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I live in Vancouver BC and there's a daily Amtrak train to Seattle, so I don't see why not. Unless you mean there's a concern about the tunnel itself...?

Google Street View shows the house has been fixed up. It has a nice new door and windows.

That's too bad, Google Street View shows it was being renovated in 2019, the 2021 photo shows it looking better than it has in years with new windows and doors. Too bad it didn't last.

I finally own one of these elusive pieces of Detroit history. The project lasted for just a few months in 2009.

I had an eBay alert for "Detroit community scrip" set for years and no bites....

Price here in Vancouver today: C$1.61 per litre = US$4.77 per US gallon

I've never lived in Detroit, but visited twice, in 2011 and in 2014. Spent 6 days total. This is one of the places I ate at. So glad I did.

Was very surprised to see Faygo being sold at my local No Frills supermarket in Vancouver. Has the required English/French labeling for Canada. Never seen it here before. 40977

Roundabouts are way better than sitting at a red light for a full minute even when there are no other vehicles in sight.

Roundabout = go when you can, stop when you need to
Traffic lights = go...

Previous threads on this topic. Interesting reading for us sign nerds:

https://www.detroityes.com/mb/showthread.php?18991-Questions-regarding-street-corner-name-signs-of-the-1950-s
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We're choking in Vancouver right now, air quality is at 278, the worst reading of any city in the world.

The city with the cleanest air in the world [[at this moment)? You. Congratulations!
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Wow, we had three of his killer whale murals here in Vancouver for years. I just assumed it was a local artist since killer whales are a local thing here. I had no idea the whales on the Broderick...

Back in the news today, it seems to be over! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-hum-zug-island-us-steel-1.5665100

This thread died out so long ago, I guess people had just given up and...

Downtown Vancouver sounds like this every night at 7pm, as people gather on their balconies and front porches and salute health care and other essential service workers. All the sound is coming from...

Anything new out there that's 1) Set in present-day Detroit [[not decades ago), and 2) not pulp crime genre? The Turner House by Angela Flournoy was right up my alley.

Wow! Would love to hear more about those Palmer Park handball courts. I'm guessing built in the 1930s?

Doh! Just outside city limits. Thanks for the info.

The old black and white Wadsworth and West Parkway signs have been replaced with new style ones.

But The 4-block stretch of Wadsworth between Virgil and Hazelton still has the old style green...

I saw several varieties of of McClure's pickles in my local Vancouver supermarket recently. They now say Product of India. I didn't buy.

Detroit is not exactly a tourist hub, visitors to the city are going to be either visiting family or on business. People visiting family aren't going be going directly downtown in any significant...

Crimetown Season 2 [[Detroit) is now being released outside of Spotify. Apple Podcasts has the first few episodes up and ready for listening.

Wow, we have a couple of these here in Vancouver and I thought they were just a local phenomenon. This one faced the wrecking ball when it and the neighboring houses were sold and rezoned for...

The thing I like about podcasts as entertainment is that you can do other things while you enjoy the podcast, like vacuum, wax the car, clean the garage...can't do that with books, TV, video games,...

Season 2 is only on Spotify.

I am a huge podcast fan, it's my main form of entertainment. But this trend of podcast producers signing exclusive distribution deals with Spotify and the like really...

Has anyone been listening to this? Season 2 was 19 episodes all about Detroit, starting with STRESS in 1971 and ending with Kilpatrick's corruption conviction. The final episode just posted...

Thanks. "Copping a buzz" is something I've never heard here on the west coast.