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More traffic chaos coming for Toronto - University Av bike lanes! -- Jayx1 bitches about everything (pg. 9)
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by Time2Burn
Speaking of New York. Jay, how do you feel about charging tolls to 905'ers who work in the downtown core? Would that be a viable way to fund all the transportation infrastructure improvements you would like to see? |
I personally favour this (as it will provide funding and incentive); however, I would strongly recommend that before anyone do such a thing they do a comprehensive audit of the economic impact, as it does have potential to be significant. Granted, it wasn't in London but London's transit is lightyears ahead of Toronto's. |
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| smuncky |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
to change one LRT route into a garden in New York City when there are 4 more next to it to replace it (i think they built a new underground one in its place) is a little different than shutting down the only freeway that exists downtown and replacing it with nothing.
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Can you elaborate on the LRT are you talking about? |
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| Espresso |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
I agree... so stop forcing your lifestyle down my throat by passing laws that do so. |
LOL, this is the funniest thing I've read here in months.
it's like the concept of absurd theater condensed into 1 sentence. |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Time2Burn
Speaking of New York. Jay, how do you feel about charging tolls to 905'ers who work in the downtown core? Would that be a viable way to fund all the transportation infrastructure improvements you would like to see? |
Again, if we had the transportation options like new york, then perhaps tolls wouldnt be such a bad thing. Right now they are not a good idea simply because there are not enough options to get downtown as it is.
Also remember that the tolls pay for the bridges and tunnels that lead into and out of New york. Something that we dont need |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by smuncky
Can you elaborate on the LRT are you talking about? |
The train that ran on this route was an LRT. In fact, these trains were the true definition of an LRT as opposed to glorified streetcars in toronto |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by PivotTechno
What policy/policies are you referring to, exactly, and who's running around enforcing it? |
lets start with the anti car crowd at city hall. One way streets to nowhere, bike lanes at the sacrifice of car lanes, parking policy that is increasingly prohbitive. Who enforces it? The horde of parking police that the city has hired to rake in the cash. Everytime i go downtown now i always come in off the DVP from bloor or spadina from gardiner. I always time how long it takes for me to see the first parking cop. So far im up to 4 and a half minutes :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
| quote: | | Seriously man, when you consistently tout the "Leftie Agenda" as the reason for your pissed-offedness, you make yourself out to be rather narrow-minded in scope. The issues we deal with on a day-to-day basis are human issues; "left", "right", are simply words we use to distract us from that fact, to the point where no one knows where the middle lies anymore. |
because thats the side of the political spectrum that tends to have these whack job ideas that i dont support. If you dont realize this then you dont know your politics very well.
| quote: | | Your ideas have a lot of validity and I certainly agree with much of what you see as being necessary to improve this city, but you make it out to be that your instructions are the only way to go in order to right the listing ship. Total turnoff. |
I have strong opinions and i dont apologize for it. Im sick of seeing this city get trashed by moronic leadership. I dont postulate to have all the right answers, but i cant tell you that the direction we are heading in is definitely the WRONG way. |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by jester
(Courtesy of Gothamist)
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I love it... and when all our streets become one way, we get rid of streetcars, and we have sufficient transit underground this might be an idea for toronto to explore ;) |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by mute79
such beauty, no highways through manhattan.. why must we have gardiner through our d/t? |
Actually there are 3 freeways in Manhatten. One is the FDR which runs along the edge of the borough much like our gardiner does. Also what this fails to show is the grand street that is canal street that links the queens tunnel to the lincoln tunnel. I am able to get across the island from tunnel to tunnel in 10 mins. Now, getting through the tunnel is a different story! LOL |
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| exraver |
You think your american dream is gonna last forever?
Big house in suburbs, wife, kids, SUV or two.
Country with 5% of world population using 25% of world resources?
I don't think so, and all recent trouble in US point to some big changes in coming years.
And, as much as I like Canada, without strong US, I don't see bright future for us.
So maybe your generation will be able to sustain this lifestyle, but what about your kids, or grandkids? |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by exraver
You think your american dream is gonna last forever?
Big house in suburbs, wife, kids, SUV or two.
Country with 5% of world population using 25% of world resources?
I don't think so, and all recent trouble in US point to some big changes in coming years.
And, as much as I like Canada, without strong US, I don't see bright future for us.
So maybe your generation will be able to sustain this lifestyle, but what about your kids, or grandkids? |
when oil "runs out" u can be certain that the technology that has already been developed and shelved will come into play. To say that "the american dream" as you call it is going to collapse from lack of oil is 1 dimensional thinking. If anything, The chinese and much of the developing world are starting to live the american dream and then some! |
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| exraver |
News flash for naive lemmings, excerpts from Pentagon's Joint Operating Environment 2010
Page 26:
To meet even the conservative growth rates posited in the economics section, global energy production would need to rise by 1.3% per year. By the 2030s, demand is estimated to be nearly 50% greater than today. To meet that demand, even assuming more effective conservation measures, the world would need to add roughly the equivalent of Saudi Arabia’s current energy production every seven years.
Page 29:
At present, investment in oil production is only beginning to pick up, with the result that production could reach a prolonged plateau. By 2030, the world will require production of 118 MBD, but energy producers may only be producing 100 MBD unless there are major changes in current investment and drilling capacity.
By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could reach nearly 10 MBD.
* MBD=Million Barrels per Day.
For people suffering from OADD, online attention deficit disorder, couple pics from the same report:
As you can see, american military does not count on some magic technology breakthrough, and nor should you. |
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| Jayx1 |
again thats based on what we know to be current technology and a dependence on oil..
There was a time that they predicted that wed run out of food by 1970 and then new technology allowed us to quadruple our yields. I am positive the same thing is happening now.
i think the scare tactics are being used to scare everyone to part with more of their money to be honest. Look at Mcguinty's new green energy plan that consists of some windmills and a huge whack on our monthly bills.
Oh and if i see that "i want to pay more for electricity" bull... er i mean bullfrog ad one more time i think om gonna vomit |
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