GenerationW
Senior Member
What "popular consensus" will be in the new council is yet to be determined.Assuming he can execute on his ideas.. which he can't, both by his own poor skill set and by popular consensus.
What "popular consensus" will be in the new council is yet to be determined.Assuming he can execute on his ideas.. which he can't, both by his own poor skill set and by popular consensus.
All he has to execute to create havoc is cancel the order for 204 streetcars. I don't know if that can be done at just the Executive Committee level or not.Assuming he can execute on his ideas.. which he can't, both by his own poor skill set and by popular consensus.
All he has to execute to create havoc is cancel the order for 204 streetcars. I don't know if that can be done at just the Executive Committee level or not.
What "popular consensus" will be in the new council is yet to be determined.
Well, according to McG, funding is locked for Transit City, this does leave an interesting situation to the transit purposals by the mayor candidates.
And... if the 204 LRVs replacing the present rolling stock iare killed then it would effectively shut things down a lost faster than the current proposals, and cause havok.
I hope my assessments are wrong.
The majority of voters know better than to give the reigns of this city over to a child.
..... Elevated tracks, besides being expensive to built and maintain, are invariably ugly and create a psychological barrier within the city, no matter how much you dress them up.
Elevated tracks have may their place, but not in central Toronto.
I would argue that being in a subway tunnel for prolonged and repeated amounts of time has its own
psychological cost that needs to be addressed. It can be really depressing!
How are elevated tracks create barriers? I guess you've disregarded the elevated systems throughout almost every other major city in the world, which don't seem to tear communities apart. Granted, I bet if the TTC wasn't paying attention, they could very well screw up monumentally, but then they could do the same with LRT. Take a look at the elevated RT in Vancouver or Tokyo; those in no way tear communities apart. In fact, with even the slightest aesthetic talent, elevated tracks could actually make for a better community, having stores and such around stations, and creating a less imposing landscape along arterials.Besides the fact the building faces along critical parts of Eglinton are only 30m apart (making an elevated system impossible), how can you say stringing wires up is too expensive while building an elevated track is financially acceptable?
I can't see any advantages to building an elevated track in Toronto. The only reason Vancouver uses elevated tracks is they can't build underground systems due to the geology. The bedrock is too close to the surface. If you're building a system than needs more capacity than what an LRT can provide on the surface then an underground system is the next best choice. Elevated tracks, besides being expensive to built and maintain, are invariably ugly and create a psychological barrier within the city, no matter how much you dress them up.
Elevated tracks have may their place, but not in central Toronto.
This is why Vancouver has soared past Toronto in it's mass transit expansion and with another 30km of SkyTrain expansion to completed by 2019 the gap will only widen.