All Posts Tagged With: "Kingston Transit"
Weekly Poll: Taxi!
Just in time transportation in the Limestone City is provided by three taxicab companies, specifically: Amey’s, Amherst and Modern. Over the past few years their respective fleets have received various upgrades thanks to the addition of fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles, GPS navigation, debit and credit card machines, as well as safety lights, which flash to indicate [...]
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Weekly Poll: Exercise Your Right
Ladies and gentlemen, Kingston’s 2010 municipal election is but one week away. Well, that’s not entirely true as ballots have already been cast thanks to advance polling that occurred on the 16th of October. You can rock the vote this week, on Wednesday, October 20th (10am to 8pm), or hold out until the final polling [...]
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Community Soapbox: Ebikes
With the cool, wet weather returning, I’m noting the absence of a certain nifty little machine, out in the rainy traffic in front of my house today. The first time I saw one, it was hurtling toward me, going the wrong way up a one-way street. The second time, it was wobbling along in the [...]
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Weekly Poll: Kingston Transit
In 2004 the City of Kingston released the Transportation Master Plan, which outlined current ridership trends and attempted to forecast the transportation needs of Kingstonians in the year 2026. Since the document makes zero reference to hover cars, personal jetpacks and tele-commuting, it’s clearly lacking in the realistic expectations department. That said, notable highlights from [...]
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Weekly Poll: The Wireless City
In late July, New York Transit announced that they were finally moving forward on a plan that would see wireless Internet be made available on the subway. It’s not necessarily revolutionary, as ViaRail has been offering shoddy wireless Internet to riders for a few years now. That said, the move in the Big Apple represents [...]
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All Aboard Google Transit
On February 9th, we confirmed that Google Streetview had finally arrived in the Limestone City. Fast forward to July 16th, where the City of Kingston and the Internet search giant announced the latest development in their blossoming relationship: Google Transit. This add-on to Google’s feature-rich, online map application integrates Kingston Transit bus stops, routes, schedules, [...]
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Clean Air Day
Wednesday, June 2 is Clean Air Day. That’s the day the City offers free rides on Kingston Transit and conducts an anti-idling blitz to encourage residents to spare the air by choosing active forms of transportation and eliminating unnecessary idling. Choosing an active form of transportation, such as riding the bus, walking, or cycling to [...]
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Weekly Poll: Clean Air Day
To help raise awareness and hopefully encourage Kingstonians to participate in Clean Air Day on the 2nd of June, we thought that it would be fitting to focus this week’s poll accordingly. The objective of Clean Air day is simple: utilize alternate modes of transportation to help reduce planet-choking emissions. For commuters who must travel [...]
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Best of 2009 (Part 2 of 5)
Welcome back to the 2nd episode of Kingstonist’s Best of 2009 review. In case you missed part one, I will briefly reiterate that we aren’t ranking posts, rather this list is based upon an analysis of content that received the most comments, page views, links from external websites, as well as input from our contributors [...]
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The Accessible City
Back in 2006, the City of Kingston released the 2007 (4 Year) Accessibility Plan, which was geared towards identifying and improving programs, facilities and infrastructure that were not fully accessible to those with disabilities. Since then, new projects, specifically the K-Rock Centre, Invista Centre, Market Square pavilion and Kingston Police Station, have all been completed [...]
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