Public Art
One of the things I miss about both Seattle and Washington, DC is abundance of public art. Milton, being much smaller and really only going through serious urbanization now, is seriously lacking. Click through to see some examples of simple, but creative, public art. For obvious reasons, we cannot (and do not want to ) compete with Washington, DC as far as public art is concerned. However, street art does not have to cost much to put up and / or maintain. In fact, it does not even have to be overly complicated: Really, what we need...
Read MoreHow to request traffic calming for your street
The Council recently approved traffic calming policy. Residents can request traffic calming for their street, but there are involved steps for that. Here’s what one needs to do (these are very brief summary. Full details are online in the Traffic Calming Policy document) :- Step 1: Submit a written request (e-mails are not accepted) Step 2: Town screens whether that section of the street meets criteria (> 500 Annual Average Daily Traffic, 50km/hr or less limit etc.) Step 3: Resident is expect to petition households with direct frontage onto the...
Read MoreTransit Ridership Numbers
Transit continues to see a rapid rise in ridership. These numbers are for revenue-paying passenger trips, not including transfers: May 2010 – 9,177 May 2011 – 18,733 (104% increase) Looking at first 5 months of this year, Milton’s tiny transit system provided 48,354 trips in 2010 but 86,931 trips in 2011. That’s an 80% increase! And Milton Transit did it without increasing the net budget. Right now we’re taking 800 cars off roads every weekday in Milton. Most of these cars would end up on same tired roads (Derry Rd and Main Street). In last month’s budget survey, 69.4%...
Read MoreFirst Quarter Report
It’s really four months (December, January, February, March), but I don’t know the word for the 4-month period, so we’ll call it a quarter (does anyone else know what it’s called?) I’ll do a quarterly report every 3 months from now on. Here’s the first one.First 120 days have been eventful, to say the least. Budget, as usual, generated a lot of discussion. We passed our budget in January. Why so early, you ask? It turns out that by approving the budget ahead of other municipalities, we can negotiate better deals with contractors who start to get...
Read MoreSnow Clearing FAQ
Councillor Barkley has a good write-up on her website about snow control policies in Milton. Instead of repeating what she summarized, I’ll just point you to her website. It’s here: http://www.sharonbarkley.ca/SnowClearing.html. ...
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