As we head into the weekend, here’s a little food for thought…
Ever look at the fire hydrants in your neighbourhood? A few years ago, in Ontario, Fire Hydrants started being colour coded. But do you know what the coding means?
Blue – flow greater than 95 litres/second
Green – flow of 63 to 95 L/s
Orange – flow of 31 to 63 L/s
Red – flow less than 31 L/s
So look around at your area, what colour is protecting your block? Maybe we should start looking at some of the federal infrastructure dollars for fixing the areas protected by red hydrants, instead of dreaming of concrete ditches downtown filled with tap water…
I seem to recall when the Fire Department was fighting the warehouse fire at Walker & Richmond, or maybe the one on McDougall & Hanna, they had to go back a block or two back to find a hydrant with enough pressure to fight the fire.
Something to think about over the weekend. Are Windsor’s priorities in the right place?
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It isn't a chicken or egg issue JBM. I stated retail follows population which it does. Retail will not go downtown unless people can purchase from it. People will not go downtown unless there is something to bring them there. The infrastructure must be there to bring people downtown to live.
Your second and third paragraphs back up my arguement. But I have no idea what the casino has to do with the debate? I am not saying the canal is the silver bullet for downtown (to which you may be alluding to) but it certainly is a large piece of the puzzle.
You can try and debate other elements such as crime but to "suppose" I think is safe is a horrible attempt to do so. Just for the record I have been a big proponent to increase crime PREVENTION by having cops walk the beat instead of driving around in cruisers.
The elevation impediment is solved because the canal will be lowered along with the boardwalks that surround it. So will many of the businesses with mixed retail and housing on top. Bars are zoned out of the area so that is a moot point. Obviously you didn't read the report.
On my morning walk along riverside I spot this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/podsiljak/3525322807/in/photostream/
@Zee : wow, its either worse than a red hydrant, or its a hydrant that likes other hydrants! ;)
heheheh well I seen green to, but not like one shown on blog. This one is light green color. There is a lot of them on Riverside after Jefferson.