{"id":10823,"date":"2013-09-23T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?p=10823"},"modified":"2013-09-23T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T01:43:09","slug":"across-ottawa-spaces-23-september-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2013\/09\/23\/across-ottawa-spaces-23-september-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Across the Ottawa Spaces &#8211; 23 September 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eric Darwin<\/strong> speculates on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsideaction.com\/what-to-do-with-unused-talents\/\">several possible fates for the Talent O-Train consists<\/a> once the new Alstom trains are in service, and also discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsideaction.com\/pedestrians-as-terrorists-or-maybe-raccoons-the-hickory-edition\/\">the new safety fencing proposed for the Hickory Street footbridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At <strong>Vanier Now<\/strong>, Rachel Muston brings up the topic of <a href=\"http:\/\/vaniernow.blogspot.ca\/2013\/09\/agit-pov-inspiring-change-by-cycling.html\">bicycling as activism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Urbsite<\/strong> tells the tale of <a href=\"http:\/\/urbsite.blogspot.ca\/2013\/09\/playing-with-elgin-street-blocks.html\">how the Esplanade Laurier and Place Bell towers happened to join the Centretown cityscape<\/a>&#8230;and how they&#8217;re linked to projects elsewhere in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Over at the <strong><em>Ottawa Citizen<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>David Reevely<\/strong> notes <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ottawacitizen.com\/2013\/09\/21\/the-queen-street-boneyard\/\">the accidental rediscovery of a cemetery<\/a> on the site of what&#8217;s currently the northern end of Elgin Street. For more details, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/ottawastart.blogspot.ca\/2013\/09\/andrew-king-does-some-research-into.html\">this OttawaStart entry<\/a>.\u00a0 Also of interest, Reevely further comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ottawacitizen.com\/2013\/09\/13\/whats-a-good-time-for-a-public-consultation\/\">the issues tied up in scheduling public consultations<\/a> on just about any urban issue you&#8217;d care to name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Images of Centretown<\/strong> notes <a href=\"http:\/\/centretown.blogspot.ca\/2013\/09\/metcalfe-boulevard-loses-another.html\">more casualties in the ongoing battle between the city&#8217;s tree cover and the emerald ash borer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ottawa Past and Present<\/strong> focuses upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastottawa.com\/comparison\/grand-union-hotel-on-elgin-street\/372\/\">the former site of the Grand Union Hotel<\/a> on Elgin Street.<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>three groups on Facebook<\/strong> recently brought to our attention that might be of interest to Ottawa-area <strong><em>Spacing<\/em><\/strong> readers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LostOttawa\">Lost Ottawa<\/a>, devoted to the photographic history of the city of Ottawa; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/553744754673753\/\">a group devoted to rescuing the World Exchange Plaza Cinema<\/a> from what appears to be an immenent shutdown at this writing; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Ottawa-Type\/365769080199866\">Ottawa Type<\/a>, which addresses notable signage design across Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Darwin speculates on several possible fates for the Talent O-Train consists once the new Alstom trains are in service, and also discusses the new safety fencing proposed for the Hickory Street footbridge. 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Urbsite tells the tale of how the Esplanade Laurier<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2013\/09\/23\/across-ottawa-spaces-23-september-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Across the Ottawa Spaces &#8211; 23 September 2013&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[362,5299,5300,343,5303,5304,5307,344,5309,37,373],"tags":[2294,5384,404,618,5346,444,631,5348,406,535,5347,5349,1052],"class_list":["post-10823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-community","category-culture","category-curiosities","category-green-space","category-history","category-media","category-politics","category-services","category-spacing","category-transit","tag-activist","tag-architecture","tag-arts-culture","tag-bicyclists","tag-cemeteries","tag-centretown","tag-elgin-street","tag-esplanade-laurier","tag-light-rail-transit","tag-ottawa-history","tag-place-bell","tag-typography","tag-world-exchange-plaza"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Across the Ottawa Spaces - 23 September 2013 - Spacing Ottawa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2013\/09\/23\/across-ottawa-spaces-23-september-2013\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Across the Ottawa Spaces - 23 September 2013 - Spacing Ottawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eric Darwin speculates on several possible fates for the Talent O-Train consists once the new Alstom trains are in service, and also discusses the new safety fencing proposed for the Hickory Street footbridge. 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