Well it’s looking like the prolonged fall is over, wintry like conditions seem to be evolving nicely. Well nicely in terms of the expectations of good snow coverage and brisk crunchy sounding walks. It has been down to -10 at night with days up to -3 or so. Winds are consistent and persistent with chills in the -10 during the day
For now it is kind of bleak, the roads dried out about five days ago, while the sun is nice it has left the roads dry as an African desert. The vehicles and the wind kick up this very fine rock dust; it can’t be conducive to ones healthy well being.
Getting some light snow this AM, so that will deal with the dust for now.
We are still waiting for our winter food order to be shipped out of St. John’s. Not happy with the situation, but the company we dealt with for years has a new owner, and in the interest of fairness to him I am putting up with the late [last boat out of Lewisport] shipment.
There will be no way I will put up with it again next year though. It is just too much stress wondering if the order will get here with all the variables.
One thing that is not a variable is the deplorable and third world like service supplied by the operators of the boats, Labrador Coastal Marine, and the service providers and owner of some of the boats, Government of NL.
There is a community welcome happening this Thursday. A service group in the community has this gathering and welcome for all the new arrivals in town each year. They do some entertainment, bit of a nosh and present the newbie’s with a welcome basket of goodies. Looks like about 30 this year.
I have heard that there is a group of young people being schooled in the art of Choir singing in Inuktitut. Twenty people involved at the moment, will have to find out more about that.
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Have you read the consultation document on The Development of a transportation plan for Labrador yet?
http://www.tw.gov.nl.ca/publications/ltp-consultation.pdf
News release.
http://www.tw.gov.nl.ca/publications/ltp-consultation.pdf
It's an easy read at 19 pages mostly a call for input and experiences.
I did a blog up on it with my few suggestions having never been to the Big land my insight is limited.
I did ommit signage with respect to that article in the Labradorian this past year by some tourists who wrote a scathing letter with reference to the lack of signage.
Yep nl-expat, have read the document. Some people from WST coming in December for a 3 hour consult on it with ‘stakeholders’.
Couple of comments on the wording of document. While it does say how much money [340 million] was handed over by the feds and put into the transportation fund, it goes on to say the by getting the TLH listed on the NHS the road now becomes eligible for federal funding. To date 90% federal funding has gone into the TLH, and the province won’t put anymore funds in until the feds come up with 50%.
So one has to be pessimistic about how much the province is going to anti up for the marine network.
People on the north coast get very riled when they see words like ‘Subsidy’ for marine shipping. In this document it states a 70% subsidy of the 20 million to operate the marine highway. You do not see the word ‘subsidy’ mentioned in any other transport sectors like roads rail air.
One interesting stat. in there is the amount of freight leaving Lewisport for the north coast compared to leaving Goose Bay for the same destination, almost double. This will be a topic for great discussion I would hope.
You enthusiasm of Goose Bay being the gateway to the north is a little misguided though, I will elaborate on that in a later post.
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