Mayoral candidate preaches Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/SkyTran-20Seattle2.jpg) Mayoral Candidate Piotr Anweiler thinks that Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is a better way to solve Ottawa’s traffic problem than Light Rail. Anweiler has a blog devoted to the subject. From a recent entry: "...the modest, pollution and accident free, most efficient way of public transportation, that I would like to build next year in the downtown of our city. ...

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Dominik Hasek & groin injuries

From Kukla’s Korner, a blog about hockey: everything you wanted to know about goalies, groin pulls , and what happened to Dominik Hasek at the Olympics this year: "Hasek’s overenthusiasm for participating in a second Olympic Games caused a finely-tuned athlete who must have everything he wears “just right” to wear two sets of pads that completely altered the angles at which his legs hit the ice, whether butterflying, kicking out a pad, or dropping to one knee, and he paid for it. ...

Weekend reading #2: Building houses in Meadowlands, circa 1956

From Nepean This Week , and article about early developments in Nepean’s Meadowlands area in the 1950’s: Meadowlands residents remember the houses they built together when the area was farmland. … This year marks the 50th anniversary of a group of families in Nepean, mostly of young scientists in their late 20s from Radio Propagation Laboratory in Shirleys Bay, who organized themselves into a co-operative and built homes in the Meadowlands area when it was still dirt roads and farmland. ...