On Sunday, another vehicle was spotted going the wrong way, heading downtown on Colborne Street midday. Reports go over the closed circuit radio and on twitter. Debate over two way streets downtown ensues. But one thing comes quite clear to the casual eye looking down both Colborne and Dalhousie streets.
If you didn’t already know they were one way, you will find it hard to be redirected if you make a wrong turn. Yes, there are two black and white arrows showing you the direction of traffic. There are no turning signs, albeit the regular size, not oversized.
In fact, if you look at this pic of Clarence and Colborne, if you make a wrong turn, such as the person Sunday did, you will not encounter a “Wrong Way” sign until a full block ahead, on Charlotte Street. By that time, traffic will already be ascending upon you and trouble is coming.
The real cheap and easy answer is to install “Wrong Way” signs downtown. Clear markings. We already do this on William and Albion Streets, on almost every corner. Hamilton has their downtown clearly marked as well. The signs are not expensive, definitely cheaper than re-aligning the traffic downtown.
With tourist traffic coming from the casino, and Laurier students moving back in this fall from around the province, why don’t we take this simple, economical, and pain free way of fixing this issue.Let’s make sure newcomers to the city, or even residents who have made a turning mistake, have a well marked warning to prevent a serious collision downtown.
It’s absolutely ridiculous that all Mayor Chris Friel can say is “poor Brantford might get it’s name muddied” cause of Hockeyfest. You think? Since the mayor withdrew support of Hockeyfest for 2012, he should have at least given moral support and set some expectations regarding security. Maybe he should have had someone from Brantford Police and Brantford Fire liasing with the organisers of Hockeyfest? Maybe months, if not weeks from the event?
Instead we get ass covering and “it wasn’t me, it was them” blame game. Good on you guys. So now over 30,000 people from all over Ontario and the US may not be able to enjoy acts like Creed, The Trews, Weezer, Mariana’s Trench, and Down with Webster among others.
Shame not only on organisers, but on Chris Friel, shame on Brantford Police, shame on council, and shame on the Grand River Conservation Authority. You should have helped not turn this into the giant boondoggle it is going to be. Not exactly Brantastic.
I am absolutely livid at the crappy customer service I got today at the place ironically named “Customer Service” at Walmart in Brantford today.
Here’s the back story. My boss, who is a woman, asked me to exchange two pairs of pants for her, as they were not the right size. Simple enough, right? An exchange is easy enough, it doesn’t cost Walmart anything, and I won’t have to feel like I’m one of those creeps that routinely try to get refunds all the time on everything (Anyone who has worked in department store retail knows who I’m talking about there).
So I come in and wait in line. Line isn’t long. Great! I should be in and out in no time. It gets to my turn. I come up, bag in hand, with receipt. I mention casually that these pants aren’t in the size she would like and that I’d like to exchange for a different size. The lady at customer service starts processing a refund.
I try to stop her. “No, I just want an exchange in a different size!” I said. “Well, you can go get them and they’ll ring you through.” She said. “But I don’t know what style they are or anything!” I tried to reason with her. “There’s a couple girls in fashion I think that might be able to help you.” No budging. She processes the refund. this woman had at least 10 years of service (I’m sure that’s what her badge said) and knew I wasn’t interested in looking for pants. Doesn’t matter.
Now this is where I’m livid. While I’m a dude that has no problem picking up stuff for women; I’m really irritated by this. This wasn’t some great thing I was asking of her. I wanted someone to get the correct size of pants! I don’t want to be looking around aimlessly in the women’s section of fashion looking for pants that I didn’t get more than a 10 second glimpse at in hopes of “finding some” in the right size. Not to mention, how the hell are these girls going to help me find “some black pants” in another size if I don’t know what they are? I’m not going to look like an idiot trying to find girl pants in the store.
Let’s add the fact that they are under construction, and nothing is in it’s correct place. So even if I knew what type of pants they were, how the hell am I going to logically go and look for them? The right answer is to say “I’ll have someone bring those up in the size you want. It’ll be two minutes.”
