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Rob Ford's transportation platform, more subways and buses, fewer streetcars! (pg. 7)
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
are you talking about the tourist street cars? they are just there for touristic value. No residents actually take them. ALso they never stop. You jump on when they are on a red light.
The street cars that actually function as transit are on right of ways that were put in when the city was built. Which is why they left them and got rid of the rest. |
Well that difference just makes ours even more worth saving doesn't it? Thank you. |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by VDub
She's running again...
Christ she's 89!!! |
i dont even think shes putting up lawn signs or spending money. The queen needs to be dethroned! |
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| StereoPrincess |
i hate the ttc in general. it is very unreliable and i hate being with so many dirty and inconsiderate people.
streetcars are better to be on but they are definitely not better for the cars on the road.
why can't they build something like the OCTranspo system in Ottawa. so fast to get around since the roads are built only for the buses. I didn't mind that at all. |
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| StereoPrincess |
| oh. but rob ford, he ing sucks and should go away. he actually won't do anything for the TTC, he said himself that he hates the TTC and always drives and will continue to drive. |
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| Spam |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
i dont even think shes putting up lawn signs or spending money. The queen needs to be dethroned! |
She hasn't truly campaigned for as long as I've been alive. I've not seen a single Hazel sign or campaign announcement from her in my entire life. What scares me is, if she's dethroned... it'll be someone like Carolyn Parrish as mayor after her... Which is fine... I need a reason to move up north anyway. |
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| Spam |
| quote: | Originally posted by StereoPrincess
oh. but rob ford, he ing sucks and should go away. he actually won't do anything for the TTC, he said himself that he hates the TTC and always drives and will continue to drive. |
If it takes him 4 years to destroy the unions and never be elected again, he'll have done his job. |
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by StereoPrincess
why can't they build something like the OCTranspo system in Ottawa. so fast to get around since the roads are built only for the buses. I didn't mind that at all. |
It's too late... the Transitway was built while the city was still small and expanding around a city with a large green belt. It was cheaper than building a subway system. OC Transpo also had slinky buses decades before any other major city.
/Go Gee Gees!
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| smuncky |
| quote: | Originally posted by gilboman
lol at the idiots who thinks Rob Ford has any idea what he's doing. |
funny how this is the only good post in this thread. |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Ford really doesn’t like streetcars in any form, and trots out the expected complaints about how construction fouls up businesses, how streetcars delay traffic and thereby create more pollution. Indeed, he would shut down our streetcar network and sell our new cars elsewhere to recoup whatever money could be had. The platform material says Ford would remove “some streetcars”, but according to a media source, Ford wants to get rid of all streetcars in 10 years.
Oddly enough, they would be replaced by even more buses that would sit in the same traffic jams behind delivery trucks, illegally parked cars, taxis, J-walking pedestrians, and a whole range of problems common to congested 4-lane roads that cannot simultaneously be speedy arterials and local streets. Buses pulling into stops on narrow streets with parking regularly block through traffic because they can’t properly reach the curb. Bus bays are not an option because there are usually buildings right at the sidewalk. |
excellent points this guy makes, me thinks - http://stevemunro.ca/?p=4333 |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
Well that difference just makes ours even more worth saving doesn't it? Thank you. |
the touristy street cars are on roads that arent even busy.
The only streetcars we should keep in toronto are spadina/queens quay and st clair. And why not run vintage cars on those for tourists? The rest need to go! |
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| Jayx1 |
steve munro is half the problem, not half the solution. He's an anti car nut as opposed to a transportation enthusiast. |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
steve munro is half the problem, not half the solution. He's an anti car nut as opposed to a transportation enthusiast. |
not sure where you're getting the anti car nut part? |
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