someMidTowner
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Today:
I know that the SAL article is what brought about this discussion this week, but I don't want to give her any more mouseclicks. Was she just raging to meet her daily quota, or was there a reason - i.e. is some part of this being voted on in council this week?
Your grip on reality is shaky. How could it possibly benefit anyone to deliberately falsify something like this? This is just another one of those cognitive dissonance ridiculous statements that seem to continue to follow Miller around -- he must have done something evil because his plan does not follow my preferred plan.
Given you've previously demonstrated you completely technically incompetent in theses areas, with your poorly-researched and erroneous comments, suddenly we're supposed to accept that your competent to make such comments?Because these projections are only realistic if hardly any development gets built along the line.
Given you've previously demonstrated you completely technically incompetent in theses areas, with your poorly-researched and erroneous comments, suddenly we're supposed to accept that your competent to make such comments?
To suggest that someone well known to have such integrity as David Miller would tamper with such a study to cook the results puts in well into nutbar territory. To believe that the professionals who completed the work would let such grossly unethical interference to take place, putting their careers and livelihood at risk, is so far beyond nutbar territory, that one can only assume that you are either institutionalized, or will be soon. The only other possible explanation is your trolling.
However, if you are sure of this, why not contact the appropriate regulatory authorities with your concerns, so they can discipline the professionals who committed such unethical acts. I doubt you'll actually do this, because you know your full of it.
I agree with you. In general, people want traffic to move slow in their own neighbourhood, and fast in other people's neighbourhoods. This includes the business owners in particular. Urban businesses rely on walk-in and bike-in traffic much more than drive in traffic, so the slower and more pedestrian/cycling friendly you can make a street the more customers you will get.
To suggest that someone well known to have such integrity as David Miller would tamper with such a study to cook the results puts in well into nutbar territory. To believe that the professionals who completed the work would let such grossly unethical interference to take place, putting their careers and livelihood at risk, is so far beyond nutbar territory, that one can only assume that you are either institutionalized, or will be soon. The only other possible explanation is your trolling.
To suggest that someone well known to have such integrity as David Miller would tamper with such a study to cook the results puts in well into nutbar territory. To believe that the professionals who completed the work would let such grossly unethical interference to take place, putting their careers and livelihood at risk, is so far beyond nutbar territory, that one can only assume that you are either institutionalized, or will be soon. The only other possible explanation is your trolling.
David Miller was really stubborn, seemed to have this weird insistence of using LRT for everything, and refused to consider subways, including for Eglinton. I don't think he really understood these issues very well.
My point with these ridership projections is that I think that they are only valid if there are relatively low levels of development along the line. It is very hard to predict the future but clearly if a lot of tall buildings get built along these lines, ridership will be much higher than projected. No one really knows how fast Toronto will be growing a few decades in the future, it is entirely possible that Toronto's growth will slow down dramatically (maybe the government reduces immigration levels or something). I don't think the Miller administration really put much effect into these projections, they were a very minor part of preparing the environmental assessments for these lines. Any projection, regardless of how well it is done, is going to have an enormous degree of uncertainty. You can never prove whether these projections are right or wrong until the line actually opens and we see how bad the overcrowding is. Also Highway 401 traffic is unbelievably bad - it can take 90 minutes to get from 410 to 404 in afternoon rush hour if there is bad weather - and I can't help but think that a huge number of people who work near the airport will use this line, unless there is some alternative (maybe a regular non premium fare GO train to the airport?). I could be wrong.
...and wonder if he was actually born in San Francisco and not another city in the Bay Area.Sooner or later he will start asking for Miller's birth certificate.
Why do you insist on saying such untruths? Miller pushed ahead with the Spadina line extension to Steeles ... and even played along with the unnecessary extension to Highway 7 the Ontario government insisted, committing that the entire operating subsidy for this line would be paid for by Toronto with no Region of York contribution.David Miller was really stubborn, seemed to have this weird insistence of using LRT for everything, and refused to consider subways, including for Eglinton. I don't think he really understood these issues very well.