DonValleyRainbow
Senior Member
There are way too many stations on the Sheppard East LRT.
Agreed. This is what gives ammo to Ford Nation, LRTs that go too slow because they stop too often like a streetcar.
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There are way too many stations on the Sheppard East LRT.
Nonsense. Stop spacing on Sheppard will be comparable to the subway in the core. You can't make it really wide because you are replacing local bus service wih the LRT.
Nonsense. Stop spacing on Sheppard will be comparable to the subway in the core. You can't make it really wide because you are replacing local bus service wih the LRT.
Agreed. This is what gives ammo to Ford Nation, LRTs that go too slow because they stop too often like a streetcar.
There was a poll that showed Chow would win an election if ran as well.
Actually, IIRC the 2010 Miller-in-the-lead poll was *late* in the election, i.e. in that closing 3-month period when Ford was flying high; that is, had Miller run again, he would have bested frontrunner Ford.
By comparison, at an equivalent moment in 2014, Chow was already 3rd and fading.
He was still a hypothetical contender. He was not able to even enter the race at that point then. He was an idea in peoples minds, not a candidate with a platform engaged in debates with other candidates.
Can't please both worlds - it's either better local service (more stops), or fast crosstown service (less stops). When it's done in-between, a-la current planned setup, you get the worse of both.If only we could make LRTs with fewer stops. Sadly, this is impossible. It's not as if other cities have built LRTs with wider stops...
So much for Tory and Wynne being new BFFs! The provincial Liberals talk a good game when it comes to the social safety net, but when it comes down to it they are happy to abandon responsibility for social housing and all the other things that the Harris government downloaded.
That's not the point...you claimed that Miller was highly unpopular and was not as good at budgeting as Ford, when the evidence suggests otherwise.
It's so sad to still see anti-Miller Ford apologists this late in the game.
Lets see Toronto pop 2.8M the rest of the province 10.7M
Please point out where I said that.