Cool I'm first. I was telling a friend about this site. Oh yeah I get into some pretty good spitting matches. But if ya really want to make it count vote and sit in on a city counsel meeting. Got to do that yet.

Red Friday today....
Wear red and show your support for our troops.

Bicyclists....when there is a bike lane would your please use it...the other lanes are for vehicles and the sidewalk is for people to walk on..

Drivers...that little stick on the side of your stering column is called a turn signal switch...would be nice if you used it when changing lanes and turning.

Have a grat day all.

I haven't been downtown in a while. Has anyone noticed if its cleaner since they hired the cleaning crews?

While travelling to White Rock last weekend I Could not help but notice the 8 work zones along the way were all 80kph in stead of the 50 zones we have here. When there working it is either 50 or 60kph but when they are finished for the day or the weekend they have signs the just flip over to make it 80kph. Now in Prince George we just leave our work zones at 50 so the police can write very expensive tickets all night long. The Husky Hill when they are not working is the same as it was to start with with a speed of 90kph. It can be very frustating to have to do 50kph for 5kms for no reason than to let the police make money for the city.

So the Mayor wants a restuarant on top of connaught hill? I don't think that wouldn't be a bad idea really!

I personally would like to see a Imax theatre downtown,they seem to be very popular with people nowadays...just my opinion.

Longnecks

I have often wondered the same thing, the only answer I have gotten is that they tend to leave unfinished drop zones at the edge of the road making it unsafe for higher speeds. (the areas where they are building up new lanes and are not yet up to grade)

My comment to that was "every highway I have been on has unfinished drop zones, we just call them ditches"

jonnypg,

Tell Mr Rogers to open his wallet and build one, oh wait, Dan is still living payday to payday, he doesnt have his own wallet.

Im sure he will do well in the winter when they close the road. The grade on that road would be a wonderful experience for many vehicles in the winter.

Stompin,

Just liked his idea of a restuarant on top the hill thats all! he personally doesn't have to build it,he just gives the okay to have one built!lots of people go up there and eat.I personally think to be able to order food up there would be neat!

And where not the only place that has hills!

Besides does it have to be even open in the winter!

jonny,

yeah your right, he gets paid to have an opinion, I have to take more time to seperate Daper Dan the person from Daper Dan the mayor.

Dont get me wrong stompin, I never cared for our Mayor from day one!

To Longnecks1, 5 km at 50 km/h = 6 minutes, 5km at 80 km/h = 3 minutes 45 seconds. Leave 2 minutes and 15 seconds earlier and you'll arrive at your destination at the same time, safe and sound.

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I think Dan, blew that one. If I was in the chair, I would have told the troop. Lets focus, focus, focus. Lets get the downtown revitalized first. Lets get our vision built first.... than lets do the restaurant on the hill. But first this is what we have to do, reclaim our downtown.

Thus now, the media is running with the restaurant idea, thus undermining the focus. Sorry, Dan, your not mentally strong enough to lead this group.

BCRacer, I have to agree with your comments, it seems a lot of people think those flashing amber lights on the corners of their vehicle are just fashion accessories.

We do have so few bike lanes, and I could definitely see why cyclists don’t realize there actually is one on the side of the road. The first 5 years I was in Prince George, I did not have a car and rode my bike pretty much everywhere, in the winter I walked, in both seasons I took cabs home after grocery shopping. I never found the transit system useful to go anywhere, I don’t know if it has improved much in the last 15 years, but of the 3 cities I had lived in during my life, this is the only one that broke me down to buying a car.

But you forgot to mention stop signs, although they hang around on corners like hookers, you are actually suppose to look for them, and stop, as opposed to looking the other way and keeping going.

I the restaurant idea, would be a cool place for date night.

OK, so my kid's school is one of the many slated for closure. I've accepted that; the numbers left no other decision as far as I'm concerned. I will never forget the lack of respect shown by the trustees when they held their alleged "discussions" but that's another story. Something to bring up when they run for re-election.

