After seeing an ad posted on the TTC last month I attended the COG festival on February 20th, an organic growers conference held on Chestnut Street. I wanted to experience a gathering of the minority market in food production, a market vehemently protesting the dominant norm. I skipped down the road to the hotel conference center, ready to involve myself in a fight for the underdog and nab a free organic lunch for my trouble.
Unfortunately, the conference itself is not an event geared towards a casually interested observer: an expensive ticket ($65-$85!) deters those who have only outside ...Read More
And people wonder why there was a fare hike. It costs absurd amounts of money to operate a large-scale transit system, let alone to improve and upgrade it. I’ll never understand, though, why it seems to cost so much more to build new things here than it does in Europe, where subway extension is a given rather than a far off dream. Really, though, what do we expect, being in the country where owning a cellular phone is a serious investment – that improving our infrastructure should come cheap? Who do we think we are?
The city’s streetcar fleet, which is ...Read More
I feel somewhat hypocritical reporting this month’s weird news because it is all about people operating motor vehicles when they probably shouldn’t be and I’m fairly certain that I’m going to be one of those people quite soon. I don’t know how to drive. I remember nothing from driving lessons. I have trouble even walking near cars and other people – I kind of wish we could all give this horseback thing another try. But I have my G2 and I’ve driven on the highway with my entire family in the backseat screaming “YOU’RE GOING TOO FAST.”
I have not, however, ...Read More
