We could even have a special weekly update from the "rightie chat group mole" to give listeners the inside angle.
Metrolinx CEO admits that Line 6 cannot handle the Toronto winter
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They'll never admit that the traffic signals synchronization is one of the major problems. Well that and over development with no plan to improve roads.
That would be metrolinx and DoFo.
Like the Scarborough subway was his crackhead brother.
No the mass development of Toronto with no infrastructure improvements happened when Lastman and Miller were mayor and McGuinty and Wynne were the Premiers of Ontario. Just like with Trump you blame the current government for failures caused by past government.
It goes back to the 70's when the Tories greenlighted the development of downtown Toronto while shutting down the Allen extension, the Scarborough Freeway Project and every other super highway proposal, all while refusing to extend RT / subway lines into the burbs.
Just imagine how much more livable Toronto would have been if enormous and deep gashes were gouged out of the physical landscape and the societal and cultural fabric of the city to impose a motor vehicle utopia of life and soul sucking, anaconda-like, constricting and suffocating encirclement of highways!
Just as highways gutted many, many North American city centers, you wished and still wish for the 1950's "car as king" failed experiment to be visited upon Toronto.
Lunacy.
Stable genius thinking at it's best.
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That's not what I wrote, is it Anby?
Oh and my big thread is now up to 985,000 views. That's 3k new views in the last 14 hours.
And what was his plan. Take up roads ways and put street cars everywhere in the city. Get real.
LRT's.
Built by the TTC, paid by the province fully.
A better plan for the full city.
If the TTC knew what they were doing these contract would've never been handed out to Metrolinx. That has nothing to do with DoFo.
I agree. More RT is a fantastic idea.
But most of the plans get cancelled. And the ones that get made are a decade behind schedule, like the Eglinton. Or don't even work like the Finch line.
Let's be blunt. City Council is too incompetent to get anything done and that's why Toronto is in such a mess.
The Eglinton line should have been built in 1970 FFS, when Scarborough and Don Mills were first developed!!!! WTF was City Council doing for 50 fucking years?!?!?!?!?!
DoFo and his crackhead brother cancelled transit city, that was the best and most complete plan to date.
Now he's trying to build parts of it but through Metrolinx, which is just a depository for tory insiders.
Look how much of the plan DoFo is building after Rob cancelled it.
Transit City - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Let's really be blunt now, shall we?
U really haven't got much of a clue what you're railing about, now do you?
"Pssst, madam, your misplaced rantings are showing."
My big thread is at 996,000 views now Anby. In a day or two, it will hit 1M views and become the greatest thread in TERB history. I know that secretly you're cheering me on.
On a board where most threads get only a few hundred views, this is a truly exceptional achievement. As Toronto's poet laureate Cambyses Campbell once wrote:
Amidst the turmoil and the goats
Where barrows chew the tasty oats
Amidst the snowy solitude
Where silent poets sit and brood
Amidst the opulent retreats
Amidst the opaline defeats
A tower rises bold and tall
To flourish there and never fall
To dominate the glossy mall
And overawe them, one and all.
Let's stand together and perhaps reach out and shyly take each other's arm, in a comradely and non sexual way to admire Mandrill's Great Trump Thread, the "bold, tall tower" of the TERB Politics Board.
@WyattEarp @Frankfooter
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So are you saying TERB needs to appoint a new traffic congestion czar?My big thread is at 996,000 views now Anby. In a day or two, it will hit 1M views and become the greatest thread in TERB history. I know that secretly you're cheering me on.
On a board where most threads get only a few hundred views, this is a truly exceptional achievement. As Toronto's poet laureate Cambyses Campbell once wrote:
Amidst the turmoil and the goats
Where barrows chew the tasty oats
Amidst the snowy solitude
Where silent poets sit and brood
Amidst the opulent retreats
Amidst the opaline defeats
A tower rises bold and tall
To flourish there and never fall
To dominate the glossy mall
And overawe them, one and all.
Let's stand together and perhaps reach out and shyly take each other's arm, in a comradely and non sexual way to admire Mandrill's Great Trump Thread, the "bold, tall tower" of the TERB Politics Board.
@WyattEarp @Frankfooter
Scarborough residents say they're being left out of transit improvements in the city
Depsite plans to open a busway in the borough, Scarborough residents say they’re being left behind as major transit lines open across Toronto.
Rhoda Potter, president of the Agincourt Village Community Association, has lived in Scarborough for more than 50 years and says her community is waiting to see a subway line come to fruition.
“Many people in Scarborough cannot afford a car. They need to take public transit and it takes them hours to get anywhere,” she said.
Potter says she's been attending Metrolinx meetings and talking with MPs to advocate for her community
Scarborough has been without a subway line since the Scarborough RT shut down in 2022 after a train derailment. In the meantime, the city put in designated bus lanes and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow recently announced that a busway will open on the old RT route in September.
But Potter said the busway does not solve Scarborough's "desert of of higher order public transit."
The city is planning the Eglinton East light-rail transit project that would, per its website, serve eastern Scarborough from Kennedy Station to Malvern Town Centre. But community members in Scarborough haven’t heard about a timeline for the project.
More focus on getting downtown, not around Scarborough: resident
Krissan Veerasingam is the board co-chair for TTCriders, a volunteer advocacy group of transit riders. He grew up in Scarborough.
