Good Tuesday morning and welcome to Dawson Road Today! Dawson Road was filled with an air of excitement Monday, and I quite enjoyed it.
Before I opened my shop at Plants For All, I had to attend to some business at Meridian Credit Union, at the corner of Dawson and Speedvale. In the short distance from my shop at 66 Dawson Rd to Meridian, I encountered no less than six different construction projects underway. A crew from Guelph Hydro was on site working on a new pole installed in front of 86 Dawson Rd. Bel Air Construction made up the rest of the crews working on different projects. Each crew had their own job to do and on one hand seemed independent of the others. On the other hand, they were a well-orchestrated line of production.
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Sunday night's thunderstorms with the accompanying heavy rains didn't seem to slow down construction work on Monday. So the weather was good yesterday, the construction crews were buzzing and it's been a very long time since I've seen such heavy traffic on Dawson Road. I stood outside my shop several times to gauge the traffic flow and the traffic mix. In addition to the usual industrial traffic, I was pleased to see at least as many, if not more, regular cars. Especially in the early afternoon, the traffic flow was consistently good. All of us business owners who have been here on Dawson Road for any length of time, have experienced far too many 'traffic-quiet' summer afternoons here. Of course, we would rather have it busy. Last week, I did a photo summary of the Bel Air Construction heavy equipment that was on site on that particular day. The huge vacuum truck, shown here, was not on site that day; but it was here yesterday buzzing away most of the day on the access way between Brush Cuts and Rona Cashway. This also added to the feeling that "something" was happening.
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I also noticed more pedestrians on Dawson Road Today. Sometime pedestrians would wait for construction equipment to pass and sometimes construction equipment would wait for pedestrians to pass. They all seemed to get to wherever they were going without a lot of fuss or bother. One dear lady got herself, and her car, turned around in a complete 360 degree circle in the access way to our shop. She didn't panic, she took it slow and she got going the right way.
The Guelph Transit bus stop has been relocated again. It is now in front of Royal City Warehousing, about 50 feet south of where it was at the Guelph Medical Place access way.
I had 3 young ladies come into my shop looking for the 'computer guy' that used to be in our building. I sent them happily on their way to see my good friend Bo at Hardsoft Computer in the plaza at 86 Dawson Road. They'll get a good deal and good service there.
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The short term weather looks like it is going to be wet. We'll see how that plays out for the construction. I know one crew was late working yesterday. They were still working in the access way between Brush Cuts and Rona Cashway after 7:30, when I left my shop. They sure put in a long day.
One customer in my shop suggested that I should run for Mayor. I don't know where that came from; but Mayor Farbridge has nothing to worry about from this quarter. Just a little fun, I suppose.
So, there is lots of activity going on down here on Dawson Road. Customers are successfully negotiating their way through the construction traffic to 'take care of business'. You can, too! Come on down, we'd love to see you on Dawson Road Today!
Brian
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