Parking problem or a Bruce Todd problem.

Citizens account: Parking avaliability at sold out event @ the LVEC !

Differs significantly from our "town idiots"....so called accounts.

Parking doesn't seem scarce
Posted 5 hours ago

I was curious after reading Bruce Todd's letter about the lack of available parking near the K-Rock Centre on a Saturday night ("City misleading public about available parking," Feb. 21). I was passing through the downtown and thought a quick drive-by past the arena could be interesting. How many parking spots were actually available at 8:30 on the eve of a sold-out event?

My short tour in the immediate area showed me that I could have showed up late to the show and had a choice of several spots within a two-minute walk.

If I wanted to pay a few bucks less and park on a city street, no fewer than 20 spots were available within a five-minute walk of the arena.

I figure that either the parking situation is manageable or that using taxis and buses, car pooling and exercise aren't as old-fashioned as some Kingstonians seem to think.

Chris Morris

Kingston

Green with envy; Eco-friendly police station nets $8.5M grant

Green with envy; Eco-friendly police station nets $8.5M grant

Posted By Ian Elliot
Posted 7 hours ago

Kingston's new police station got a low-interest, $8.5-million grant from the federal government for energy efficiency yesterday, opening the door for the new downtown arena to also benefit from the government's green strategy.


The new Division Street headquarters, billed as the greenest police headquarters in Canada, was rewarded yesterday with a loan covering almost a quarter of the construction cost of $34.4 million.

The money came from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, which administers the fund on behalf of the federal government. The purpose of the fund is to reward environmentally friendly initiatives by towns and cities.

The Kingston grant was the largest of four announced for eastern Ontario yesterday by Leeds-Grenville MP Gord Brown, who was representing federal Environment Minister John Baird.


Since KCAL seems to dream up most of their Crystal Ball predictions...it looks like it maybe highly likely the LVEC will receive a grant for its LEED building - that will help off set any costs related to the building - along with promoting Kingston (and the naming rights) on the building as a national example of what we are doing in this city to make it both enviromentally responsible & open for business and entertainment expansion!

WHO KNEW?

Certainly NOT KCAL!