Pedestrian upgrades underway in the Old City Quarter

Pedestrian upgrades in the Old City Quarter are scheduled to be constructed this Fall. Improvements include curb extensions at Fitzwilliam Street & Selby Street and Fitzwilliam Street & Wesley Street. The improvements are intended to create a safer environment for pedestrians by making them more visible to motorists when they are waiting to cross the street. The project also includes installing a rain garden at the southeast corner of the Fitzwilliam Street and Selby Street intersection. Rain gardens are an engineered landscape feature which is designed to absorb and filter rain water through soil layers and plantings, thereby increasing infiltration of rain water into the ground. More at City of Nanaimo: Pedestrian Upgrades underway in the Old City Quarter

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Surface parking lots least productive use of land and harmful to walkable, sociable urban neighbourhoods.

This strategic gateway to the #Nanaimo Old City at Fitz and Selby is City owned and used for surface parking. On any...
Posted by Nanaimo Commons on Sunday, July 19, 2015

Downtown #Nanaimo surface parking lots occupy about 35-40% of available land. If this is the lands highest and best use, returning maximum ROI, we're in trouble.
Posted by Nanaimo Commons on Sunday, July 19, 2015

Surface parking lots are the least productive use of land and harmful to walkable, sociable urban neighbourhoods. @Bill_McKay11 @Rearrang3d

— NanaimoCommons (@NanaimoCommons) July 19, 2015

@NanaimoCommons @Bill_McKay11 @Rearrang3d @acmefoodco Aerial photos are truth-tellers about our urban environments.

— Victoria Placemaking (@VicPlacemaking) July 19, 2015

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Downtown surface parking doesn't leave much actual city

Whoa. Doesn't leave much actual city. RT @HenryGrabar Surface parking in downtown Little Rock: pic.twitter.com/bQVNjRs7lg
— Taras Grescoe (@grescoe) November 17, 2014

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Island Corridor Foundation / VIA Rail agreement "for all intents and purposes concluded"

Post by Island Corridor Foundation.

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#Nanaimo @OldCityQuarter

Post by Old City Quarter.

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