Anyhow, we plan our schedules around the calendar supplied by the school; which days we need to find daycare, which days we need to book off as vacation, etc. etc. etc. It's not always easy to juggle schedules around but thankfully they gave us the year's schedule last September so it's been a lot easier then it could have been. I found out yesterday however, that the last day of school for my kid's school has changed from June 29th to June 28th. That's odd I thought. Odd and rather inconvenient for myself and I'd guess a lot of other people. I sent an email asking why the change and was informed that since the school was slated for closure the board is permitting them to close a day early so that they can pack it up. Let me repeat that, the school is closing a day early so that they can pack it up. The place is closing permanently and they need an extra day to pack it up? Pardon? Did someone actually say that?

This school board's priorities are whacked. Of course these are the same people who voted to keep spending 57,000 dollars a year to bus 3 kids to Giscome instead of giving the parents 25 bucks a day to get the kids to school (or closer to school) themselves.

If they are going to serve food at the park...at least do something SMART and not make it a permanent structure(sp)
check out the link
http://www.greendiary.com/entry/muvbox-shipping-container-restaurant-inspires/

Just once I'd love to see a cyclist pulled over for holding up traffic when there is a perfectly viable bike lane available for use. There is one person who rides down University Hill regularly and does not use the bike lane. He is in the right hand driving lane, making everyone else change lanes to go around him. Several times I have witnessed near accidents because of this clown. He doesn't care, actually flips the driver's the bird when they honk at him. Same thing along Ospika Blvd. I was driving the other evening when I came upon 2 cyclists, a man and a woman, woman was in the bike lane, the man, several yards in front of her was in the driving lane. I was unable to change lanes at the time, so I was driving behind him for about 15 seconds and he refused to move over. So, cyclists, use the friggen bike lanes, they are there for YOU!

I agree and I am a cyclist. Use hand signals as well. I don't see that enough myself. Hey I move at a good 18 to 22 miles an hour. Sometimes just about as fast as the cars so I bare in mind. I can't win no contest. Take care out there.

If I was the Keg and I was putting in Major upgrades to my Restaurant at the Bottom of Connaught Hill and the Mayor was advocating someone putting in a Restaurant on the top of the hill, I would suggest he shut up, and get on with the business of running the City.

Leave business to business.

Speaking of cyclists, whoever you are wearing the pretty tights on your road bike that cruises down Ospika every morning. Please stop riding on the white line. It's illegal and dangerous. You have come close many times to being hit with someones mirror as they pass by you and you are riding on the line. Move the HE double hockey sticks over.

Maybe Dan Rogers can just move the hotel he bought up top of connaught? Be a nice view

Besides some cyclists who won't move over, how about runners. What made you so special, its just running.

Annual Report for 2009 PG Airport Authority.

PG Airport Authoriy dipped into its Airport Improvement Fees for #350,000.00 to make ends meet. Thats an improvement over 2008 when the PGAA finished with a $1.15 Million dollar deficit, but also the third year in a row that the airports operations ended up in the red and has been forced to take the step. The $15 fee is supposed to be collected from passengers to pay for capital improvements.

John Gibson Chief Executive Officer said one way to gain break-even status is to attract four cargo carrying flights a week but admitted work still needs to be done to reach that point.

Joni Mitchell
"Don't it seem to go
That you don't know what you got till its gone.
Pave paradise and put up a parking lot."

Dumb idea Dan, dig up a big piece of lawn, cut down some beautiful trees, take half of the "JEWEL" of the City and build a "Greasy Spoon" and a big ugly blacktop parking lot!

Think "On top of the Cut Banks if you want a view."

Maybee the bikers need the bike lane to be painted with large letters...BIKE LANE... every 100 feet or so, it would give our city crews something to do while they lean on thier shovels.

Dear Superheated, your probably the one that takes the next 3km to get back up to speed also. Personally I've got things to do other that moving around in slow motion.
And I see a lot of other people do also, as they are going 70 or 80km through there.
It's a setup for police to give tickets, and I hope your proud to be in the only city that does that with work zones. Acttually it really pi___s me off that our Mayor and city is that hard up, and don't care a hoot for the people, or making it easier for them....which I would say 80% of the people that have to use it on a regular bases.

