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Street names for the first development cell (industry term) of Waverly West have rolled out. Dumb growth deserves dumb street names, apparently. You can read the Free Press op-ed, er, news story, here:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/local/story/3782020p-4374143c.html
With such laughable absurdities as Hill Grove, Castlebrook, Oak Lawn, and Burbank (no relation to Borebank Street in River Heights--two names that, while also chosen to invoke a sense of bucolic genteelity, differ in that they actually bear some connection to geography and history), it makes me wonder if perhaps the "city planners" used a chart similar to this:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/local/story/3782020p-4374143c.html
With such laughable absurdities as Hill Grove, Castlebrook, Oak Lawn, and Burbank (no relation to Borebank Street in River Heights--two names that, while also chosen to invoke a sense of bucolic genteelity, differ in that they actually bear some connection to geography and history), it makes me wonder if perhaps the "city planners" used a chart similar to this:
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12:09 PM
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