All Posts Tagged With: "Kingston Transit"
Weekly Poll: Double Decker Buses
When someone mentions double decker buses, chances are you conjure up images of the UK’s iconic red-coloured variety, or perhaps the open air models that are used to ferry around tourists on sightseeing ventures in larger cities. Save for the Megabuses that operate between Montreal and Niagara Falls, there aren’t too many cities in Canada [...]
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City Adds New Online Payment Options
The City’s online payment system has added the option for residents to use their Interac or American Express cards. “Residents are increasingly comfortable with the convenience of conducting their City business online and we are working on adding online service and conveniences,” says Marielle Laplante-Wheeler, Manager Client Services. “You can pay online any time of [...]
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Best of 2011: Light Rail Transit
Our weekly polls once again proved to be a fantastic mechanism for gauging community support, while one of the most talked about polls from 2011 focused on the necessity of light rail transit in Kingston. Our readers weighed in with their experience using mass transit in other cities, they proposed possible routes for an LRT [...]
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Weekly Poll: Expressways and Parkways
As a result of some recent home renovation projects, I’ve been doing a bit more commuting between our downtown and the west end, which is home to multiple DIY big box suppliers. My travels have been painfully slow at times thanks in part to construction on Bath Road, as well as drivers who insist on [...]
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What if Kingston…
Over the past few months we’ve watched numerous developments take shape such as bike lanes and the Montreal Street Park and Ride, while we’ve also learned of priority projects including long overdue lane extensions and the third crossing. While these initiatives are similar as they relate to how we move about the Limestone City, they’re [...]
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Weekly Poll: Scramble Crosswalks
Right foot, left foot, one foot in front of the other and so on. Walking is a pretty pedestrian topic of conversation, but in the past we’ve stirred up some fairly decent debates centred around this activity, specifically whether or not pedestrian friendly streets are a good fit for Kingston (they are), as well as [...]
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Canada Day Festivities and Closures
Kingston’s Canada Day celebrations are scheduled for Confederation Park and Grass Creek Park. A list of holiday and road closures follows below. Here’s what is going on: Red & White People Parade: Anyone wearing Canadian red and white is welcome to join this parade which departs from the Metro parking lot (at Barrie and Princess [...]
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Weekly Poll: Park and Ride
While heading out Montreal en route to cottage country this past weekend, we passed by the new, massive park and ride station, conveniently situated next to the 401. Presently, the Montreal Street/401 park and ride consists of few winding lanes, signs to direct the flow of traffic and some unfinished parking areas, all of which [...]
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Weekly Poll: Smoking Bylaw Expansion
Once upon a time you could do it in restaurants, movie theatres, taxi cabs, and even in classrooms. Doctors prescribed certain brands as a cure all, and Hollywood would have you believe that all the cool kids are doing it. In case you haven’t figured it out, I’m referring to darts, death sticks, smokes…cigarettes. Nearly ten [...]
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Weekly Poll: Prioritizing Captial Infrastructure Projects
I need you to think back to last October, during the lead up to the 2010 municipal election. At that time, candidates of all stripes were making the rounds, touting the necessity of this aquatic centre over that road expansion, and then there’s the ongoing saga to realize a third crossing over the Cataraqui River. [...]
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