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t-mitch4
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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 1800 on 12/21/2007 5:01 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Homeless set blaze in abandoned tunnel under Douglas Street Rob Shaw Times Colonist Friday, December 21, 2007 City of Victoria crews were busy yesterday trying to seal off the entrance to a 100-year-old tunnel beneath Douglas Street after a group of homeless people was discovered living there. The ancient passageway, at one time used to shuttle laundry out of the Fairmont Empress hotel, was supposed to be inaccessible to the public because the city had declared it unsafe. However, an undetermined number of homeless people had pried open an access point and had apparently been there for "quite some time," said City of Victoria communications manager Katie Josephson. Numerous belongings were left scattered inside, she said. The group likely would have still been there undetected had they not decided to light fires in the tunnel Wednesday night. Businesses near the Victoria Conference Centre, at the east side of the hotel, as well as those across Douglas Street, reported smoke pouring from underground. "It was a fair amount of smoke coming out of there but nothing too serious," said Victoria fire Capt. Neil Aldous. "It was in a bit of an unusual place where we don't usually see fires." Firefighters arrived at the tunnel around 10:50 p.m., but the fires had mostly extinguished on their own, Aldous said. It was disruptive for some businesses, such as National Car Rental on the other side of Douglas Street from the hotel. It still smelled like burned wires yesterday, manager Lise Daigle said. "It's challenging, because we've got no phones and no computers," she said. The phone lines were fried in the blaze, and the Internet connection was also down. Telus expected to fix both late yesterday. Despite the inconvenience, the business has stayed open, Daigle said. The tunnel is one of many that remain hidden below the city's downtown core, according to Victoria folklore. The Empress built the tunnel in 1908 to provide an underground passageway to a power plant and laundry facility near Douglas and Humboldt streets, according to the book The Empress Hotel: In the Grand Style by Terry Reksten. The city is now exploring other ways to reseal the passageway. Josephson said she was reluctant to discuss the tunnel's exact location and how to access it, in order to prevent others from trying to break in and live there in the future. [email protected] © Times Colonist (Victoria) 2007
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| KublaKhan
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Total Likes: 207 likes
With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie.
| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 1802 on 12/22/2007 12:12 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | ...and they said I was crazy. Someone alert Jester. So there I was, lounging with my old buddy Avatar-X (maybe you've heard of him) at his stylish pad, surrounded by high-tech gear and automatic voice controlled curtains (seriously...Av speaks into his watch and the curtains close), and we're watching a little documentary video on his sexy HD screen (also voice controlled), and it's a doc about tunnels in Victoria, and it stars (variously) a bunch of guys who sail under the banner of the GCG Crew, and in this doc there is some footage of a tunnel that is now part of Victoria's undeniable network blah blah blah... You'll get a chance to see Under the Garden City soon enough. Now you know. Jester...HA. Cynic. I told you I'd prove you WRONG. PS. Thanks again, Av.
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| meggaman
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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 1812 on 12/23/2007 8:23 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | u guys should know that all those ass hats burning in the tunnels ,,bringing extra unwanted attention ,are going to ruin it for us ,, accsess will be harder now ,,
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| KublaKhan
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Total Likes: 207 likes
With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie.
| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 1817 on 12/24/2007 1:35 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by t-mitch4 While visiting an old Pal in Victoria this morning...
| Here, there and everywhere. No matter where you go in this city, or who you speak with, etc. etc. etc. Crazy talk. All of it. No tunnels here, folks. Nothing to see. Until something actually surfaces in the beloved TC, and then it's news. Then it's newsworthy. Don't listen to the people who have been inside/living/sleeping/etc. They're all nutters. Your friend at the Royal is a nutter too. As is the girl I spoke with a couple of years ago...the meth-head girl with the missing dog, or the old guy outside the Janion, or the old woman near Broughton, or the scabby guy by the Johnson St. Bridge, or the old sailor or the other guy or the woman or the retired city worker or blah blah blah. Nutters. All of them. The TC, however...THAT'S the real deal. Does anybody believe now?
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