Work Zone 1 - Waldergrave Street to Rear of former Woolworth’s building.

Work Zone 1 will be in affect as of Monday, June 2, 2008. Through traffic will be restricted at the Waldegrave Street at Water Street intersection and at Bishop’s Cove at Harbour Dirve.

Bishop’s Cove will remain open to one-way traffic going from Harbour Drive to Water Street. Beck’s Cove will remain open to one-way traffic going from Water Street to Harbour Drive.

Vehicle access to parking lots off Steers Cove, the former Woolworth’s building and the rear of Templeton’s building will be maintained at all times. Access to the Steers Cove parking will be permitted through a temporary access point at Steers Cove and Water Street.

Through traffic on Harbour Drive will be restricted between Bishop’s Cove and Waldegrave Street at Water Street intersection, however access to all off-street parking areas and local businesses will be maintained.

A net loss of approximately 30 on-street metered spaces will occur on Harbour Drive for the majority of the construction season.

For more information contact the City of St. John’s at 311 or visit www.stjohns.ca/csj/NewsDetails?id=697

Metrobus Kiss & Ride - a new route system and program that takes you from the west end of St. John's to Downtown in 10 minutes, every 15 minutes!

Take advantage of Metrobus' convenient peak-time transit services. Let's say for example, you live in the east end. You work at Confederation Building and your husband works Downtown. Instead of always using two cars or driving all over the city, you drop your husband at Torbay Road Mall, kiss him goodbye and he catches a convenient route 3 to Water Street and he's there in 10 minutes.

That was easy. You've cut down on CO2 emissions and left a little more fuel in your tank!

For more information visit www.metrobus.com

A major residential development for downtown St.John's has been given the green light. Council has given the okay to six residential condominium buildings to be located on the former Standard Manufacturing site on Water Street East. Each building will have eight units for the total of 48 and there will be one level of indoor parking.

Councilor Frank Galgay says the proposed development is a good one for the city. Galgay says other people's views will not be impacted and both parking and traffic do not seem to be an issue. Councilor Art Puddister suggested that any buyers of the new condominiums be informed of the noise levels from the harbour. Puddister says no by-laws will be changed to reduce the noise.

Excerpt VOCM Radio News May 13, 2008

The cruise ship Minerva arrives in port today at noon with 350 German passengers and a crew of 260. The vessel is scheduled to leave port at 7:00 pm. The Minerva is on a World Cruise that began on March 13 in New York and finishes on May 22 in Hamburg. The vessel is on its way from St. Pierre & Micquelon and will spend the day on St. John’s before heading to the Azores.

For more information call the DDC office at 579 4139 or the City of St. John’s Tourism department at 576 8455.