That is true of any mass market merchandiser, whether it's Blockbuster or Wal-Mart or Costco: the public demands selection and price above all else. Damn service. I remember when I put moon rays in my back yard of my house: Canadian Tire had 2 or 3 to choose from, the (then) new Home Depot at...

16 minutes from my home at Wellesley/Sherbourne to Warden/Eglinton. I drove it for 11 years and know the route well. There's lots of shopping up there, and on a rainy day we can continue up to Fairview Mall or over to Yorkdale - even Ikea. None of that can be done easily or conveniently by...

I walk by the site every day and can't wait until they are done: the mess, the noise. Then again, I walked by the site when I was in highschool, 28 years ago when they started excavating, so I guess they are in no rush!

:D Sorry if my opinon bothers you. Like I've said many times, the underground garages in the condos along Queens Quay are not empty, nor are the ones in City Place. Or Water Park City. Besides, you are correct about one thing: only about 6-9% cycle or walk to work, yet they are...

???? ARE YOU SERIOUS? The mess on Parliament St. is not from cars. The concrete expansion with the steel streetcar tracks cause a lot of damage. Hell, anyone who lives beside the streetcar tracks can feel them lumbering by. I'd hardly equate a 3,400 lb car with that kind of damage. And...

But my opinion is in the majority and since this is a democracy (last time I looked), I will continue to vote with my car.

With oil down 31% from its mid-July peak, we should be paying $1 a litre NOW. Funny how that hasn't happened yet. The news is bad every day. It's almost enough to make you not want to read the business section any more. Personally, I am not too worried, but if panic sets in, it could...

Build it, don't build it - doesn't matter to me. With the mess Eastern Ave. has become and the Gardiner stump, it's easier to drive up the DVP to the Smart Centers at Eglinton/Warden. They have a huge Wal-Mart, Canadian Tire, etc. Even taking the Gardiner to Sherway Gardens with all their new...

Last year when I drove along Mulholland Dr. (at the top of a mountain, for Gawd's sake!) in L.A., the speed limit was 35 mph. In a Mustang, I could barely maintain that speed without going over a cliff! The whole time I kept thinking, "God Bless America! If this were Ontario, the speed limit...

Compared to Europe and the U.S., our speed limits are already ridiculously low - designed more for ticket revenue than efficient traffic movement. But as usual, all solutions are about dumbing down the rules to the lowest common denominator. There should be fewer signs, fewer rules and...

Okay, this little pissing match even lost me a couple pages back. To wrap this up, I would only support tolling on any of the city's highways for extra capacity being built, not for what we already have. If some consortium wants to build a 8 lane expressway under the Humber Bay and charge...

Not on the Wellesley line, at least. The buses are nearly empty and, yes, they are waiting in single file behind the cars gridlocked at each intersection. But - hey, let's continue building those pretty towers, shall we?

One of the most frightful night trips in my life (and living in Collingwood for 11 years there were a host of scary night trips in blizzards, etc.) was on a return trip from Florida, via the 401 and Guelph: fog, freezing rain. On the back of the Niagara Escarpment there is some wierd, changing...

Well, with the Yonge subway line down last night, perhaps the sidewalks should have been tolled. :rolleyes: This is NewThink social engineering, nothing more, nothing less. Cars=bad; transit=good. All municipal energies are directed at getting cars - any cars, off the roads, rather than...

If anything, this post only points to the dangers of the 'left' splintering and becoming disunited. The NDP and the Greens are doing just that. Personally, I can't see how one Conservative majority could accomplish all that. To some extent, the Civil Service runs the country anyway.;)

There are 2 flaws with that argument: 1) For all intents and purposes Richmond and Adelaide are only TWO lanes, due to the interminable construction of highrises on both those thoroughfares. I see the debacle that Richmond has become in the morning when it is jammed from Jarvis as far as I...

Whether we like it or not, we are in a socialist state. Why not make fire and ambulance user pay, too? Apartment insurance, auto insurance - even life insurance have their costs spread around to everyone who participates, whether they use it or not. How about lifeguards at public beaches...

Who else other than motorists pay gas taxes? I doubt a lawnmower user would pay much in the way of gas taxes in a year. I guesstimate I pay about $1,000 in gas tax per year. Does a cyclist pay gas taxes? Someone using the TTC indirectly pays some gas taxes, if they ride surface routes. The...

Well, you start paying $1,000 a year in gasoline taxes, $140 for a license sticker and $3k in taxes to buy a bicycle and then maybe we can talk about equal sharing of the roads. Oh, and $2 a half hour to tie your bike up at the side of the road.

Well, I use Birchmount and Kingston Rd. quite often, even in the winter, and I rarely see bicycles on the roads in that area. I understand the concept of 'build it and they will come,' but (and this is harping again) where does this city get off that 4 lanes is acceptable in an urban area of...