Sunday, August 24, 2008
CNE Attendance
Anyone else notice that in the last few years the CNE doesn’t announce attendance? Could it be that attendance is falling off the map?
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Blast from the past
Anyone old enough to remember the Mississauga fire of 1979 must have been worried about this today.
Although it was a miracle that thousands escaped unscathed from a series of massive explosions in the city’s northwest end early today, a firefighter has died and at least one other person is unaccounted for.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Scrap the streetcar
Once more, it’s clear from this article that it’s time for the TTC to abandon the streetcar. I would love to see the cost savings of ridding the TTC of track, wire, and streetcar maintenance. Not to mention all the massive service delays caused by the old trains. They make no sense, are inflexible, and are clearly costing a fortune now and in the future.
How they are such an untouchable is testament to the amazing screaming engineer male wannabee activists that shout down every attempt to scrap the dinosaurs. The Toronto Sun should get behind this fiasco, and give up on its stupid push to scrap the Gardiner.
The TTC has failed to attract a single qualified bidder for a historic $1.25-billion contract to replace its aging streetcar fleet.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Gardiner is needed
I don’t know what kool-aid the Toronto Sun has drunk on tearing downing the Gardiner, but at least the Star prints a few articles from those that know about how crazy it is to tear any part of it down.
Infrastructure funds would be better spent on improving city’s appallingly bad roads
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Why not the Gardiner
While Toronto is busy tearing down its useful throughways and viaducts, Japan shows the beauty of them.
Friday, May 30, 2008
War on car continues
Driving a car in Toronto in the future just got harder.
A proposal to tear down part of the Gardiner Expressway will kill plans to extend Front St., Toronto’s deputy mayor said this morning.
Can we expect anything less from the anti-car cabal running Toronto?
As for the Don River portlands, what view of the lake exactly are they expecting to see? Last I looked, a decrepit Keating channel, buttressing a small bay, blocked by an island of squatters is the actual “lake view”.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Mega anti-car
Old, white, single, has probably rented all his life somewhere near Church and College - all me just guessing at the stereotype of Toronto’s #1 car hater.
Whatever the appeal of the car may be, mobility has little to do with it.
The odd thing is that most that take the TTC would never call it the better way.
Yes, I read this guy just to irritate myself.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Ghostly bike
I’m no fan of mixing bikes up with motorized traffic on major routes, but I had to pause when I saw the above memorial on Bayview Ave. the other day.
Here is the background on the story...I honestly don’t know why people risk their lives driving in traffic on a bike in Toronto. It can’t be worth it.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Streetcars must die!
There’s nothing in this article that convinces me that a streetcar is more efficient or cost effective than a bus.
A few letters tell the rest of the tale.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Worker killed, subway service curtailed
Another day, another closed rail line.
Stranded commuters struggled to get to work.
Tara Kubicki, 31, found her bus stop was so crowded she ended up walking north and catching a bus to Eglinton, which took her an hour.
Yet another example of how rail is only efficient if it’s working, because if it’s not, nothing moves.
It’s time to give up on the subway and streetcar pipe dream and switch to busways and widened roadways. Cheaper and far more flexible.
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Time for a fence
What with the Prince Edward Viaduct now luminously veiled, perhaps the Don Mills overpass should be fenced from jumpers.
Police shut down the westbound Hwy. 401 express lanes at Victoria Park Ave. at around 6:30 a.m. after the woman leapt from the Don Mills Rd. overpass.
Potential jumpers should note, that before you go ahead and ruin an east end motorist’s life, the Don Mills bridge is only 50 feet up, not high enough to kill oneself.
Apparently this lady got up off the shoulder and ran in front of someone to finish the job.
How selfish.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
To Serve and be PC (politically correct)
I don’t know about you, but stuff like this disturbs me...and it should bother you too.
