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ShareOur services are better than yours! Our politicians are better than yours! Our industries are better than yours! Our city is more intelligent than yours! What a pile of you know what!!!!!
I'm driving down Waterloo Street (coincidentally) to pick up my daughter from a sleepover at the hone of one of her very good friends. As I drive from the Waterloo direction, I follow the numbers very intently get to my final destination. 146....148....150....250....148....WHAT! Then I realize I just crossed from Waterloo to Kitchener. Nothing has changed (except the numbers). Still beautifully groomed, older houses. People are friendly on both sides of the border. Properties are beautifully maintained. The road on both sides of this imaginary line are the same. My daughter's friend is as gracious and kind as her Waterloo friends. Exactly what are we fighting for?
Our services are better than yours! Our politicians are better than yours! Our industries are better than yours! Our city is more intelligent than yours! What a pile of you know what!!!!! I don't have any scientific data on this, but I do happen to know that a very large number (if not a majority) of people that made Waterloo the most intelligent city in the world don't even come from Waterloo, or live in Waterloo.
As a Waterloo resident, I'm very proud of the successes that our City has had in the past 10 years. We've proven ourselves to be extremely Entrepreneurial
1. Tanya M ( 1 year ago )
Bill. In some cases I'd disagree that Amalgamation makes sense, but int eh case of Kitchener Waterloo, you're 100% right. We public already treats it as a single city as do the businesses. Why must politics divide our great city into two halves?
2. Rob D ( 1 year ago )
I have heard tell, and this is entirely unsupported by any actual knowledge of fact so please enjoy some salt while I ramble, that the streets in Kitchener-Waterloo were designed without any plan in mind but through actual use of horses and buggies.
We live in a slightly hilly, slightly marshy sort of area so the paths that the earliest residents of our region could follow were limited to what was reasonably easy. Around the hills instead of over them for the most part, and through marshes and wet areas wherever the land was firm enough.
I do enjoy telling visitors and newcomers to the city that the easiest way to reach your destination is to start by going in the opposite direction.
3. Bill W ( 1 year ago )
So, essentially Rob, what you are telling us is that the City was built looking backward instead of looking forward.
There was some genius evident when they built the Conestoga Parkway though. If they used the same arguments back when they built the Parkway, we would be like London today. Someone had foresight back then.
4. Cameron T ( 1 year ago )
"At the intersection of King and Weber". Need I say more?
For you out of towners: There are 3 such intersections within KW and they refer to the same roads, not different roads with the same names.
5. Greg W ( 1 year ago )
As a current 905er, I'll stay out of the debate as to which city is better. However, I agree that amalgamation makes sense, especially with regards to the streets. I recently attended a conference on King Street North in Waterloo. Driving in from the 905, I encountered King Street East, West, South and finally North, which are all on the same street! Since the boundary between Kitchener and Waterloo is virtually indistinguishable, it can be tricky for people who don't know the KW area. (Of course, it would have helped if the event organizer had supplied the correct address, but that's another story altogether.)
6. Mohannad H ( 1 year ago )
Is it just me or do you also agree that whoever designed the KW streets had a serious disability in regards to drawing straight lines? I mean, seriously, what's wrong with the good old grid design?
Try getting on the highway from Victoria or Ottawa street and good luck figuring out if you want to take 7 east or west... it makes me want to immigrate to Mars!
The KW streets have inspired me to invent a new term: Spaghetti Streets!