Post some pictures of your city! II - Page 356

Martin Mtl · #**7101** Posted **Dec 16, 2018, 5:37 PM**

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Wpg_Guy · #**7102** Posted **Dec 17, 2018, 7:07 AM**

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Martin Mtl · #**7103** Posted **Dec 22, 2018, 12:56 AM**

/\ Great set. Thank for the work!

Here's a copious "best of" of recent Instagrams of Montreal.

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SignalHillHiker · #**7104** Posted **Dec 23, 2018, 1:00 AM**

A few recently-uploaded ones...

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Newfoundland West Coast by Bill Dubreuil, on Flickr

The pink, the Rose of England shows, the green, St. Patrick's Emblem, bright, while in between, the spotless sheen of Andrew's Cross displays the white... so hail, the pink the white the green, our patriot flag, long may it stand. Our sirelands twine their emblems trine to form the flag of Newfoundland...

Twillingate, Newfoundland by Bill Dubreuil, on Flickr

St. Johns, Newfoundland by Bill Dubreuil, on Flickr

Trinity, Newfoundland by Bill Dubreuil, on Flickr

St. John's Newfoundland by Bill Dubreuil, on Flickr

Festival of Lights 2 by Jerry Curtis, on Flickr

Moody Monday 2 by Zach Bonnell, on Flickr

Ferryland, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada by Bill Jarvis, on Flickr

Signal Hill Road Winter Morning by Zach Bonnell, on Flickr

DSC_0048r by Marty Ross, on Flickr

Colour in the Snow by Karen Chappell, on Flickr

Snow Covered by Karen Chappell, on Flickr

And a few of mine from the past few days...

Gorgeous evening in St. John's. J and I went to Matturday Wright Live - stand-up and sketch comedy hosted by Matt Wright. It's NEVER on a Saturday.

Vicki Mullaley did a whole set tonight as Bayonce (Beyonce from the Bay, as in rural Newfoundland). It was fantastic. "If I was one of the b'ys", "Lord jumpins jumpins", etc. But Nan was our fave:

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Anyhow, beautiful...

We went to The Once's annual Christmas concert this evening (J. and I go every year; they're my favourite band). Tonight the special guests were Matt Wright, my favourite comedian, and Amelia Curran, my favourite solo artist (who sang my favourite of her songs, Bye Bye Montreal), AND Fortunate Ones, who I really love as well.

It was my dream lineup.

Also, Christmas is the only time you can say/sing f****t in a church here, courtesy of the Pogues lol.

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And Amelia is more or less retired from live performances now, this was her first one in just over a year. She said November before last she was having her last show and assumed it would be special "but it was in Hamilton"

And there was a woman from Newmarket, Ontario, in the audience who flew down just for this show. And Geraldine (lead singer of The Once) had her 11-year-old niece sing "I won't do Christmas without you", and she's actually really good.

The Once and Fortunate Ones were teasing each other about always being up for the same awards, and then the fact they've both been nominated multiple times for Junos but never got one became a running joke. "Here's another one from our Juno-losing album..." Etc.

But anyhow, I got to see Amelia again live.

Doing my favourite of her songs...

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EDIT: ONE more, sorry. It`s just such a beautiful old song.

And audience sings along, so nice.

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SKYSTHELIMIT · #**7105** Posted **Dec 23, 2018, 4:20 PM**

Fantastic pics and clips SHH! Loved the “Fairytale of New York” one of my all time fav Christmas songs. Beautiful setting in that church for a holiday concert.
Happy Holidays 🎄

mcminsen · #**7106** Posted **Dec 24, 2018, 7:00 AM**

A green Christmas in Vancouver.

Downtown Vancouver, Dec.23 '18, my pics

SignalHillHiker · #**7107** Posted **Dec 25, 2018, 2:12 AM**

Thanks, Sky!

And gorgeous pics, McMimsen! Come back to the weather thread already. Everyone misses you! No one meant any offense and we're all really sad your pics are not there anymore.

mcminsen · #**7108** Posted **Jan 1, 2019, 10:35 AM**

New Year's Eve around English Bay.

Vancouver, Dec.31 '18, my pics

giallo · #**7109** Posted **Jan 2, 2019, 1:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Thanks, Sky!

And gorgeous pics, McMimsen! Come back to the weather thread already. Everyone misses you! No one meant any offense and we're all really sad your pics are not there anymore.

Yes. This. Your pictures are always great, and they add another layer to the weather thread. Please reconsider, and come back.

SpongeG · #**7110** Posted **Jan 4, 2019, 2:42 AM**

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FrAnKs · #**7111** Posted **Jan 4, 2019, 3:33 AM**

Old Québec City
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someone123 · #**7112** Posted **Jan 5, 2019, 6:46 PM**

Halifax Grand Parade on New Year's Eve

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Granville Street

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Chase Building at Dalhousie

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Barrington Street

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FrAnKs · #**7113** Posted **Jan 5, 2019, 7:07 PM**

I love Halifax, it's on my top 5 places in Canada where I would like to live.
I just wish it was a little bigger than 425k Metro. The Maritimes deserve a 1M metro area!

someone123 · #**7114** Posted **Jan 5, 2019, 7:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by FrAnKs

I love Halifax, it's on my top 5 places in Canada where I would like to live.
I just wish it was a little bigger than 425k Metro. The Maritimes deserve a 1M metro area!

