What’s happening April 20, 2010:
Goodbye “uninviting traffic corridor”, hello, “world-class street” – in this case a three-kilometer stretch of Queens Quay. The $48 mil first phase of the project will start next year (leaving plenty of time for screwing with it) by converting 800m of four car lanes into two while adding a grassy dedicated streetcar lane, a wide pedestrian boulevard, and a bike lane. When the project is complete it will run from Spadina to Parliament and fill a huge hole for Martin Goodman Trail users.
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Why read about Eyjafjallajokull ash when The Big Picture, as usual, will blow your mind with photos of the Iceland volcano.
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Meanwhile, Slate tweeted about a calculation of yesterday’s total carbon dioxide emission savings thanks to all those grounded planes. Yes, savings, so if you thought ash clouds were toxic and choking us – here’s some perspective.
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No doubt Steve Jobs is blowing his top and spewing lava at an Apple software engineer who lost an advanced iPhone in a California bar. Gizmodo bought the found object for $5,000 and has all kinds of photos after tearing the thing apart before Apple lawyers sent a letter demanding its return.
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Finally, a nice time-lapse video on Torontoist shows just how few people care about the Blue Jays in this city. Well, at least how few are willing to part with money to see them at the Skydome (the building a few people call the Rogers Centre).[rssbreak]
