Finally, a much-belated report from the ACTBiPed meeting on February 7, 2018! For those of you who aren’t familiar, ACTBiPed is New Westminster’s Advisory Committee for Transit, Bicycles and Pedestrians. From the city’s description: The goal of the ACTBiPed committee is to help integrate walking, cycling and transit use into the transportation system that is… Continue reading ACTBiPed Meeting Report for February 7, 2018
When you register you child to be enrolled in the New Westminster School District, you need to supply some kind of proof that you actually live in New Westminster. This proof consists of two pieces of documentation. The first is one that shows some kind of tie to a piece of property located in New… Continue reading New West School District and the driver’s licence that isn’t ID
Yesterday a prominent New Westminster community member tweeted the following: #newwest Nothing worst than having people move to a city and try and rewrite its history. If you don’t like it #gobacktowhereyoucamefrom The tweet has since been deleted, but here’s a screenshot: It’s in reference to the recent suggested changes to the annual May Day… Continue reading “Go back to where you came from”
Our official ACTBiPed meeting for October 18, 2017 was cancelled and replaced with a projects sub-committee meeting. Some people (myself included!) like to get into the details of transportation system designs, so to keep regular meetings from getting bogged down, we have these sub-committee meetings. At the October 18, 2017 meeting we took a dive… Continue reading ACTBiPed Meeting Report for October 18, 2017
A couple of days ago the Queens Park Residents’ Association put out this plea for assistance on Facebook: At the AGM yesterday a couple of residents from Maple Manor Apartments (304 3rd Ave.) were invited to share their story. The apartment has new owners who have received a renovation permit and those still there will… Continue reading Renovictions and Airbnb in New Westminster
In New Westminster we have a May Day celebration that’s currently being put on by the school district. Elementary school children perform dances in Queen’s Park and a Royal Suite, made up of a boy and girl from each elementary school, is selected. Back in November 2015 the New Westminster Board of Education directed that… Continue reading Take May Day out of the schools and into the community
There are five houses near the corner of Ash Street and Gloucester Street in New Westminster. Four of them were built in 1900 or earlier, making this one of the oldest cluster of houses in the city. The fifth was built in 1971. From building details it appears that the five (and possibly one other)… Continue reading On Preserving Single-Family Homes in New Westminster
New Westminster has published a bunch of datasets under its Open Data portal, one of which is building age. A couple of months ago I grabbed the dataset, converted the SHP file (details forthcoming, mostly because I did it a couple of months ago and can’t remember how I did it) and followed Mapzen‘s One… Continue reading Mapping New Westminster – Building Ages
February 26, 1995 was my first Hip concert. I was going to UVic, the concert was at Memorial Arena. I went with my friends Shaun, Dave, and Preston. I wore a shirt and a sweatshirt and bought a Hip shirt. It was hot. Gord sweated more. August 31, 1997. I was a co-op student living… Continue reading Soundtrack
Okay, this report is three weeks late. Sorry! At the September 20, 2017 ACTBiPed meeting we talked mainly about snow and ice removal and a development on Royal Avenue that could have seen improvements to multi-use paths near Qayqayt Elementary but won’t. Let’s go! First, snow and ice removal. Last winter was pretty brutal on… Continue reading ACTBiPed Meeting Report for September 20, 2017
