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Sorry, but this idea is laughable, not to mention smug. The city wasn't founded in 1998, nor does it exist in a vacuum. How built up was Toronto's downtown core when most of today's GTA was countryside? As others are trying to point out, the city-region is an organic, interdependent urban whole...

Miller is indeed an intelligent guy with good intentions, but he needed to be a more of a pragmatist and less of an ideologue.

To be honest, I hadn't noticed this thread was specifically for Eglinton. As for the original Transit City plan: - I would've killed the RT revitalization (let's not forget *that* was in the plan), Sheppard East, Jane, and Malvern. Don Mills questionable. - I would've kept Eglinton (with...

You can't just cherry-pick Eglinton to justify the whole plan, nor should you assume that just because I oppose TC I automatically support the mayor's plan. What about all the ridiculous transfers? The superfluous lines to Malvern? The fact that the Jane LRT would be virtually impossible to...

Transit City has to be one of the most short-sighted and ideologically-motivated transit plans ever conceived, but I do agree that one has to be 'educated' to be convinced otherwise. A lot of common sense has to be pushed out of one's head to embrace it.

Hah, I tend to lean right more in the traditional Euro sense than in the neo-con Free Dominion sense, but point taken :) FWIW, I have to agree with those against requiring a degree. Holding one is virtually meaningless in terms of intelligence, competence, work ethic, etc., especially these...

Ironic considering UT has already become an equivalent ghetto of the left. It's virtually impossible to have an opposing point of view here anymore without being piled on by the young-and-angry brigade.

"White" is a bit of a red herring even though it makes for a provocative title. The author's point is that contrary to stereotypes of suburbia imported from US media, Toronto's suburbs are complex, vibrant places predominantly made up of immigrants and their children whose ideals and values...

Or perhaps their values align more closely with Ford's than those of downtowners. Why White Scenesters Hate the ‘Burbs

AoD: I agree it's not the best approach. I'm still hoping Ford will prove to be useful on the balance in breaking the grip special interests have on the city, but politicians like him definitely are double-edged swords. I also suspect ham-fisted solutions would be less likely if he didn't get...

Agree with you completely, AoD. It mainly bothers me that a lot of people don't want to recognize that Ford's much-derided 'gravy' does in fact exist and that it isn't fair to simply raise taxes when honest hard-nosed attempts aren't being made to run the city in a more cost-effective way. It's...

It's not library yoga classes specifically; they're symptomatic of a wider death-by-a-thousand-cuts entitlement problem. And I'm not saying Toronto needs austerity measures; I'm saying that we'd be wise in this economy to proactively streamline things to avoid a more painful situation where we...

Why does the city need to own the zoo? Or be in the garbage collection business? Why does the TTC need an army of fare collectors and janitors? Why do the unions always seem to get what they want? Why does the public library system offer yoga classes? These things aren't dependent on the current...

True, but those industrial uses (from what I can tell, perhaps I'm wrong) seem to be limited to warehouses, distribution centres, workshops, and maybe some small factories. A pollution emitting gas power plant is a totally different animal.

Really? Are you familiar at all with the area around this plant? It isn't some middle-of-nowhere outer-GTA subdivision built five years ago. Other than Lakeview, I wouldn't say the area is as "industrial" as you think it is. I'm surprised by all the support here since it seems like such a...

Think long term. The headline-friendly 'culture war' issues that seem so important today will prove to be insignificant blips, but rationalizing city services and weakening the grip of vocal vested interests would go a long way towards putting Toronto in a much healthier position. If he...

Come on :) According to UT, everyone centre-left to right is a foaming conservative. If you guys go any further left, you're going to fall off. Ford is mayor and this place needs to accept that fact already. He may not be ideal in the purest sense, but he will likely prove useful in making...

That's true; I'm just unsure that starting with Duke of York is a good idea if we want to promote them. Btw, I probably should've said 'conventional' instead of 'straightforward', but I guess it doesn't change your point either way.

Hah, fair enough. I stand corrected. But still a decisive victory and intellectuals still more often than not make poor leaders.

There are those who are more aggressive at 4-ways and they aren't a problem if you drive defensively, but I seem to mostly see drivers without any clue of what to do and who should go first. The worst part is that these drivers do the wrong thing at lights as well. Just last week I had someone...