I’m sorry about failing to provide timely curations this past week. But if you’re local, you might be aware that the City of Victoria wants to undertake a giant infrastructure project – I had written “is planning to undertake,” but realized that was the wrong word choice, since planning is hardly the right way to describe what is happening.

I’m talking about the intention to demolish Victoria’s Johnson Street Bridge.

In response, I’ve been very involved with creating a website called JohnsonStreetBridge DOT org, writing blog posts for it, helping with getting a letter out to Mayor and Council, and generally spreading the word about what we’re doing. Please check the links and get informed. This is a very big issue.

Also, take a look at Bernard von Schulmann’s blog posts, out today: The Johnson Street Bridge Replacement, Johnson Street Bridge – a bit more, and (my favorite, because it digs deep into the policy and funding issues) The bridge once more.

In fact, Bernard’s last post prompted me to leave a comment:

Months ago a friend asked, “Who is driving the planning bus at city hall?” He wondered whether it was the politicians or the staff.

Looking at the JSB proposal, I’m thinking, “They shot the driver and the bus is going over a cliff.” (And we – Victoria taxpayers – are sitting in it.)

Like I said, click the links – read and get informed.

I hope to be back at curations tomorrow…

(Posted by Yule Heibel)