“It feels like everywhere else, transit is being invested in and projects are being completed,” he said. “Whereas in Scarborough, we've actually gone backwards in terms of the transit infrastructure we had.”
The long-delayed Finch West LRT opened on Dec. 7. And the Eglinton Crosstown, even further delayed, recently completed its last day of testing. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has said it could open in 2026 or "very soon after."
Potter says better transit options are needed to speed up travel within Scarborough and east-end Toronto. But, she says, most interim solutions and in-the-works developments, like bus rapid transit and the Scarborough Subway Extension, are geared towards transporting people to the city’s core.
“We need to be able to get around here as well. We don't all want to go to Union,” she said.
The 'transit poverty' gap
Veerasingam says the interim bus lanes implemented by the city are a “Band-Aid solution,” and that a transit line like the Eglinton East LRT would require financial backing from the province and the federal government.
“When we don't prioritize these projects that serve the most underserved people in our community, the effect is felt wider than just this transit project,” said Veerasingam.
The lack of public transit excludes community members from opportunities that could support socio-economic advancement, says Steven Farber, a professor of transportation geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus.
“That makes it much harder for those folks to just go out and conduct their normal daily life activities, whether it's getting to school, taking care of kids, visiting family, getting to work, medical appointments,” he said.
Farber calls this phenomenon “transportation poverty" gap.
“The longer we wait to start correcting this situation, the worse things are going to get for everyone,” he said.
The Eglinton East LRT is especially important for Scarborough, Farber says, because it would serve as a connection between communities deep within the borough.
Potter says a transit line in Scarborough would also increase employment and economic opportunities.
“We are becoming inundated with condo development and housing, where everybody has to go somewhere else to go to work,” said Potter. “If you put in the public transit system, we know that businesses are attracted to that.”
City council has approved an early stage "10 per cent functional design" plan for the Eglinton East LRT, which was submitted to the province, according to a statement from city spokesperson Laura McQuillan.
She says the city will work on a "30 per cent design" expanding on the initial plan in 2026.
As for funding, city spokesperson Saira Virani, "commitments from our provincial and federal partners will be confirmed as the project progresses."
Depsite plans to open a busway in the borough, Scarborough residents say they’re being left behind as major transit lines open across Toronto.
Rhoda Potter, president of the Agincourt Village Community Association, has lived in Scarborough for more than 50 years and says her community is waiting to see a subway line come to fruition.
“Many people in Scarborough cannot afford a car. They need to take public transit and it takes them hours to get anywhere,” she said.
Potter says she's been attending Metrolinx meetings and talking with MPs to advocate for her community
Scarborough has been without a subway line since the Scarborough RT shut down in 2022 after a train derailment. In the meantime, the city put in designated bus lanes and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow recently announced that a busway will open on the old RT route in September.
But Potter said the busway does not solve Scarborough's "desert of of higher order public transit."
The city is planning the Eglinton East light-rail transit project that would, per its website, serve eastern Scarborough from Kennedy Station to Malvern Town Centre. But community members in Scarborough haven’t heard about a timeline for the project.
More focus on getting downtown, not around Scarborough: resident
Krissan Veerasingam is the board co-chair for TTCriders, a volunteer advocacy group of transit riders. He grew up in Scarborough.
“It feels like everywhere else, transit is being invested in and projects are being completed,” he said. “Whereas in Scarborough, we've actually gone backwards in terms of the transit infrastructure we had.”
The long-delayed Finch West LRT opened on Dec. 7. And the Eglinton Crosstown, even further delayed, recently completed its last day of testing. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has said it could open in 2026 or "very soon after."
Potter says better transit options are needed to speed up travel within Scarborough and east-end Toronto. But, she says, most interim solutions and in-the-works developments, like bus rapid transit and the Scarborough Subway Extension, are geared towards transporting people to the city’s core.
“We need to be able to get around here as well. We don't all want to go to Union,” she said.
The 'transit poverty' gap
Veerasingam says the interim bus lanes implemented by the city are a “Band-Aid solution,” and that a transit line like the Eglinton East LRT would require financial backing from the province and the federal government.
“When we don't prioritize these projects that serve the most underserved people in our community, the effect is felt wider than just this transit project,” said Veerasingam.
The lack of public transit excludes community members from opportunities that could support socio-economic advancement, says Steven Farber, a professor of transportation geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus.
“That makes it much harder for those folks to just go out and conduct their normal daily life activities, whether it's getting to school, taking care of kids, visiting family, getting to work, medical appointments,” he said.
Farber calls this phenomenon “transportation poverty" gap.
“The longer we wait to start correcting this situation, the worse things are going to get for everyone,” he said.
The Eglinton East LRT is especially important for Scarborough, Farber says, because it would serve as a connection between communities deep within the borough.
Potter says a transit line in Scarborough would also increase employment and economic opportunities.
“We are becoming inundated with condo development and housing, where everybody has to go somewhere else to go to work,” said Potter. “If you put in the public transit system, we know that businesses are attracted to that.”
City council has approved an early stage "10 per cent functional design" plan for the Eglinton East LRT, which was submitted to the province, according to a statement from city spokesperson Laura McQuillan.
She says the city will work on a "30 per cent design" expanding on the initial plan in 2026.
As for funding, city spokesperson Saira Virani, "commitments from our provincial and federal partners will be confirmed as the project progresses."
