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Jonny5 said:
Ah, it's going to be the parking lot for the construction workers coming down from Vaughan in their giant Ford F-350s which they don't use for anything other than driving to their worksite.
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“This is a backstop measure to ensure that we can work in partnership with everyone to get Ontario Place rebuilt in a timely manner,” the office said, adding that the bill could expedite construction requirements such as turning off water lines or adding power.

That's a funny way to engage in a partnership.

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Be careful out there! As of today "Mayor" Doug Ford has removed all speed cameras. Even though research from SickKids Hosptial, shows that cameras reduce speeding in school zones by 45%!

Time to dust off the useless slowdown turtles and pray people don't drive like it's the 401

www.ctvnews.ca

Speed enforcement cameras officially banned across Ontario

Speed enforcement cameras across the province have officially turned off after more than five years of use and millions of dollars in fines.
www.ctvnews.ca www.ctvnews.ca

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How about "speed limiters" for ALL motor vehicles? These days, with AI, they can control the vehicle based on location (50 km/h on arterial, 30 km/h in school zones, etc.).


Speed Limiters For Ontario Commercial Motor Vehicles

From https://www.otdlegal.ca/general-blog/speed-limiters-for-ontario-commercial-motor-vehicles/

In June 2008 Ontario law went into effect requiring most commercial motor vehicles to be equipped with a speed limiting device to limit speed to a maximum of 105 km/h. This change to Ontario law was met with mixed reactions from various stakeholders such as transport truck drivers, transport truck company owners, and regular drivers of Ontario roadways.

There could certainly be pressures placed on transport truck drivers to exceed the posted speed limits by company owners who in turn could be pressured by clients under time constraints for their deliveries. Ultimately legal, insurance, and financial penalties would be held against drivers and their companies in trying to meet the demands of an ever increasing ‘just in time’ manufacturing and supply industry. Road safety concerns both for the drivers of commercial motor vehicles and the drivers of the other vehicles around them have also been a part of this ongoing discussion.
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The City Bids site looks like:

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I look at the Open list quite often but recently looked at the "Pending" list and saw only very old items so asked why they were 'pending" I got a response saying..

"The “Pending Awards” page includes historical solicitations that were issued before SAP Ariba became the City’s sourcing platform. Although they appear under “Pending Awards,” they are in fact archived and no longer active."

One would have thought they could call the page "Archived Awards" as "Pending" is VERY misleading but ......
 
DSCToronto said:
The City Bids site looks like:

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I look at the Open list quite often but recently looked at the "Pending" list and saw only very old items so asked why they were 'pending" I got a response saying..

"The “Pending Awards” page includes historical solicitations that were issued before SAP Ariba became the City’s sourcing platform. Although they appear under “Pending Awards,” they are in fact archived and no longer active."

One would have thought they could call the page "Archived Awards" as "Pending" is VERY misleading but ......
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I don’t ever look at bids so I have something wrong here, but there are many hundreds of the 830 on the “pending” list that are from the past year and have an Ariba URL, so when they say that the list “includes” archived ones, I believe mean on top of ones that really are pending, so renaming the list would be misleading in the other direction.

It could be there’s a work item to create a new page for ones archived but the backlog is huge, with the priority and severity for this scoring low.
 
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