This is pretty much how I feel too. I wish there were a major city in the same style. I like Halifax because of its progressiveness, mix of old and new, coastal location, and Atlantic cultural flavour. It has been growing a lot and is losing the small town feel that it used to have 20 years ago but it won't be a large metropolitan area in the foreseeable future, and even if that did happen now it would probably destroy the character that makes the place interesting.

Even so I think it might be more solidly within the "club" of well-known and attractive national cities in the next 10-20 years, a place that people think about moving to if they want a change of scenery.

SignalHillHiker · #**7115** Posted **Jan 5, 2019, 8:11 PM**

Love the last HFX pic.

It's positioned well for that, becoming a place people would move to. It already gets a significant percentage of its university students from Ontario. So that's a connection that doesn't really exist to the same degree elsewhere in Atlantic Canada (i.e. most MUN students are from Newfoundland or international).

To date, like the rest of the Atlantic Canadian cities, much of Halifax's growth has been from its own hinterlands. But that's changing. All of the Atlantic capitals, over the past 3-4 years, have seen booming international immigration. It's still less than Toronto would get in a few days, but it's growing.

Here, for example, we're up around 25% annually for each of the past several years. And Halifax is doing even better.

kool maudit · #**7116** Posted **Jan 6, 2019, 12:44 PM**

Halifax is plenty big enough. I think we should consider what things we associate with a million-person metro area, and ask which of them truly need one million people to exist.

Halifax is some well-designed transit away from offering a nationally appealing metropolitan option. It has some great schools, a solid historic core, a full-service international airport, and a wonderful landscape.

Light rail along South Park and Tower from Point Pleasant Park: it goes underground at the Lord Nelson with a stop at Queen to the transfer at Maritime Centre. There it meets the other line, which travels from the Hydrostone to Central Station with an underground portion starting at Scotia Square.

Central Station is reconfigured as a commuter hub with lines to Bedford and Cole Harbour. The bus station is relocated there with an express line to the airport. A ferry stop is added, and maybe a Copenhagen-style water line that stops at Dartmouth, Purdy's Wharf, Historic Properties, the foot of Sackville, Central, and Pier 21.

All of this is feasible and many cities Halifax's size have equivalent systems. These things could even be Toronto streetcars, really.

Run a line down Quinpool and past the Commons joining up to the underground hub at the Lord Nelson/Public Gardens and you have yourself a solid backbone. Commuters jumping on and off, automated announcements saying things like "next stop Bell Road/Museum, this line terminates at Spring Garden with transfer service to Halifax Central". This is city stuff, the good stuff. You don't need another half a million people in the suburbs. Malmo has this.

It's actually really nice that a city Halifax's size allows nature options so close to the core. That's not bad or small-townish. It's great and convenient. Why stack subdivisions out to Sambro and eat all of that up?

kool maudit · #**7117** Posted **Jan 6, 2019, 12:55 PM**

Quinpool line should probably turn on Connaught out to Halifax Shopping Centre. I'm getting into this.

kool maudit · #**7118** Posted **Jan 6, 2019, 1:04 PM**

Malmo Triangeln. You can see it's not super-crowded. This is not Bloor and Yonge. It's a small metro of 450,000. But once you can get everywhere, people use it and value it. They are inclined to fund it.

Build some weirdo little 'heritage trolley' as a start and nobody wants to pay up. Canada is frustrating sometimes because it's the great American social democracy but this goes beyond going to the doctor.

someone123 · #**7119** Posted **Jan 6, 2019, 7:01 PM**

Transit in Halifax is really sad. Hopefully the growth there will cause people to think more carefully about how transportation in the city will work in the future. Halifax does not really have the boutique transit project problem; the transit there is very practical. It's just planned too timidly with capital budgets that are a small fraction of what they should be. It's the same deal as Toronto and Vancouver but at a smaller scale and worse. Halifax is really stuck because the city's moving beyond the scale and level of congestion where incremental improvements to buses do anything, but that is the only tool available there right now given the level of funding and ambition.

The Cogswell interchange demo is supposed to start in 2019 and is an amazing opportunity to built a downtown transit hub and some underground connections but I think that is unlikely. The city started the Cogswell planning process with the assumption that it would be revenue neutral. What a mistake.

What's too bad is that historically Halifax was just slightly too small to have big city transit. It had trams going all the way back to 1860 or so, maybe the oldest system in Canada. In the 1890's the city planned a subway, which in those days meant underground tunnels for trams, but it was never built. The trams were replaced by trolleybuses in 1949 and then those were scrapped in 1970. Had the city been a bit bigger it likely would have maintained these systems and ended up with much better transit in the urban core.

Nouvellecosse · #**7120** Posted **Jan 6, 2019, 7:37 PM**

I actually never heard about the plan for a subway. They must have been expecting some pretty serious growth because while larger systems were needed in smaller cities before the rise of the automobile, that's... kinda pushing it.