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The problems on St Clair had virtually nothing to do with the fact that it was surface rail. One could just as easily make the connection that St Clair starts with an S, so all road work on S-Streets will be doomed. Metrolinx understands this, as does everyone else involved in the decision...

You might want to hold on to that avatar for a bit longer, just in case....council has yet to weigh-in. I'm not saying they'll push to kill this plan, but they certainly could (and should IMO, as it's a gravy-soaked mess of misallocated funds).

Hey, at least they decided not to eliminate Coxwell in this plan. One fix at a time... Eventually we'll get something that actually makes sense!

hehe...they forgot to highlight Montreal! And, come-on, is there really any point in comparing Halifax to Shanghai, New York, London, Tokyo, etc? One of these things is not like the others...

I think it's important to note that construction cost is hardly the TTC's sole, or even their primary, concern. They have a set amount of funds to spend on upgrades, so obviously they want to try and cover as much ground as possible, hitting as many trouble-spots as possible, and generally...

Exactly...you have to keep the area small, but that's no excuse for adhering to arbitrary borders and excluding major consumer bases and destinations. Hopefully their phase-one map is just a rough outline and these spots are in fact included.

They also missed out on the whole CityPlace area...seems like a no-brainer to include that.

re: 2 This is the main reason GO and TTC need to be under the same umbrella. We need to stop treating the subway like regional rail. Frequent all-day service on GO's ROWs would change everything. re: 3 Would be a pretty quick trial. 5 min worth of youtube....guilty!

haha! Classic!

Please, street artists, take this as far as possible (after obtaining the owner's permission of course). Give him the old Our Dear Leader treatment if necessary. Make Ford-o really consider your appeal. Huge internet bonus points will be awarded for creativity.

hehe I liked the part about the genetics. Libertarianism (or any -ism for that matter) taken to the extreme is so adorable!

Making decisions under the current system that fail under the most moderate scrutiny is not the same as attempting to change the current system. Besides that, Ford has made no comment on the wonders of private healthcare that I've ever heard, and even if he did, those matters are way outside...

Thankyou for clarifying, and sorry for jumping to conclusions. And you're welcome for the softball segue to your libertarian meanderings. :D Maybe you don't think HIV and homosexuality are tied, and in much of the world they're not....but in Toronto (and most of the western world) they are...

Really??? In the context of HIV??? I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it comes across like you're saying "those queers deserve to die for their sins''. You may want to take a minute and re-word what you're trying to say here.

Foolishly, I keep thinking it's going to register at some point. What I wouldn't give to spend one day in the mind of some of these people, just to feel what it's like to have your brain ignore rational arguments. How does it work? Is it like a Charlie Brown's Teacher sort of thing? No...

Ugh....obviously. We all recognize the imbalance, that the city is not getting it's fair share. That's not why people are making a fuss. The only reason this is even slightly interesting is that the request came from Mr. we-have-a-spending-problem-not-a-revenue-problem. The guy that...

That might be the worst mnemonic I've ever heard. :D

Coming back to the original story...I thought Ford didn't want provincial (taxpayer) money to begin with. Didn't he just vote against money from the province to provide screening for various infectious diseases? Going cap-in-hand to Queen's Park is tantamount to raping your grandmother, isn't...

That's the wordiest version of 'respect for taxpayers' I've ever heard, but all those words don't change the fact that it's idiotic sloganeering drivel.

So in short....their priorities and motivations differ from your own, and they've selected a representative they feel reflects those values. What's the problem here? Do you think their selected choice doesn't approximately represent those values? Or are the values themselves 'wrong'?