I have walked on all the trails going up connaught hill, theres people living in the bushes during the summer...Maybee they could provide valet parking, or do your windows while u wait, or ask u for spare change as you go in and out of Rogers Restaurante...Give your head a shake...Want a view and good clientelle?
A university resaurant would be nice.

I have walked on all the trails going up connaught hill, theres people living in the bushes during the summer...Maybee they could provide valet parking, or do your windows while u wait, or ask u for spare change as you go in and out of Rogers Restaurante...Give your head a shake...Want a view and good clientelle?
A university resaurant would be nice.

Happy Friday All!!

My rant for today is;

I don't know about everyone else, but I suspect I'll get a lot of people agreeing with me that the average working Canadian does not get to see enough of their own paycheques.

When I consider what I pay in income tax each year, plus deductions for EI and CP (which I may never get to use), plus property taxes, plus consumer taxes on virtually everything I have to buy, plus fees for licensees and vehicle registration, plus insurance for home and auto, plus daycare expenses plus additional fees for virtually every service provided by municipal or provincial governments... what's left?
Not much.
And they all still want more.

what about a restaurant on the river? or a floating one? yah yah, summer only

Thank you to those who think Dan Rogers is a buffoon for making the comment about a restaurant on Connaught Hill. Someone else probably said it and then Dan quickly took the credit for it, without much forethought. Also "hespoke", you are correct - focus, focus, focus. Dan seems to be all over the map, a sign of someone out of control.

"I don't know about everyone else, but I suspect I'll get a lot of people agreeing with me that the average working Canadian does not get to see enough of their own paycheques>"

You may be right.

The only way to solve that is to remove all government programs and make every single thing user pay. No more subisidzing drivers, bus riders, airplane flyers (oops, I guess they may actually not be subisdized all that much compared to the other types of travellers/commuters), sick people, healthy people, old people, yougn people, olympians, industry, business, housing, people with nervous ticks, people who want brith certificates, passports, enter the country, leave the country, swim, play hockey when they are 5 and when they are 20+ and expect people to dish out tons of money to actually go and see them.

I mean, it does not stop at taxation. Hockey used to be a fun sport that players did nto get to become millionaires almost overnight, Neither did baseball players, rock stars ... I mean they were all ordinary people who just had a different job than you or I did.

We are being taxed to death, we are being robbed blind through paying for commercials everytime we buy groceries at Save-On or Superstore.

Boycot the employers who give us the money in the first place. :-)

Keep the money moving folks, just keep it moving. You'll kill it all if you hoard it in the bread box .... oops... no one has such things anymore .....LOL

Restaurant on Connaught hill? Look at the architectural competition for the "cultural centre" concept where the library is and the civic centre and the art gallery. The winning design, which got the architect the commission to design the library, had a pedestrian bridge across Patricia from the podium (which has never been used for the purpose intended because often such ideas are quickly lost) to the hill, with a funicular going up the hill to the park and a restaurant st the top.

Wanna make a tourist attraction, wanna make the park accessible to people in the donwtown, then carry that through.

Did that come out of SGOG. Of course not. That was an old idea. Everything old has to be discarded because those people were stupid. Only the people working on renewal now are smart.

That is the way of the world, isn't it? It certainly is around this town.

"Now in Prince George we just leave our work zones at 50 so the police can write very expensive tickets all night long."

It doesn't bother me very much. I just set the cruise control at 50 until the signs say: Resume Speed. Workzone Ends.

Tailgaters bother me not a bit. Nobody can coerce me into going faster and breaking the law...I don't think they would volunteer to pay my speeding ticket, double the fine in a workzone.

It's not a big deal to slow down for a few kilometers.

Live and let live. Relax. Leave a few minutes earlier.

Oh ... that was 1980, give or take a year.

