From My Bottom Step

Top 10 London Projects in 2010

The upcoming construction season will be the largest in London’s history.

Stuff My Stocking With Sugru

As long as I’m in a DIY kind of a mood and stumbling across all kinds of neat things, here’s another one that I’ll bring to your attention – silly putty.

Well, it’s sort of like silly putty. Continue Reading

London Roadwork is Heating Up

What’s heating up underneath the roads in London? #LDN

Avoid This Intersection

The city will be doing sewer repairs at Commissioners/Wharncliffe on Thursday.

The Prohibitive Cost of Maintaining Too Many Roads

It’s too expensive to maintain our roads from property taxes, and the transfer payments from the province and the feds are also insufficient. The only rational answer is to severely curtail private auto use and urban sprawl.

Library Branch Renovations

If your falling-down local library branch gets an infusion of fixit dollars in the near future, you may have Councillor David Winninger to thank for it.

During today’s Committee of the Whole discussion about staff’s recommended projects for federal/provincial infrastructure dollars, item # 3.2 (”Life Cycle Upgrades to Government Buildings and Property – Library Branches”) failed to get approval.

Undeterred by that initial setback, the Councillor waited for all the other items … Continue Reading