lordmandeep
Banned
ban panhandling...
it has become a business
it has become a business
And how would you determine competence?If I could change two things I'd institute a series of mandatory requirements and qualifications to be eligible to run for city council. One such qualification would be competence. Thus we'd weed out the idiots like Rob Ford and ensure that we have a thoughtful, intelligent, useful council capable of stewardship and vision.
And how would you determine competence?
In Chinese (and Korean?), "four" is a homophone of "death." Quite a few condos nowadays skip the 4th floor as a result. I think I Hong Kong, some buildings even skip floors 39-50. There is even a name for it, tetraphobia. Skipping floor 13 is triskadecaphobia.
ban panhandling...
it has become a business
Get rid of most street crap. Between hydro poles, street lights, hydrants, parking machines, traffic lights, street signage (no parking, yield, light ahead...), those annoying message boards, TTC stop signs, dead trees, bike rings and such, the streets are way too crowded before even adding pedestrians. Most of these things are just magnets for tagging and being plastered with flyers. Ideally we would start to bury all the overhead wires we can. I would like more street info to go onto roads themselves, perhaps throuh colour coding pavement based on road characteristics. Where possible, signage should just be eliminated entirely (there is no need to sign bike routes, no one refers to them by number anyways). Street lights should also be black as opposed to yellow to mizimize contrast. Stop tolerating flyers, they aren't gritty or urban, they are just ugly. I don't want to hear about it everty time someone plays Darkside of Oz.
You mean we're not the centre of the universe after all?
ban panhandling...
it has become a business