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AlvinofDiaspar said:
Well said - what we should be wondering now is why we didn't spend the extra million or two and light up the underside as well.

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We can only hope that they'll be a continual community effort to get City Hall to approve the illumination of the underside. Perhaps when we have a new Council in 4 years.
 
TheTigerMaster said:
This lighting fixture will become an icon of Toronto. It makes the bickering over a few million dollar seem a little silly.
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I opened the Star article someone posted here yesterday, and here is the first thing it said:
They could have funneled more money to homeless shelters, housing repairs or childcare subsidies, but instead, the city spent $2.8 million lighting the Prince Edward Viaduct. From the start, it was a decision mired in controversy with critics, including Mayor John Tory, picking at the cost, the time and the necessity of it all. But on the evening of July 4, when the historic Bloor bridge that opened in 1918, will be awash with colour for the first time, artist Dereck Revington hopes those grumbles will fade.
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This is at least the seventh time I read an article on this project that devoted so much effort on babbling about the cost and its critics. For some reason all the penny pinchers decided to pick this project to hate on. Yeah, $2.8 mil could have totally fixed our housing crisis. It's impossible to have both nice things and essential things, it can only be one or the other according to the naysayers. If the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty is so offended about unnecessary spending, where were they when council decided to spend hundreds of millions for the Gardiner hybrid? Where is their outrage over the Scarborough subway? That alone is a lot of money that is being wasted. The current leadership at city hall is so obsessed over dollars and low taxes, but instead of complaining about little expenditures like the Luminous Veil, they just need to look themselves in the mirror to see who's the real problem.
 
As mentioned, it doesn't help when you have a chief magistrate that does this:

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From https://twitter.com/_JohnTory/status/617699777963290624

As to the OCAP crowd, no offense, but people need to feel good about their city in order to have the heart to address the issues of poverty and inequity. It's not an either or.

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I understand where some people are coming from. There is money for this but no money to put a shelter at the bus stop.
 
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