Sep 2 2024 - Busiest Day QEW

 

We are very attentive to the traffic on the QEW as this is one of the busiest days of the year.  In fact, the entire weekend.  People travelling into Niagara Falls for the splendid double fireworks.  People travelling out of Niagara returning from the U.S. There don't seem to be any statistics since the solar eclipse.   To make your holiday experience complete here is a youtube video of the Falls Fireworks Show.   This looks like it is only the CA side - this weekend will have both sides with a double show.  This is the Canadian side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoollQMAeLw Or experience it from the American Falls side here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNIUwQ-Zpkg And this final one has a drone view way up there.  I wonder how they got permission for that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU1afIdTza8 This has some pretty spectacular views of the Falls - one is right over the edge looking down into the falls. And the story of Indigenous peoples sending a young virgin over the Falls as a sacrifice to the spirit living under the Falls?  A colonial story made up.  One European version of the myth has LeLawala being offered to God Thunder in a human sacrifice.  "This version was created in the 17th century to pass on the idea, in the European society, that the Indians were savages who practiced human sacrifices and that, therefore, deserved to be conquered and civilized." Now we get to perform self-sacrifice by travelling the QEW on holiday weekends. Here's another abstract from the Monterey Aquarium.

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Dreaming of a Burlington Skyway View

I took this picture of the Stelco view from the Burlington Skyway from the bus while commuting a few winters ago. It is a different story this weekend.  A dump truck with its truck bed raised hit the bridge last week on the Toronto-bound side.  There were workers on the scaffolding so it could have been a tragic event.  The truck was massive and the impact significant so the bridge will be closed all weekend.  It is currently being assessed for structural damage.  

This is pretty big news for us here in the Niagara region.  It is a holiday weekend here in Ontario.  There aren't that many easy alternatives to getting around that corner of Lake Ontario.  It is one of the major routes to the US border crossings at Queenston, Niagara Falls and Buffalo.  Here's the CBC coverage of the traffic routes around the Lake for those of you in distant places.  Grimsby is the next stop after Stoney Creek.