CodeMonkey
Active Member
The recent Gardiner Expressway fiasco is good example why suburbs should not have any say in Toronto matters. Regional government just leads to stupidity. I think Toronto should be demalgamated and into single tier municipalities. Same with the rest of 905.
Think of how much better TTC service would be if it didn't have to go out the suburbs. If it was just old Toronto the TTC would be much better, much more efficient. TTC would stop losing money and be profitable again liek it used to be. Toronto would also save a lot of money on other social programs, especially policing and social housing, since most of the poverty and crime is in the suburbs. Money would stop flowing out of the city and stay in the city where it belongs.
The problem is that amalgamation was going to happen no matter what, the old municipalities where going sooner or later annex each other as they grew. The problem was Mike Harris jumped the gun on that plan, force amalgamation, put this city together in the worse possible way and downloaded responsibilities onto the megacity it had no way to afford just so a bunch of corrupted, shortsighted, ill-educated group of people could claim that they solved Ontario's budget woes without the need of using that single brain cell it their head.