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    More Cities Banning Cars

    Well, we can just swap internet links and not bother to have a discussion, can't we? Are we going to trust the same studies that claim tearing down the end of the Gardiner will 'only' add 2-3 minutes to a commute? Whose figures are we going to use? I don't need studies to tell me that the...
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    More Cities Banning Cars

    True, but it's because of this woefully inadequate base infrastructure that we can't afford to do all the nice things, like close off Yonge St. in the summer or tear down the Gardiner. I'd love to not have to take the Gardiner every day, but if you drive, there is no choice. I can't...
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    Hume: City Building; Vancouver vs. Toronto

    I have a powerboat, sir. I've criss-crossed Lake Ontario and Georgian Bay many times. Sandbanks is fantastic, to be sure, but not quite a 10 minute walk from downtown. Three hours of rough traffic is not the same as a stroll to English Bay. Anyway, clearly people have their own opinions...
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    GM and Chrysler Pushing for Merger

    Very true.
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    More Cities Banning Cars

    A quick google search reveals a dozen sources that the 401 is the busiest highway in North America. Hmm, why is that? HELLO - because there is no other east-west thoroughfare in the entire city! The 401 ends up handling both cross-town and local traffic, which it wasn't designed to do...
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    More Cities Banning Cars

    Fortunately for you, you are driving 'against' traffic. I, too, drove from downtown to Warden/Eglinton for 11 years and I averaged 20 minutes, but I felt very sorry for all those poor soles heading 'downtown' in the morning. Although the odd thing about the DVP, is I often find it stopped...
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    More Cities Banning Cars

    The trouble with Richmond is that in many places either the left or right lane is closed off due to a building going up. Lately, southbound Jarvis is effected because cement mixers lurk on the corner of Richmond/Jarvis waiting their turn at a new development just west of Jarvis. :rolleyes...
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    More Cities Banning Cars

    Chicago. I was there in July. I had no problem getting out of our hotel. We drove all over the city those 4 days. Other than the construction north of O'Hara, it was fine. The entire reason I've become active on this site and other political arenas is because our traffic is the worst in...
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    Hume: City Building; Vancouver vs. Toronto

    Oh, puhlease - ever swim in Lake Ontario? Not only is it filthy, but you get one window in August where maybe, just maybe the water will climb up to 21 or 22 celsius. If you want nicer water, you gotta go to Wasaga, but then Geogian Bay is usually around 19 degrees. I've lived in both...
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    More Cities Banning Cars

    Great idea! And at the same time we can bulldoze all the condos on Bay St. and make Bay 6 lanes, no? Look at a map. University Ave. is all we have. Jarvis is a joke, thanks to the choke point at St. Lawrence Market. I'd love to see Yonge St. made into a long pedestrian Mall, but...
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    GM and Chrysler Pushing for Merger

    Not your fault, but blogger sites like UT exist for those who want to dig beneath the headlines, because the media is jaded and biased. People will walk around with the Consumers Reports like it is the bible. Mark Richardson of the Toyota Star and I have tangled on a few occasions for their...
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    Hume: City Building; Vancouver vs. Toronto

    Nothing beats having tulips coming up in February while we still expect 6 more weeks of snow here in Toronto. And Vancouver gets more hours of sunshine than Toronto. It's not like it pours rain, like we get here. When I walked to school as a kid, everyone wore rain coats and simply got...
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    Toronto Entertainment District

    The Entertainment District was more fun before they gave it a name. When Toronto had a lot of empty warehouse space, there were many after hours clubs tucked away that existed for years without anyone giving them a bother. The Skydome changed all that and the warehouse space became condos...
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    GM and Chrysler Pushing for Merger

    I never suggested it is a good thing; hence my using the term 'hapless consumers.' For good reasons, Japan is a paranoid nation and (unlike us) they will stick together for the greater good - or whatever perceived good they are spoon fed. However, under the now disbanded MITI, Japan Inc used...
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    GM and Chrysler Pushing for Merger

    Are you kidding me? Japan Inc has kept an artificially low yen for decades, big corporation in Japan can borrow at 0% (on the backs of hapless consumers) and Jim Press (who built Toyota in North America but defected to Chrysler 2 years ago - hmmm, I wonder why?) has admitted that the Japanese...

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