City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
10That is 100% absolutely that wrong decision to make.The people who used City Hall last winter, as am emergency warming shelter, were people that were unable to access 23 Gordon Street. This article acknowledges the location was not at full capacity last winter. There are reasons why.Now City Hall is closing the door on Guelph's most vulnerable. A very bad and irresponsible decision. This will become an election issue and will end up embassassing City staff, City Council and show disconnect between a public building and it's residents.
28- Alec Purves
City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
31Why is it a bad decision now that steppingstone can accommodate everyone? Oh but catch is they have to follow some rules, which is why they have chosen not to go to steppingstone and instead wreak havoc at City Hall.
7- debf
Staff recommend historic bridge on Stone Road be saved, rehabilitated
5Why stop there, Matt? Maybe we can turn the Basilica of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception into a transit terminal for light rail, or maybe even demolish it and put a 20 storey condo tower above, retail on ground level, and light rail right beside it. Perfect, n'est pas??John HagopianWhitby
32- usr_669030
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Staff recommend historic bridge on Stone Road be saved, rehabilitated
16Yes like get rid of the bike lanes
19- Reasonable Person
OPINION: Construction is lifeline to downtown, not a death sentence
9I would like to see what will happen to MacDonell Street next year during the Memorial cup. How embarrassing for our city. It should have been given to Kitchener for this reason! Our taxes will go through the roof!
22- Kara Beitz
City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
21Taxpayers should not have to pay for this. Happy the Stepping Stone is open
10- MakeGuelphGreatAgain
Staff recommend historic bridge on Stone Road be saved, rehabilitated
17This is a perfect example of needing a strong mayor and council who can make difficult decisions and are not afraid to say no to special interest groups.
11- William the Great
OPINION: Construction is lifeline to downtown, not a death sentence
15Where have you been for the past 40 years?? Multiple attempts to "revitalize" the downtown have failed. Every new one is promised to be the magic bullet.No amount of aesthetics will resurrect the downtown. Rather actual living customers and merchants who are open when customers want...NOT the other way around.
12- Doug Frank
New Tim Hortons coming to just outside Guelph
21More bad coffee
4- 123abc
OPINION: Construction is lifeline to downtown, not a death sentence
16I think we can all live with a little construction to accommodate the needs of businesses and residences and facilitate growth. What will keep people away is drug addled people, staggering around yelling obscenities, or sprawled out in storefront vestibules. These people seem to be everywhere now and yet nothing seems to be done to deter them, arrest them? We have to address this problem or the downtown will be doomed even after the work is completed.
8- J Spence
Internal audit turns up improper buying for city fleet maintenance
20Is this the tip of the iceberg? Audit every single department and make the numbers public.
4- nick tasillo
Staff recommend historic bridge on Stone Road be saved, rehabilitated
14And who exactly are the special interest groups - the ones who care about our city? or the ones who care only about taxes?
9- SusanR
57 per cent of pothole damage claims denied by Guelph in last two years
20A lot of the roads in Guelph were brutal this winter. I feel the City is skipping out on their responsibility.
2- Reasonable Person
New Tim Hortons coming to just outside Guelph
16Waiting for Dunkin
6- FordTough
City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
21Whose going to tell him that taxpayers also pay for stepping stone?
1- usr_615468
Staff recommend historic bridge on Stone Road be saved, rehabilitated
11It's historic, yes, but it's also in an excellent spot to be an active transportation crossing. Especially after last year when we lost the other historic bridge just to the north. I'm looking forward to seeing this as part of a future extension of the RRT.
10- Matt Saunders
Staff recommend historic bridge on Stone Road be saved, rehabilitated
17I think its a great heritage piece but at more than double the price of replacement, (and likely much faster) we should just remove it. Save, some pieces like the date at the top and make a plaque with the story of the bridge. And showcase a couple artifacts.This decision should have come 10 years ago. The bridge is too far gone now.
4- B Rich
OPINION: Construction is lifeline to downtown, not a death sentence
2Kara Beitz for Mayor of Guelph !
18- Mike Cummings
OPINION: Construction is lifeline to downtown, not a death sentence
11Gross overstatement. Seeing something and being over run with it aren't the same. Say did you see the park down by the boathouse? It was over run and ruined by a huge flock of 4 geese. They are everywhere now, just laying across pathways, Better you stay away from there too.
9- usr_666780
OPINION: Construction is lifeline to downtown, not a death sentence
17Few bother to take a long view of the rise and fall of successive multiple downtowns. Demolition by fire and iffy construction historically removed dozens of buildings along Cork, Macdonell and Quebec. City maps from the mid-19thC on graphically show this decay/rejuvenation process. Alarmists pay no attention to this and cling to a static view of an "old" downtown that ignores both its past and possible futures. "Downtown 2026" is painfully shorton "destination" value. Any improvement depends on the "new bones" the holes, trenches and closed streets require.Current inconvenience is just a down payment on a far better downtown.
2- Splurfy
