Your next road trip needs this weird map
Alright, so here's the thing about Peterborough, you know? We’re connected to a lot of places by water, but we're also very much a highway town. We’re that place on the way to the Kawarthas, that stop before you push further north. So when I heard about this Waterloo engineering student, Jonathan Silverman, who's gone and created an "Ontario Oddities" map highlighting all the strange little highway quirks out there, well, that just caught my ear. He’s got everything from submerged roads to abandoned bridges. It’s the kind of thing that makes you pause and think about the layers of history flowing under our feet, or in this case, under our tires.
### What This Means for Peterborough
It’s not just about Toronto’s mega-towers or airport expansions for us up here. For Peterborough, these little oddities are part of the fabric, too. Think about the old sections of County Road 28 or some of the hidden trails around the Lift Lock that hint at older pathways. This map project really resonates here because we've got our own share of those almost-forgotten pathways and remnants of old infrastructure that tell a story if you know how to look.
* This map is a reminder that even the most mundane drive can hold a secret. * It encourages us to look closer at the landscape, the way the rivers carve through it, and how we've tried to build over it. * It’s about understanding the current of change that runs through our province, and how sometimes, the old currents still peek through.
This is the Electric City — small town, big current. Let's go.
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