bit of reggae spins to start at Black Stilt Coffee Lounge on Hillside
