{"id":9080,"date":"2012-10-13T08:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T12:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=9080"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:22:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:22:33","slug":"across-the-ottawa-spaces-13-october-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/10\/13\/across-the-ottawa-spaces-13-october-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Across the Ottawa Spaces &#8211; 13 October 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eric Darwin<\/strong> notes <a href=\"https:\/\/westsideaction.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/10\/update-on-otrain-bike-path-mup\/\">the progress in setting up the bike path paralleling the current O-Train route<\/a>, and recounts the story of another aspect of the Greber Plan that never happened, <a href=\"https:\/\/westsideaction.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/11\/the-late-unlamented-champagne-freeway\/\">the Champagne Freeway<\/a>, and how &#8211; despite never being completed &#8211; its after-effects haunted west Centretown homeowners and other residents for decades afterward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Images of Centretown<\/strong> comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/centretown.blogspot.ca\/2012\/10\/peds-on-weds-why-dont-you-have-seat.html\">a need of pedestrians at the corner of Bank and Catherine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kathryn Hunt<\/strong> observes <a href=\"http:\/\/theincidentalcyclist.blogspot.ca\/2012\/10\/one-year-later.html\">the anniversary of the death of fellow cyclist Danielle Na\u00e7u<\/a>, and notes some of the progress made in making Ottawa a safer city for cyclists in general.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Urbsite<\/strong> recounts <a href=\"http:\/\/urbsite.blogspot.ca\/2012\/10\/east-memorial-building.html\">some of the history behind the East Memorial Building<\/a> in western Centretown. 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