Waterfront Toronto? That's like walking into a church and asking how many people here believe in God?
The time to make friends is over. This city has been on a downhill slide for 25 years. The Sue Ann Levy remark is cute. And apprapo. I used to loathe the Sun. I even picketed it once, 25 years ago. Claire Hoy used to make me foam at the mouth. In a bizarre twist of Life, I now find myself agreeing with the Sun far more than disagreeing.
Who coined the phrase, "When you're young if you aren't a liberal you have no heart, and when you're old if you aren't a conservative, you have no brain?" Very profound.
Let me take a different tact here:
I drive the Gardiner every day - supposedly against traffic. It is jammed in both directions usually at 8 in the morning or at 2 pm. Friday nights, it usually crawls from Kingsway all the way to the Spadina off-ramp.
And when I get off at Jarvis - every day, BTW, why am I sometimes backed up to Yonge St? Is this 905ers going to work? At 4:30 pm? Even at 6 pm?
What will happen to the 3 lanes of traffic I see whizzing above my head while I wait to make a left onto 2 laned Jarvis. Don't forget the tight squeeze in front of the market: Saturday and Sunday, one lane only please!
Rewind to 1996: I used to drive to Burnamthorpe/Dixie every day from the same Jarvis location. 25 minutes in the morning. Against traffic, there rarely was any tie ups. Naturally, inbound was a mess in the morning.
I am not talking about commuters here, boys and girls. Wake up. We have a 3 lane expressway servicing the entire downtown core of, conservatively half a million people - and growing. Now we want to behead it?
And these a#@clowns tell us that it will only add 2-3 minutes? What is the name of their dealer, because I am buying! Each light is 3-way, at Jarvis, Sherbourne, Parliament, and let's not forget Cherry. C'mon - treat us with some intelligence. Each light is 2-3 minutes. I know. I sit at Jarvis every day. How about we get to sue these guys when it turns out we were lied to? There's an idea. They can pay to put the Gardiner back up.
Have any of you come southbound on the Allen on a Sunday afternoon? It takes 10 minutes to make a left onto Eglinton. Is that what the future holds for Jarvis St.
There is a lot of us-versus-them attitude here; like living in Mississauga is some sort of disease. Shame on you!
I realize the Dome and Sheppard subway pre-date Miller, but it isn't the politicians who pick the figures. How come they are always wrong? How about the MFP scandal? $11 million to find out where $42 million went? Most of the same civil servants are still in charge. You trust these guys/gals with your pocket book?