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Unfortunately, that's the reality of the "Mega City" that Toronto became in 1998. Under, Ford you had the old City of Toronto who did not like him and I suppose the wealthier areas that extend up the Bathurst-Yonge-Bayview corridor all the way up to Steeles. You cannot deny, rightly or wrongly, that the Ford brand still has some leverage in Etobicoke and Scarborough. Olivia Chow would not have had the personal baggage as the Fords, but again I feel if she was mayor that the Old City of Toronto would like her, but that she would be unpopular in some of the suburbs that hug the city limits. John Tory seemed like the compromise candidate, but it seems like he is going to have some work on his hands.
As long as they spend the next 3.5 years tearing up dirt, I don't care if it takes 10 years. At the very least the next person who comes in has to do something with miles of dug up earth.
Miller + Ford = 11 years, no new anything in transit. Miller spent 7 years that Ford undid in his one day in office, and then he built and dug nothing.
My councillor Minnan-wong came to my door and when I asked about improving transit, he said it would cost every man, woman and child an extra $1000 a year for 30 years to get a decent transit system, as if that would end the argument.
My reply? What's it cost not to do it? Just start digging. Boston proved it can be done.
My councillor Minnan-wong came to my door and when I asked about improving transit, he said it would cost every man, woman and child an extra $1000 a year for 30 years to get a decent transit system, as if that would end the argument.
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that sounds perfectly acceptable to me.
In 20 years, it will cost $2000 a year. Something has to be done and the earlier, the better.
^ this contrast sharply with the 2010 result, and only shows that a lot of people were very p*ssed by Miller.
I wasn't here in 2006 and so wouldn't know what mayor he was.
The one thing Ford did that impressed me was contracting out garbage collection west of Yonge st. This is true savings and we should keep doing that.
The areas that voted for John Tory match up almost exactly to the parts of the city that are dominated by the creative (or white collar/professional/college educated) class vs the service class that voted for Ford (suburbs) or Chow (inner city). The correlation is even stronger than in 2010 when white collar suburban wards still voted for Ford and more blue collar parts of the inner city still voted for Smitherman.
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