so than there should be no toll roads. if there are toll roads than build new roads to be toll roads. not use the old ones.

the 407 was built by a private company. not by the city, they didn't use an existing road either.

they should have tolls for everytime you fart. that releases toxic emissions into the atmosphere.

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Originally posted by dj_souvlaki they should have tolls for everytime you fart. that releases toxic emissions into the atmosphere.

and ensure your butt passes the emission test, because god knows there are some stinky farters with their deadly seeping gas. almost like a darth vader force choke

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Originally posted by chinamon not true. i say "ugh" but i am a tranny.

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Originally posted by kotsy lol colour me retarded

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Originally posted by Yohan and ensure your butt passes the emission test, because god knows there are some stinky farters with their deadly seeping gas. almost like a darth vader force choke

if your on the recieving end of some of my farts i really feel sorry for you my friend. i will send flowers to your grave.

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Originally posted by dj_souvlaki if your on the recieving end of some of my farts i really feel sorry for you my friend. i will send flowers to your grave.

i feel sorry for your gf more. unless she's taken to wearing a gas mask all the time

thanks for the flowers consideration though. very thoughtful of you

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Originally posted by chinamon not true. i say "ugh" but i am a tranny.

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Originally posted by kotsy lol colour me retarded

I swear Malek must be a clone of a right-wing shill. You fit the profile perfectly; when unable to maintain an intelligent discussion attempt a diversion, and if that fails, resort to personal attacks.

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Originally posted by dj_souvlaki so than there should be no toll roads. if there are toll roads than build new roads to be toll roads. not use the old ones.

Fundamentally, this is a call for state property. You don't seem to have any rational argument against toll roads - you just don't want to pay. It's for precisely this reason that nationalization is so prevalent, and also the reason why it never works - tragedy of the commons, as long as something's free then people will hoard it until it's unusable or there's none left.

You say "there should be no [x]" but all that means in reality is "I don't want [x]". Very different statements.

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the 407 was built by a private company. not by the city, they didn't use an existing road either.

Actually, the 407 was sold to a private company. Technically, it's not even a sale, it's a lease. That is exactly what should be done with other roads and highways - and you should get your facts straight before arguing.

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Originally posted by mute79 right-wing shill

The clue meter is reading zero.

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I agree with you diginut, tolls must solely be used to maintain the roads and expand them.

But you see, the thing is our income taxes and taxation schemes generaly speaking are higher than the USA for example. They don't mind paying tolls... whereas drivers here would be ticked: "on noes another tax!"

We already tax the citizens to maintain the roads. If someone can guarantee me that the govt will lower its taxes to the amount it expects to collect back from tolls, or road maintenance savings if handed back to the private, then I'm all for it.

Why so much cynism?

In Quebec until the early 90s, there were tolls on major bridges and highways. They were 10 or 25 cents a pop. Back in the days, ez-technology didn't exist, so toll booths created congestion. The govt finally decided to remove the tolls, and replace them with a few pennies on every gas liter sold. That seemed fair and everyone forgot about it.

Accountability on those pennies on the liter were lost, and the money collected merged with the rest of taxation collected by the govt. When cuts needed to be done right and left, roads took a beating. Everyone forgot that those tolls who became pennies were collected to keep roads in good shape.

The current generation of politicians are under lobbying pressure by the hippies and their chronies to reinstate tolls on bridges!!!! And no one is discussing the idea of removing that tax on the liter, but instead imposing even more tax on gas! And best of all, the money collected would solely go to mass transit which includes... biking lanes and useless tramways.

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Originally posted by malek Mute you call me a right wing nut, i describe myself as citizen with a memory.

Yikes, even more dangerous

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Originally posted by TO guy Yikes, even more dangerous

troll much?

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Originally posted by dj_souvlaki if your on the recieving end of some of my farts i really feel sorry for you my friend.

I could see that. Being on the receiving end of your posts is pretty bad as is

Anyways; the only way I would say that tearing down the Gardiner is a good idea is if they replaced it with a ground level freeway/highway and tolled it. Building a normal street with traffic lights would cause absolute chaos during rush hour. And you can't really expect people to just change their daily habits and start using public transit, which is strained as it is.

Face it; the whole transportation infrastructure of the GTA is beyond fucked. For them* to reach acceptable levels of efficiency billions of dollars would be needed to rework the whole system of highways and PT, and about 100 years of debating, scratching eachothers balls, blowing eachother, stabbing eachother in the back, bla bla bla bla bla and maybe then something will happen.

Tearing down the Gardiner, imo, will not help the city in any way at this point in time. And what I don't get is the whole "connecting the waterfront to the rest of the city" argument. How is it not connected right now? Is access somehow cut off??

* = the people who run this p.o.s city.

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Originally posted by malek If someone can guarantee me that the govt will lower its taxes to the amount it expects to collect back from tolls, or road maintenance savings if handed back to the private, then I'm all for it.

This city and province are run by the far Left. Taxes are not going to go down.

Tolls can be implemented efficiently and without traffic congestion using R/F devices and cameras (like the 407). I realize we're already paying for this through our taxes, and I hate it, but I'm also a realist, and as long as it is a closed system as mentioned above, toll roads will improve the traffic and road situation, and I don't have a problem paying for a tangible asset.

Most of what motorists are paying is subsidizing public mass transit anyway because those "business" units don't know how to run at a net profit, or even within a budget. But even if they tripled fares and improved service enough to keep the same number of riders and started making money, your taxes still wouldn't go down, it would just get shunted elsewhere. Taxes, once implemented, are rarely reduced and almost never eliminated.

Your condition is a reasonable one but not a practical one. Unless we see drastic changes in the political climate here, the TCO of a vehicle is only going to continue to increase.

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