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Prince Rupert Regional Information
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Local
Transit fares increase July 2nd – but it could have been worse ---
Here I would like to contrast how the fare increase was handled in Terrace
versus Rupert --- their Council balked at the increases --- appears they had
a meeting with BC Transit Regional Transit Mangers Dixon Nuber and Kevin
Shubert at Committee of Whole meeting ---See
their minutes See
BC Transit
locally with map routes etc |
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Face to face
meeting with explanations |
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Contrast
to the way Rupert handled the situation with CFO providing all the ‘info’ etc
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And
Terrace Council wanted a better look at the services provided – future
increase etc --- nada from Rupert – I note in passing that Port Edward has
not increased their ticket prices – but don’t rely upon this coming up before our City Council with Bedard etc
there |
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I
see the ‘Revitalization’ plan back on agenda – not yet online so can’t
comment --- but see this excellent discussion from Prince George Council
where a consultant hired for overview of downtown revitalization (PDF report
link
from this PG page) |
Council
Meeting Tuesday |
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Of
course technically should have been held Monday as per the schedule on City’s
web site |
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End of an
Era?? |
Black Press
tightens grip on local newspapers --- with PRDN etc |
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Time
will tell --- the Northernview has
a short story And Georgia
Strait gives more of the provincial overview with 80 ‘titles’ owned in BC
--- but the Times Colonist
has more info – including ‘unsure’ as yet if some will be shut down ----(why
else would you buy the competition??) |
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Good to see
local store opening |
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Aimed
at kids – but not sure how much disposable income they will have --- would
rather see more stuff available at Civic Center for kids in summer – time
will tell – but then if they were City employees they could get almost free
access ($10/ month taken off pay check) --- that’s the way things work in PR ---
staff runs the show and we pay the bills |
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Skeena River peaked
May 29th while Fraser River peaked at 2nd lowest
level in recorded history |
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Blame
it on last winter’s El Nino – where precipitation came as rain not snow ---
thus ‘robbing’ the summer of the water from slow melt on mountains |
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These are from
Feds province site --- I have numbered the ‘rain events’ and one can see them
‘echoed throughout the Skeena watershed |
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Note
especially how 2009 peak flow was ‘pointed’ --- while 2010 peak flows
earlier, smaller and flatter |
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Note
the January rain event (3 on graphs) actually higher than the ‘spring
melt’ event in June for the Bulkley River -- |
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Excellent entry point to
River flow data |
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See
the River Data site --- and perhaps this link will lead to the Map
view to select reporting stations (as left) |
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Broken booze bottle
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Commentary
of Rupert Streets |
Created by LG on 5/7/2010
Last updated on Monday, July 05, 2010