Ridiculous comments and claims made by City Councillors

[MisterF]

Far less serious 'accidents'. See: http://www.swov.nl/rapport/Factsheets/UK/FS_Speed.pdf and possibly fewer accidents too.

That document looks at the relationship between speed and crashes, not speed limits and crashes. Big difference. Lowering speed limit without changing the design the road will do little to nothing to actually slow traffic down. People respond to their built environment and driving is no exception - most drivers drive the speed that feels right, not the speed that a sign tells them to. Traffic on the narrow residential streets near downtown doesn't tend to go much over 30 anyway since they're narrow and weren't designed for driving. Speeds are much higher in the subdivisions of Etobicoke because the streets were built to make driving easy. Lowering the speed limits there would make little difference.

 

[Videodrome]

Jennifer Pagliaro ‏@jpags 1m1 minute ago
Mammoliti and Karygiannis are fighting again.

Some fine people we have on council...

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Some fine people we have on council...

Apparently Mammo just ranted about his red light district on the islands idea again (see jpags' tweets).

AoD

 

[Towered]

Apparently Mammo just ranted about his red light district on the islands idea again (see jpags' tweets).

AoD

But but...how oh how will the deprived citizens of his ward and other suburban areas access these services if they are located in a place only for the downtown elite? He'd be forcing his own poor constituents to make an epic journey through the hell of Toronto traffic just to get there. First Rail Deck Park, now a red light district on the island? Suburbanites are surely a downtrodden lot!

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

But but...how oh how will the deprived citizens of his ward and other suburban areas access these services if they are located in a place only for the downtown elite? He'd be forcing his own poor constituents to make an epic journey through the hell of Toronto traffic just to get there. First Rail Deck Park, now a red light district on the island? Suburbanites are surely a downtrodden lot!

That's why the residents deserves proper respect by having a subway line. It makes accessing, err, these services easier. Having to take a bus to it is pure travesty.

PS: The ward still deserve the world biggest flagpole.

AoD

 

[animatronic]

But but...how oh how will the deprived citizens of his ward and other suburban areas access these services if they are located in a place only for the downtown elite? He'd be forcing his own poor constituents to make an epic journey through the hell of Toronto traffic just to get there. First Rail Deck Park, now a red light district on the island? Suburbanites are surely a downtrodden lot!

Let's combine the two ideas and create a Brass Rail Deck Park.

 

[Skeezix]

"Guess what? People in Scarborough have also pooches."

What an insanely stupid comment, even from Karygiannis.

 

[pman]

What an insanely stupid comment, even from Karygiannis.

I have to disagree with my learned colleague. JimmyK takes insane stupidity up to eleven all the time. Even Mammo is going to have to up his game to compete. Oh, maybe not...

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

What an insanely stupid comment, even from Karygiannis.

To think that he was once a MP *shudder*. At the rate he is devolving school board is his next call.

AoD

 

[Videodrome]

To think that he was once a MP *shudder*. At the rate he is devolving school board is his next call.

AoD

My MP too. No wonder Trudeau was happy to see him resign. I bet he gets easily re-elected too.

 

[Soop]

I have to disagree with my learned colleague. JimmyK takes insane stupidity up to eleven all the time. Even Mammo is going to have to up his game to compete. Oh, maybe not...

It was Mammo that brought up the dogs in the first place. He thinks the Rail Deck park would be for rich downtown condo owners with their dogs (and he mentioned they all have dogwalkers). Then JimmyK (in my house we call him Grumpy Guy) kept up the dog narrative.

 

[Skeezix]

An MP in theory has more influence, but in practice can effectively be marginalized in perpetuity within the caucus. In Ottawa, Karygiannis largely followed the Myron Thompson/Cheryl Gallant template, which was to emit the occasional gaseous nonsense, but to be mostly impotent in terms of actual political power. Karygiannis' main job was to keep winning his riding and to follow the party line.

At City Hall, there is no party whip to keep Karygiannis in line.

 

[salsa]

JimmyK takes insane stupidity up to eleven all the time. Even Mammo is going to have to up his game to compete. Oh, maybe not...

Well at least he tried.

"The megacity has not worked for the suburbs."

"We can't even get the dog poop cleaned up off our streets, ye we can spend a billion (or three) on a park for the dogs of the rich."​

 

[salsa]

Holyday also met expectations. "We could fly people with a helicopter over to the Toronto Island cheaper than we could build this park,"

 

[Soop]

Holyday also met expectations. "We could fly people with a helicopter over to the Toronto Island cheaper than we could build this park,"

And putting a hold on an item regarding tree removal on private property. Then asking for a recorded vote to prove that he voted to allow it. Holyday hates trees.