The downtown train station was grimy and contributed to traffic congestion. Swimming at Hogs Back Falls contributed to several deaths and even more injuries. I'm with you on the street cars though.
@@KiviShapirohow did the downtown station contribute to traffic? The new station doesn’t have the capacity as the old station did and we lost almost all the train routes out of Ottawa.
Exactly. I wish I could of swam at Hogs Back Falls, or took a Train into the centre of the city. Imagine what it would look like now. Originally, the Ottawa River Parkway was supposed to extend to the 417 in the west as a highway... Crazy how times and plans change.
70 years later, the Greber Plan had mixed results. Perhaps the industrial railways should have been removed to the periphery but Union Station would have tremendous value had it been retained. The removal of industry from the centre of the city was simply the loss of industry entirely.
Ottawa, sadly, has ruined a lot of the potential it had in this video. Moving the train station out of downtown, ripping out the streetcars, and carving up the city with highways and stroads has been a disaster. It's known as "Autowa" now. I'd give anything to live in a city designed around people. Such a shame that Ottawa missed that opportunity.
A fascinating little time capsule. I moved here in '92. I note several complaints among the comments about the negative aspects of the changes implemented. Are there examples of formerly roughly similar cities which modernized to much better effect?
Unfortunately the Greber plan was never completed and the 2 bridges planned for the East and West end were never started. That is why we still have Truck traffic downtown.
I sure do look forward to when people elect a boy who earned a full government pension off of our tax dollars at 31. Who’s only platform to show “I’m not the other guy”. Told Canadians to invest in bitcoin before it crashed. In the pocket of businesses who would happily eliminate unions and have all of us for penny’s on the dollar. Very sound politics and so very adult and normal. Love thy neighbour* and do no harm** *unless they’re weird or icky or make me uncomfortable with their ideas or enjoyment of public healthcare and education **only to those deemed normal by “someone else” never mind that that someone could be anyone. Don’t think too hard about how your ideas of justice could be used against you, no. Only the “undesirables” will be harmed. “‘First they came for the socialists’ and then no one else because I stopped paying attention” - that’s how the quote goes right?
Gut-wrenching to see all the things we threw away. The downtown train station. Street cars. Swimming at Hogs Back Falls.
The downtown train station was grimy and contributed to traffic congestion. Swimming at Hogs Back Falls contributed to several deaths and even more injuries. I'm with you on the street cars though.
No sympathy for an ignorant population
@@KiviShapirohow did the downtown station contribute to traffic? The new station doesn’t have the capacity as the old station did and we lost almost all the train routes out of Ottawa.
How did it cause traffic when the rails used to be beside the canal ! We need to stop electing IDIOTIC MAYORS !
Exactly. I wish I could of swam at Hogs Back Falls, or took a Train into the centre of the city. Imagine what it would look like now. Originally, the Ottawa River Parkway was supposed to extend to the 417 in the west as a highway... Crazy how times and plans change.
It is cool to see old films like this. Nothing like it.
It warms my heart to see Ottawa was 10-15 years behind, even in the past!
Removing the train station out of downtown was the worse plan ever
Agreed, so was building a highway right through the downtown core.
Wonderful to watch. Thanks for this!
70 years later, the Greber Plan had mixed results. Perhaps the industrial railways should have been removed to the periphery but Union Station would have tremendous value had it been retained. The removal of industry from the centre of the city was simply the loss of industry entirely.
Union station is still there, you can get a free tour
@@thetransitwayhistorianI think they mean, if union station had been retained as an actual working train station.
@traceye.6428 I are this now thank you
Ottawa, sadly, has ruined a lot of the potential it had in this video. Moving the train station out of downtown, ripping out the streetcars, and carving up the city with highways and stroads has been a disaster. It's known as "Autowa" now. I'd give anything to live in a city designed around people. Such a shame that Ottawa missed that opportunity.
Wow! Film from mcmxlix (1949).
A fascinating little time capsule. I moved here in '92.
I note several complaints among the comments about the negative aspects of the changes implemented. Are there examples of formerly roughly similar cities which modernized to much better effect?
【2:38】Hogs Back Falls ?? I've never heard this place before near Ottawa, Canada. 😲
🌷☺🌷It's interesting place. 👍
Vincent Massey Park, Mooney's Bay, dammed wild rapids.
@@scotti.6433 : Thanks for your information ! 💐
Not as accessible today. Today people are more risk averse or soft.
A Canada Carries On presentation, the beaver at work.
Lorne Greene is putting on a semi-British accent, a popular (and artificial) way of speaking in films at that time.
Unfortunately the Greber plan was never completed and the 2 bridges planned for the East and West end were never started. That is why we still have Truck traffic downtown.
Strathcona Park 9:50 I swam in that pool
Imagine landing here as a refugee on a boat and then living by parliament hill 20 years later
Good ol’ Lorne.
The roads-first plan of the 1950s
Highways should be build around cities, not through cities.
Maybe if politicians could see more industry from their perch they'd know that the value of money doesn't come from paper or digital.
A video on how to destroy a city
When adults ran the country and people were normal. Long gone!
I sure do look forward to when people elect a boy who earned a full government pension off of our tax dollars at 31. Who’s only platform to show “I’m not the other guy”. Told Canadians to invest in bitcoin before it crashed. In the pocket of businesses who would happily eliminate unions and have all of us for penny’s on the dollar. Very sound politics and so very adult and normal.
Love thy neighbour* and do no harm**
*unless they’re weird or icky or make me uncomfortable with their ideas or enjoyment of public healthcare and education
**only to those deemed normal by “someone else” never mind that that someone could be anyone. Don’t think too hard about how your ideas of justice could be used against you, no. Only the “undesirables” will be harmed. “‘First they came for the socialists’ and then no one else because I stopped paying attention” - that’s how the quote goes right?