Ahhh yes, decided to blog today because I have, yet again, officially named today “slack day”. Since my report i’m working on at work has passed the first milestone. I’m researching and analysing the the nature of the Planning co-op jobs and the qualifications necessary to filfil job requirements. It’s funny, it’s actually a report I enjoy writing— not like those Planning Policy reports we wrote in PLAN103. AH!
This entry is awfully long— i need to stop writing long entries. So i’ve anchored the entry:

• Christopher Hume (and Transit)
  
• Britney Spears (and Skanks)
  

Mr. Hume, my hero
So yes, I’m in love with Christopher Hume— the Urban Issues columnist for the star. His articles are always enlightening and he really understands the needs for cities, especially neglected Toronto. :( Today he writes about the Queensway streetcar line which was proposed back in 1969, but has still not materialized.

Did you know that Toronto once used to be the primary visionary model for urban planning in North America? and of course that all changed with dismal transit funding in the past decades— now it’s Portland. Anyways, my point is again- I love Christopher Hume, you can see his articles here.

Speaking of public transit, Toronto is the home of a gizillion “ghost” subway tunnels, tunnels that were constructed but never completed. The Queen Street Subway line is one example— There are actually remnants of tunnels still existing today. Though the Queen Street subway would be really cool and ease the lack of transit priority on the streetcar line, I don’t suggest its reconstruction—it is already a well represented area.

Also, did you know that there’s an abandoned subway station under the Bay Station? Called Lower Bay Station, tho the concept sounds really appealing— it was closed after just months of operation back in the 60s. Bay Lower acted as a station that integrating the Bloor-Danforth Line to the Yonge Line— so that essentially, you can take a train on the Danforth Line and end up at Union Station without getting off the train! Cool or what!?! But of course, this causes major logistical problems.

That’s why you see those “NEXT TRAIN” signs in subways— that seems somewhat useless nowadays. Here’s some articles on Bay Lower: here, and here
Now the subway is used in a lot of films :D.

AHHHH! I lust for this stuff!

Mmmmmmmmmm Britney:
I went to see Britney Spears with John last Saturday! WOO! She was great and sexy as usual! Though not as good as her last concert. Called the “Onyx Hotel Tour” (whoring it away already, lol), she really skank’s it up in this one. But that’s okay, I like sluts.

There were five different themes, each portrayed as if she was at a different “hotel”: (by the way, I made up these hotel names :D) I hope I remember everthing correctly; I should have took minutes.

All this done lip-synching of course, but that isn’t a concern, i suppose. And the teen-y, and tween-y demographic was not the case at all— a much older crowd of mostly twentysomethings. tho there were those annoy teens in front of us who stupidly got floor seats who couldn’t see b/c they’re short. they wanted to stand on the chair and watch, but will not tolerate crap. I’m a bitch, i know :D