By Kelly Egan, Ottawa Citizen, November 16, 2014
Sparks Street, for oldtimers, is the city’s boulevard of broken dreams.It was
often said, smirkingly, a cannon could be shot down Sparks after 6 and hit
nothing. Not true. The cannon actually hit everything, especially in the stretch
between Bank and O’Connor.Snakes alive. Half the block on the north is all
hoarding and tarps and fences, the back end of 180 Wellington. One day last
week, there were so many trucks on the “pedestrian” mall it looked like Dealer
Days for F-150s. via
Egan: Once ritzy, Sparks Street now a battered butler for the PS | Ottawa
Citizen.