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23 Jun, 2016

Sinkhole tourism! It’s a thing!

Posted by andrea tomkins in: Ottawa

I don’t get down to the Rideau Centre as much as I would like, so when I was there last weekend I went on a little walkabout. It’s amazing how much this mall has changed over the past handful of years, isn’t it? And did you know there’s an Anthropologie and a Simons coming? Ack. I sense my credit card melting already. :/

While I was there I decided to check out the pedestrian overpass that connects the Rideau side to the Hudson’s Bay side to see if I could catch a good view of any sinkhole repair action. As it turned out, I was not the only one who had this idea:

Watching Rideau construction

This was the scene on the sinkhole side of Rideau Street:

Sinkhole repair

… and this was the view on the other side:

Team Ottawa!

I have to admit, if there was a free easy chair I probably would have stayed a bit longer…


1 Response to "Sinkhole tourism! It’s a thing!"

1 | joy

June 23rd, 2016 at 2:02 pm

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we went too! we took advantage of the free shuttle from OC Transpo and went on Sunday :D (it runs again this Sunday, too)

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