30 years and waiting. Is it any wonder nothing ever happens here? Who took that "vision" forward? No one! Well, actually I guess I did and I hang it out on occasions such as this as a prime example of a good idea that was never acted on.

Riverfront? In the curve of Queensway as it approaches the Fraser River Bridge near HWY97 a twin tower apartment was proposed in the mid 1970s which would have had a lobby overlooking the river. There was also a restaurant proposed in that same bend, adjacent to that property. A beautiful spot, especially at sunset with the orange of the sun painting the cutbanks across the river.

We have some beautiful spots here along the river. That is one of them.

Our local newspaper has this "get a free paper on Thursday blitz" stuffed with all the flyers and I assume the point is to encourage you or entice you to subscribe to the paper.
Not working so well in the Foothills area when the Thursday newspaper shows up FRIDAY morning in your mailbox.All it is to me now is more crap for the recycle box and old news.Don't bother!

I too hate the workzones where the speed limit signs get left up for weeks after the work is done. Or, the fact that the signs are up and noone's there for the day. I often wonder if people would slow down or be more cautious when they saw a sign saying that there was being work done if someone was actually working there.

Are there any conflicts of interest that anyone can think of in the SD57 administration??...

Wonder if Danny boy will franchise his restaurant? Prerequisite is you need a hill to build on.
Maybe Dan will get a job serving in the restaurant on the hill after the next civic election. He can then look down at all the progress being made revitalizing downtown.

Greasy spoon atop Connaught Hill? Maybe a cheapo deal if the restaurant can keep the two outhouses up there. No handicap john there. Bummer. I say level Connaught Hill and truck it to the trailer park below the cemetery. Build it up so there isn't a flood plain there anymore and then build homes for the homeless where Connaught Hill was. Sunshine through the library windows will be an added bonus. Lessen their heating bill and help the environment.

"Are there any conflicts of interest that anyone can think of in the SD57 administration??..."

Yes ..... I can think of some.

IMO says..."And they all still want more"

Yessir they do. Politicians, lawyers and corporations have it set up that way.

Welcome to earth!

Hey all you anti cyclists, try riding in our pedals for a day. The roads here Suck ( with a capital S)! The shoulders don't get resurfaced like the car lanes and many are in very dangerous conditions for a road bike. The debris in the bike lanes or road shoulders is terrible, large stones, glass, metal, road materials, car parts, garbage. They all add to the poor conditions and safety risk. And add to the fact there are hardly any bike lanes or paths in the city anyways, we have to find roads with enough shoulder to ride safely. But the icing on the cake is the ignorant, careless, life endangering car drivers that for what ever reasons refuse to share the road in a responsible manner and respect the rights of others on the road. Just so you don't think I'm an anti car type I drive and pay more fuel taxes than most of you, and am sorely dissapointed with the state of our roads for both cars and bikes. I obey the rules of the road and respect the car traffic, and hate riders that wreck that relationship. It's just all these things take away from having a positive experience on hte road.

I would like this city to get rid of school zone signs where there are no schools. I also think the traffic light atop the hill going east should be shut down as was the plan when it was first installed. It was a temporary light when the overpass was being built out at the BCR industrial site. Now it is a light and reduced speed zone for revenue reasons only. There is not enough traffic on that road or the highway to warrant the existing situation.

dcfluid, There is rarely a day goes by when your driving or riding is going to be only positive. There are quite a few negatives every day. No way around it.

harbinger--good idea to level the hill. The road below it might thaw before May 1st.

Levelling Connaught Hill would be interesting to consider. it would give us a large park downtown, but we would no longer have a view from the top, which is one of its major attractions.

I think we should improve the way up the hill as well as improve the view to the north frm the top. Thin out some of the trees to start with to provide a view through them. The work on a serpentine, terraced path up the hill similar to the one in Lichtenstein, with benches to rest and enjoy the view on the way up and down. Finally, eventually provide a funicular or even a cheaper covered chairlift to start.

It will definitely be a tourist attaction.