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My initial point was about the likelihood of Bailão or Saunders managing to get a centre-right coalition to coalesce behind them. That portion of the electorate unquestionably includes some people who are too racist or too sexist to vote for someone who is not a white man (whether they...

Your points demonstrate how normalized and pervasive the erasure of anything non-English is in anglophone North America. Hence it is an obstacle for someone like Bailão to appeal to (centre-)right voters who previously have only ever voted for white men with Anglo-Saxon names

Sorry adma, this wasn't meant as a dig on your spelling, but rather on the spelling on Bailão's own lawn signs -- the fact that she is deliberately misspelling her own name to appear less "foreign" says something about the centre-right electorate

I think a major unacknowledged obstacle to any coalescing of the anti-Chow vote is that neither Saunders nor "Bailao" (hiding the "ã" on her lawn signs) are palatable to those centre-right voters who have never voted for anyone other than a white male native English speaker.

I wonder if they are surprised by the opposition. I certainly am. The proposal seems so eminently reasonable, and they already have the experience of occasional car-free Sundays. The whole thing seems like such a no-brainer that it's hard to understand how anyone could be opposed to it.

Very disappointing. The GreenP parking lot is directly across the street from their business. What more do they want?

I'm kind of surprised that noone has stolen the pavers yet, but someone has been building little Stonehenge arrangements.

As discussed in this Urbanist Agenda podcast episode (NotJustBikes&RMTransit), the overlap is such that some progressives might vote for Bailão to prevent Saunders or Furey from winning. However, if Bailão is truly in second place behind Chow, that motivation disappears.

Stop trolling

or instead of much longer subway rides! (already plenty of people take UP express from Bloor(Dundas West) to Union instead of taking the subway, and the time save would be greater for longer distances (e.g take Barrie GO from Caledonia to Union instead of line 5 to line 1)

I'll be sure to pass by there as often as I can, wearing different hats

If these stations get build, there will be more public pressure for fare integration. Without them, the province might get away with delaying it again. Look at what happened with UP Express: the initial service plan was terrible, but public pressure made them adjust it once the line had been...

That's a good one! https://ontariopc.ca/ontario-pc-leader-doug-ford-promises-not-to-touch-the-greenbelt/

Her first tweet lists "We can improve cycling infrastructure" as a way of reducing congestion

Because "all Chinese look the same," right? /s

You forget Frances Nunziata, who was first elected in 1988! https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/council/members-of-council/councillor-ward-5/

To create redundancy in the system? To create a more direct North-South route in the West that doesn't force people to detour through chokepoints at St.George or Union? And how do you know that people traveling from Barrie don't want to go to points along the Western part of the Bloor line...

And to make the Barrie line useful for trips within the city, there really needs to be a stop somewhere between Union and Eglinton!

Exactly! It's grotesque how Perks is lobbying for buildings on Queen at Jameson and Lansdowne to get heritage designation, but doesn't seem concerned about treating Jameson as a highway on-ramp where pedestrians have to wait two light phases to cross the street

And is there any news about the Lansdowne GO station?