{"id":4178,"date":"2010-11-08T22:58:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T03:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:27:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:27:40","slug":"great-divide-the-reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/11\/08\/great-divide-the-reprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Centretown&#8217;s great divide &#8211; the reprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6pYRCZqTScY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6pYRCZqTScY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>We ran this video <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/11\/08\/great-divide-the-reprise\/\">back in June <\/a>not long after we learned of the City&#8217;s plans to widen the already dangerous Bronson Avenue ever further. What do we mean by dangerous? The video is an unedited minute of rush hour, shot from the perspective of a pedestrian waiting to cross Bronson at Somerset. Except that, other than the masochist shooting the video, there are no pedestrians; foot traffic knows to avoid Bronson if at all possible.<\/p>\n<p>We think it is timely to run the video again during the week when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centretowncitizens.ca\/rescuebronson\">Rescue Bronson<\/a> team is mobilizing concerned Centretown citizens ahead of the public meeting on the Bronson Avenue rebuilding, tomorrow at 7.00 PM at the McNabb Community Centre at Percy and Gladstone.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign has been getting attention from the news media; they track the news stories on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centretowncitizens.ca\/rescuebronson\/bronson-resources\">their resource page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Commentators have started weighing on the Bronson rebuild as well; the columnist that caught our eye this week was the Citizen&#8217;s Ken Gray, who, if I am reading him right, thinks that even an off-the-cuff comment about supporting<a href=\"http:\/\/communities.canada.com\/ottawacitizen\/blogs\/bulldog\/archive\/2010\/10\/29\/uh-oh-katherine-hobbs.aspx\"> road-widening in Westboro at some nebulous time in the future<\/a> is to be strongly opposed the moment it is uttered, while on the other hand, the City&#8217;s detailed plans to widen the dangerous, neighbourhood-damaging Bronson Avenue <em>next year<\/em> are just something Centretown citizens are <a href=\"http:\/\/communities.canada.com\/ottawacitizen\/blogs\/bulldog\/archive\/2010\/11\/09\/bronson-avenue-another-lansdowne-park.aspx\">going to have to deal with<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We ran this video back in June not long after we learned of the City&#8217;s plans to widen the already dangerous Bronson Avenue ever further. What do we mean by dangerous? The video is an unedited minute of rush hour, shot from the perspective of a pedestrian waiting to cross Bronson at Somerset. Except that,<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/11\/08\/great-divide-the-reprise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Centretown&#8217;s great divide &#8211; the reprise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5066,"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":[5307],"tags":[444,1079,2295,2584,2583,348,1,375],"class_list":["post-4178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-centretown","tag-columnist","tag-ken-gray","tag-mcnabb-community-centre","tag-news-media","tag-transportation","tag-uncategorized","tag-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Centretown&#039;s great divide - the reprise - 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\/2010\/11\/08\/great-divide-the-reprise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Centretown&#039;s great divide - the reprise - Spacing Ottawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We ran this video back in June not long after we learned of the City&#8217;s plans to widen the already dangerous Bronson Avenue ever further. 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