We’re on vacation, and as we’re old fuckers we did a bus tour, we’ve been to Dublin and several towns in Ireland, Northern Ireland (shithole), Glasgow, Edinburgh and several towns and cities in Scotland, and we’re finishing it off in England. Here’s my wishful thinking; even though these places are supposedly in a recession and financially fucked, much like HRM, they have realized that tourists and visitors bring in much needed money and provide employment, and so they have made a great effort to make the downtown cores pleasant. Most cities and larger towns have downtown shopping areas that are traffic free, walker friendly and CLEAN! Perhaps His Worship could go on tour and see for himself how a city could be memorable in a pleasant way.
I fully realize I’ll hear the old refrain ‘if it’s so fucking great why don’t you stay there’ — like my posting says, it’s wishful thinking and I am looking forward to coming home, warts and all. —Basil Brush
This article appears in Jun 2-8, 2011.
In my cartoony cortex, I picture an airshot of a long line of cruise ship passengers snaking quickly through the downtown core once, then retreating back to the ship chanting ‘HupHupHup’. Then the ship speeds away to Sydney where they do the exact same thing.
Give your tour guide our best regards, Baz.
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Enjoy your trip and come home soon. Your wit is missed.
Do I hear a call for more pedestrian malls and traffic-free plazas and fewer roads in downtown Halifax?
If so, I couldn’t agree more!
Various cities I’ve visited in Europe, whatever other flaws they may have, definitely have this kind of thing figured out.
I WAS GONNA SAY, UNCLE IVAN, DID BAZ REALLY GO ON AN ANNAMCGOLDRICK TOUR?
I wanna go on one so badly!
LTWWB road trip?
Can you guys fucking imagine? A bitch bus tour with anna herself!
hey baz^^ if you have traveled at all you know zigaktly what he means…but those kountries are mukh older
Hey, Hub-Unit and I are going to Ireland within the next year or two so I’m in!
I laugh every time I see Anna’s 1940s grin on her logo – shit, she probably croaked years ago and her urn will be giving us the tour.
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I’d like to think he did, but probably not. >; ) Big yes on the LTWWB/Anna McGoldrick Blitzkreig tour of 2011.
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She’s probably not even Irish….(I’m thinking maybe Jewish?) Anna Goldstein – Oh Moy Gawd!
i kan see the tour. me and the littlest hobo have already kalled dibs on the driver’s seat
basil old son, it will never happen. as long as kelly can get eletcted and suck more cash in taxes, no way. we need to have what happpened in bridgetown happen here. they all need to go, and very soon. this city is on the verge of social and financial collapse. and if hizzoner stays one more term, then down the tubes we are headed.
Amalgamation is responsible. (and the totally stupid, we don’t collect garbage anymore policy, they just leave it in the streets, they could have at least notified us that the city will no longer be collecting garbage and to make arrangements with a private company.)
In this case, welcome back to the dead zone.
ANNA MCGOLDRICK i dunno who that is
…Any kind of shopping district that has low traffic and a minimal amount of people probably doesn’t have very reputable products…
“Amalgamation is responsible.”
Wrong.
here ya go donk http://photos-p.friendster.com/photos/10/3…
A face only a Blarney Stone would kiss.
Here you go Donk. Her shows get sold out all the time.
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The only way I will agree with spending taxpayer money to send Kelly and council to Europe is that the tickets are oneway. Anything more would be a waste.
The most beneficial move towards downtown would be to have all vacant lots developed (yes, THIS INCLUDES PARKING LOTS).
The idea that ample parking will turn downtown around is flawed and results in an American-style downtown that empties out by 5pm because there is simply nothing to do there and people find the parking too expensive or whatever. People should be *living*, working, and shopping there. This might also mean some buildings over four stories (gasp!)
But really, those fucking huge parking lots that line the waterfront are an embarrassed and should be developed ASAP with shops, restaurants, office space, and HOUSING.
Didn’t go with Anna – they couldn’t get her casket on the bus. Trafalgar Tours
We’re going to Leeds tomorrow, apparently they were hit hard by the recession, all the canal side mills renos have tanked as there isn’t anyone with £1 or 2 million in their arse pockets.
They were smart and saved all the old Victorian covered markets and made the small shops into ritzy boutiquey thingies (shopping isn’t my cuppa).
Enough of the travel crap – I am sincere when I say that I am looking forward to getting home but would love Kelly to get an epiphany, or an enema and realise that under his watch Halifax has turned into a dump.
Amen to that Brother Baz.