Now I have left absolutely raving mad (you can tell I’ve calmed down some now) and have lost what little respect I was gaining for Brantford Walmart. As it is – if I want something from a Walmart I go out of Brantford because the store is either out of stock or the service is poor. Now another reason why this Walmart blows.
Get your fucking act together Brantford Walmart, or your store isn’t going to do any better post-reno once Target comes in. Just saying. Feel free to add your Walmart Brantford hell stories in the comment section.
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And for that reason, I will not be supporting you. As the closest government MPP to Caledonia, and representing a riding that is also in sight of the illegal native occupations, have you done ANYTHING for the rule of law in Ontario? No, you have done nothing. Did you help Caledonians who were traumatized, arrested without lawful reasons by the Ontario Provincial Police, intimidated by native terrorists for years, other than to hand them a cheque right before the writ was dropped? No.
Did you vote to increase my taxes? Yes. Many times. Did my health care tax help out when I had to wait with my girlfriend in the Brantford General Hospital for nearly 12 hours, before she was admitted? That same day, another gentleman had to wait til the next morning after already waiting 12 hours. Disgraceful.
How many jobs have LEFT Brantford and Brant since you’ve been in office? Where are all the factories that once flourished in this city? Where are all these green jobs, how come none of them came to Brantford? Why am I paying an extra 10 – 15 cents a litre for gas? An extra tax on my electricity bill? Where have you been for us on that one?
Sorry, Dave, I will not be supporting another four years of meandering, wasteful, government spending. I will not be supporting a green energy initiative that is keeping major employers from coming here, for fear their hydro bills are going to go through the roof. I will not be supporting McGuinty’s continued need to balloon our deficit so my kids will have to pay it for me.
It’s more than politics for me, Dave Levac. And that means you do not get this vote. Michael St Amant and Tim Hudak’s Conservatives can clean the government up, and I can trust them to keep taxes low, and actually enforce the rule of law.
Well, I’ve made the move, and the station(s) have come with me. Hello Brantford! I’ve moved from a town of 5000 people to a city with hookers on Market Street, Drunks who crash their bikes into parked cars (yes that happened to me), and firetrucks wailing on the half hour. Awesome!
But alas, Brantford isn’t as bad as I used to make it out to be. I remember posting on Facebook once that Brantford was gay, only to get flak from some in the gay community that Brantford wasn’t good enough to join those ranks. Okay!
At any rate, up until about a week ago I didn’t even know there were not just two, but three radio stations in this town. Not only do you have Yawnfest Vinyl 92, and whatever it is 1380, there’s a Power 93.9. Which I guess is cool if you want to hear a lot about JeeBus, otherwise not so cool.
So, that being said, I think it’s high time for Generation Zel! to piss off some of the locals. So, starting in the next week, Generation Zel! Radio will be back on air, with DJ Roby coming back, talk of Dave and Derek coming back as well, and other shows like MixGiselle, Frank Radio, and the like. Not to mention I’m going to post a bunch more, cause I dont know much about this city but I feel the need to pick on it. Enjoy!
I just read an article from Salon.com where they explore the virtues of “a blow job beats no job.” Essentially, out of work middle class women are turning to adult things on Craig’s list or the internet in order to make their ends meet. Is the economy in the US that bad? I can’t imagine, being a woman, having to make that decision… “Do I flip burgers or flip my cell phone and answer this call for a bj?”
Here’s the article, feel free to discuss.
It was reported this morning that up to 400 people from Nanticoke’s Lake Erie Steel received their layoff notices, as parent company US Steel continues to weather the economic downturn. The company said last week that it will be temporarily idling most of its operations at its Hamilton and Lake Erie Works facilities and laying off 15 hundred workers.
Representatives of US Steel are assuring they will honour their pension obligations amidst layoffs at two area plants. The comment came after a lengthy meeting with Hamilton’s mayor earlier this week. The company also assured the mayor they were very much invested in the area and will return when the market picks back up.
