tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12941086.post112506935041922466..comments2024-03-15T21:43:52.652-05:00Comments on City in the Trees: Of Cherries and FerriesLone Primatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15746801663695992138noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12941086.post-1125174218182300592005-08-27T15:23:00.000-05:002005-08-27T15:23:00.000-05:00Erm, for "part" above read "park". :)Erm, for "part" above read "park". :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12941086.post-1125174160623535682005-08-27T15:22:00.000-05:002005-08-27T15:22:00.000-05:00Hm. I never thought of that. I suppose it equate...Hm. I never thought of that. I suppose it equates to selling (faster) access to Toronto to other people in the States, and making a commission. Perhaps there is method in the madness. Mind you, it amounts to eating Buffalo's lunch, and these days Buffalo sure needs it. Last I heard NYS had taken over the administration of the city. Not good news. :(<BR/><BR/>I think the one down side of taking the ferry is it dumps you right downtown, where parking's expensive and the driving is a whole lot of no fun. On the other hand, if that's where a person's heading anyway, I guess it beats that long haul around the whole western third of Lake Ontario, since you can just part and take the buses, streetcars, and the subway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12941086.post-1125151911606321862005-08-27T09:11:00.000-05:002005-08-27T09:11:00.000-05:00Regrading the ferry to Rochester, I don't know, bu...Regrading the ferry to Rochester, I don't know, but I might have an idea as to why Rochester is big on it. Not so much for the Canadians to come there, but more so for the Americans going to Toronto.<BR/><BR/>When we go,we drive up, which is through Buffalo, and around the lake on the QEW. We've talked about instead just dirving up to Rochester and taking the ferry over, cause it would be a shorter trip. (we haven't done so because we've heard it was in financail trouble and so on). But if we were going to do this, more than likely, we'd stay the night in Rochester and take the ferry in the morning. So, by keeping the ferry, perhaps Rochester is hoping to get people like us to come up spend money on hotels, food and the like before going to Toronto.<BR/><BR/>Like I said, I don't know, but that could be it.Polthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16480544010972209436noreply@blogger.com