Sharon Linstedt, reporter for the Buffalo News, has a story today on the unknown fate of the Aquarama.
The Marine Star, the rusting passenger ferry that spent more than a decade sitting on the Buffalo waterfront, is on its way to Turkey.
But it is still not known whether the once-proud ship is headed to the scrap yard or new life as a floating casino.
The Buffalo Ruse has a farcical look into the future of the Skyway… The New York State Department of Transportation has issued a dramatic proposal to eliminate the Buffalo Skyway by the year 2019. Instead of demolishing the structure, as a recent urban renewal commission has suggested, The DOT’s plan calls for raising the City…
Looks like Ethanol isn’t the answer to the global warming problem. Then again, what’s the problem? Canada is concerned about global cooling. I know, I know. Since we can’t quite agree on what the problem is we should be trying to solve, we can just generalize it and call it “global climate change.” Because dammit,…
I just completed my annual review of our 2006 spending and setting up our budget for 2007. Starting back in 2000, after I graduated from college and got a “real job”, I set up a simple spreadsheet that let me keep track of how much money I was spending and on what. I knew that…
We’re going to be having some roof work done in the next month or so, and one of the tasks is to install a ridge vent along the main peak of the house. I have a pretty sizeable attic, but the only ventilation is through two relatively small gable vents at each end. The roofing…
The Aquarama should have been kept in the USA and used for a maritime Great Lakes museum, or restored for lake cruises. There are many uses. It could have been a tourist attraction still. It could have been a nice money making project for the state of Ohio, New York, Wisconsin, or Michigan, but instead because of foolish lack of imagination and planning it is gone. I hope it does not end up as scrap. That would be a mindless act.