[Newsbot]

Title: After 88 years, Victoria's Blue Bridge comes down
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2012-02-26 17:41:56
Canadian

[QBall]

While it's a shame to see such a local icon come down it is a bridge, and bridges don't last forever.

[BartSimpson]

What a bloody shame! It's more the loss because the E&N doesn't come into the downtown anymore. Not a big deal to a lot of people, I know, but to tourists it was quite handy to be able to take that train from Nanaimo right up to the Bastion Square area.

[Gunnair]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

What a bloody shame! It's more the loss because the E&N doesn't come into the downtown anymore. Not a big deal to a lot of people, I know, but to tourists it was quite handy to be able to take that train from Nanaimo right up to the Bastion Square area.

Victoria makes a habit out of short sighted decisions.

[QBall]

I imagine traffic on the Bay St is going to become nuts.

[BartSimpson]

This illustrates the dismissive contempt for the E&N that I've observed in Vic for a long time. It galls me that decisions like this will eventually put the E&N out of business and then Vic, the province, and Ottawa will spend billions to replace it with light rail.

[2Cdo]

Spent many an early morning running across that bridge for PT. Spent many Monday mornings leaving a weekends worth of booze and burritos in the water below!

[Freakinoldguy]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

What a bloody shame! It's more the loss because the E&N doesn't come into the downtown anymore. Not a big deal to a lot of people, I know, but to tourists it was quite handy to be able to take that train from Nanaimo right up to the Bastion Square area.

There is no need for the E&N to run into downtown Victoria, since it doesn't have a passanger service and isn't likely to ever get one back.

So, sad as it is the Blue Bridge is comming down it's now, nothing more than a costly reminder of a promise made to Vancouver Island about it's future in Canada.

[Freakinoldguy]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

Spent many an early morning running across that bridge for PT. Spent many Monday mornings leaving a weekends worth of booze and burritos in the water below!

Maybe that was you I kept passing on my way back to the ship from Big Bad Johns.

[Gunnair]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

This illustrates the dismissive contempt for the E&N that I've observed in Vic for a long time. It galls me that decisions like this will eventually put the E&N out of business and then Vic, the province, and Ottawa will spend billions to replace it with light rail.

The Feds just denied their share to bring up the E&N.

Bullshit.

[2Cdo]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

2Cdo 2Cdo:

Spent many an early morning running across that bridge for PT. Spent many Monday mornings leaving a weekends worth of booze and burritos in the water below!

Maybe that was you I kept passing on my way back to the ship from Big Bad Johns.

Never a big fan of The Old Forge. Preferred live music at the Waterfront Cabaret or that little place on Bastion Square!

[Gunnair]

Didn't you hang around Popeyes?

[GreenTiger]

It's sad to see a piece of history like that be demolished. I see a lot of that locally here. Usually short sighted decisions by people of limited imagination.

[Hyack]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

2Cdo 2Cdo:

Spent many an early morning running across that bridge for PT. Spent many Monday mornings leaving a weekends worth of booze and burritos in the water below!

Maybe that was you I kept passing on my way back to the ship from Big Bad
Johns.

Still dribbling peanut shells???

[Freakinoldguy]

Hyack Hyack:

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

2Cdo 2Cdo:

Spent many an early morning running across that bridge for PT. Spent many Monday mornings leaving a weekends worth of booze and burritos in the water below!

Maybe that was you I kept passing on my way back to the ship from Big Bad
Johns.

Still dribbling peanut shells???

Till I got to the doc it wasn't just the peanut shells I was dribbling.