Whoaccio
Senior Member
First off, Toronto's population surpassed 100,000 at the turn of the last century. By the 1920s it was approaching half a million.
The city of Toronto was 600k in 1998. By the 1920s, the city was most definitely not 500k.
Secondly, Vancouver's east end was built in the '30s, yet they somehow managed to anticipate future growth and laid out Kingsway, Hastings, Naniamo, Renforth and others as 6 lanes, not the pathetic 4 lanes that we see in all of Toronto's major streets. Explain that.... but their traffic flows better than ours (well, except for those blasted bridges, but then the tree huggers shut down the Lion's Gate widening, too).
So... except for the fact their traffic doesn't flow better than ours, their traffic flows better than ours. Great logic.
I repeat from an earlier post I did:
The Toronto bleeding Star's own figures: 76% DRIVE to work
16% TTC
6% walk or cycle
This is a democracy. Supposedly. The people have voted. Deal with it.
Uhh... This is a democracy, and people voted for Miller, just like they voted for every Mayor since David Crombie who recommended the same thing. Deal with it. Driving a car isn't democracy, by the way. Notice how people drive cars in China. Despite you're "savvy" debating skills, nobody is talking about getting rid of roads throughout the GTA. So why you would list aggregate figures for transport in Toronto is bewildering.
If you want discuss transit in the downtown core (you know, where the Gardiner is) 47% is TTC, 19% is GO, 26% is auto (municipal road) and 8% of it is the Gardiner. More to the point, only 15% of Gardiner users drive on this particular stretch, dropping the total to 1.2% of trips to the downtown core. Using you're horrible logic alone, we should tear it down (if only 1.2% of people use it, democracy dictates it goes).
Save the snide remarks about my fellow dog walkers. I am a savvy enough debater to remain neutral and let them take the lead.
Ohh, yea, the neutrality is just dripping off you. You're savvy-ness is a marvel to the developed world, Churchill and Cicero bow to you're rhetorical skills.