Recruiting Drive For Members Of The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning Community
Clearly, changing the name from police force to service had a detrimental effect on a once proud unit. Now, it’s simply a reflection of the political whim of the day.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Fire night in Toronto
If you ever find yourself with not too much to do, check on Toronto Fire’s active calls website.
The following listed active incidents are dispatched from Toronto Fire Services Communication Centre. The contents are updated at five minute intervals from the CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) system.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Let’s ditch anti-car policies
Not much chance of this happening with Miller in for four more years.
Make it so that no more than one road in an area can be dug up at a time. Repairs cannot be allowed to last for months or even years. There must be fines about not meeting a deadline. Simple repairs must be done at night.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Floating joke
It’s still ridiculous that we have a ferry instead of a bridge to Canada’s largest city’s airport, but to hear that the overpriced boat crashed into the dock is priceless.
Note all the spelling errors in the article. Good proofreading, Starboys!
Sunday, October 8, 2006
Nightmare on St. Clair
The anti-car movement of the socialists at city hall steps up a level in midtown.
Projections show that when the work’s finished, a streetcar user on the new elevated track will save only five minutes on a round trip between Yonge St. and Keele St.
The areas that stopped the Spadina Expressway will feel a new level of pain by 2008. Looks good on them.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Whiners win round 1
Amazing that 5 people managed to help unemploy 400 - Brian echoes my views perfectly.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Dumpy Toronto
Brian links to Peggy Wente on Toronto, the dump.
A Link and a Few Quotes from Peggy Wente at the Globe and Mail
Just one problem. This city is a dump.
What strikes the visitor ... It’s the trash.
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Downing on Jacobs
Very few locals are brave enough to take on Jane, but Downing is.
I confess that for me, Jacobs was like that verse in Matthew about a prophet without honour. Much praise for her comes from activists who would follow a moose statue if it suited their ideology. Then there are those who admired her blunt talk but never puzzled their way through her books.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Gridlock queen dies
Odd I heard this news while stuck at the bottom of the Spadina Expressway stump.
Influential urban thinker and celebrated author Jane Jacobs has died at age 89. She would have been 90 next week.
I don’t celebrate people that essentially brought paralysis to a city. Christ, she didn’t even sound like she was from here.
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Toronto gridlock
John Downing’s from the old school of traffic—one of the last left who knew Sam Cass, the man that started our system of efficient traffic movement in Toronto. Too bad his work was never fully completed.
There’s no good news from Toronto’s gridlock front to show that there will be an improvement to the dumb way the city mismanages traffic.
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Competition to the TTC?
Perish the thought.
Is two-tier transit coming to Toronto?
Imagine, someone trying to offer a better service. Can the people of Toronto handle it? I doubt it.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Tap your past
Drawing upon seniors for sage advice is an age old idea - so doing it at the city government level shouldn’t be any different.
The good old days often weren’t, and good old politicians often were clay from the feet up. Yet I remember how surprised I was when I met Tony O to discover he wasn’t just a headline chaser but had a lively, quotable and informed view on every urban issue.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Dump the streetcar
Once more, Toronto is rising up against the streetcar. They make no sense, as this letter writer says.
However, no one has asked the fundamental question. Why does Toronto stubbornly stick with antiquated streetcars at all? There are reasons why virtually all other North American cities have stopped using streetcars.
It’s still up in the air whether the whole St. Clair project will ever go ahead.
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Put a sock in it
Blatchford has no time (click on google title) for the blubbering citycrat admitting her affair.
Mary, mother of God, hear my prayer: Make Pam Coburn shut up.
Don’t these idiots have any shame? Sure, people have affairs, but dragging your kids out to a press conference to parade your stupidity in front of the world borders on child abuse. What was she looking for, the child-sympathy factor?
Both should be fired: she for promoting someone clearly not entitled to the job, and he for being a cheating, lying deceptive bum who can’t maintain his marriage vows. Clearly we don’t need two cheaters playing with taxpayer dollars.