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Prince Rupert Regional Information
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Rupert
visions water and land |
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View from hospital area town |
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Deficits
Airport Ferry 915T and Transit 239T (2009)
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The Problem |
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Council
increased fees for both Ferry and City
busses –A note in the 2009 Audit led me on search of Federal & BC funding
sources |
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‘The Federal Government has committed
to transfer gas tax revenue to local governments to support capital projects
which will promote increased transit use and support service expansion.--
---capture funding for transit projects that are eligible under the terms of
the Public Transit Agreement funding.’ |
Public
Funding for Transit |
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Like the Gas Tax
refund to municipalities (see my previous with
links) these $$ have to be used for acceptable projects --- one wonders
about priorities: waterfront versus making Transit more available etc –
rather than raising transit fees which will (I predict) drive down usage)---
(ridership decreased 5% after
last increase) |
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See my previous for discussion above |
Class
politics? |
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While
Rupert had one of the lowest bus fares and highest ridership in BC --- in the
last planning document available on BC
Transit web site – Rupert had the highest cost recovery of any
municipality (see table below) |
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Need
info like this to make informed discussions/ decisions But
don’t hold your breath --- Top Secret stuff |
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Glitzy
Brochures etc on BC Transit
Strategic Plan pages – with links – more later |
While
the BC Transit Public Relations look good – I see little useful information –
presumably these are the meetings the Treasurer Dan Rodin attended and
brought back the table of needed tax increases given above
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Note the dandelions
seeding and on pause during wet weather etc (see
here for Season and links |
Beautiful
sunset Tuesday night |
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From
Long-Term Wastewater Treatment
Effectiveness of a Northern Wisconsin Peatland --Dale S. Nichols* and Dale A.
Higgins More later – especially
on who pays (planning grant was ‘cost sharing’ from Province – which ‘pocket’
the matching grant $$ came from at SQCRD is still to be determined--- I bet
Rupert paid most of it) |
Update on
using Peatlands for sewage treatment |
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I have previously argued that the SQCRD study from AECOM used dubious logic to get the desired result – thus most the papers cited etc deal with Wetlands and not specifically Peatlands (marshes etc can be extremely productive, while peatlands are so ‘inert’ that mummies centuries old often found etc) --- I followed up on Nichols and Higgins (2000) study where the runoff from sewage treatment actually put into a bog (paper cited in study --- and available online as PDF) –Note all the solids have been settled out and only the waste water being put into bog (Unlike project in Dodge Cove/ Oona River where apparently piped from secondary treatment – thus including solids?) Even under these
conditions the authors concluded: ‘Small peatlands such as this one seem
poor, --candidates for use as tertiary treatment systems. |
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We See Many
of the street planters are both ‘blooming’ and getting volunteer grooming |
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While
some of these potted trees have leafed out as left – others have yet to show
any leaves |
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Above
is new grass seed from a recent city works project – amazing what some
nutrients (fertilizer) will do |
I hear the Community
Garden will bring in a truck load of soil from Terrace to fill these boxes –
the old ball field did not look too useful as garden soil |
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We’ll see |
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A
local ‘hotel’ has done some yard work – all those concrete pillars are now sitting
on City property – I bet they remain well into the future |
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So Seasonal
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The falling
of all those ornamental apple and cherry flowers with the recent rain –
carpets the street with petals – and happens every year – for a few short days
in late spring |
Created by LG on 19/5/2010
Last updated on Wednesday, May 19, 2010