ssiguy2
Senior Member
While Toronto sits on its ass the rest of the world leaves here in her wake and all she can think of to improve the situation is some streetcars. Its pathetic, laughable, and downright embarrasing. How a great city can go mickey-mouse in one generation is a depressing state of affairs.
Now Toronto is bitching that it can't even do a very slow moving, expensive, disjointed streetcar system. At least the Spadina Ext is a go so Toronto can hold it's head up high and brag about another decade with a whopping 6km subway expansion. How bold! How radical! How Toronto! All this touchy-feely talk about a "green" Toronto but after the talk Torontonians are continually having to deal with clogged roads and more "smog alert" days.
Toronto use to be a true city of the future, "the city that works" just 30 years ago and now due to her inertia, myopic city hall, lack of vision and opportunity she goes kicking and screaming into the new millenium. Renaisance through visionary change and new ideas is what Toronto was post-war and now the years roll on and Toronto is bound and determined to stay right where it is.
Toronto needs to regain its stature and vigour by being a daring city once more. In the 60's and 70's Toronto had the fortehought of bucking the world wide trend and keeping her streetcars downtown. Stopping the Spadina Expressway and keeping the streetcars was Toronto at its finest.Its time for Toronto to regain it's lost momentum and be bold yet again.
This, of course, includes transit. Toronto needs to try innovative yet proven technology and for the new millenium that a comprehensive Monorail system. Fast, convienient, affordable, green, no ugly streetcar wires, a smaller footprint than LRT, can be built very quickly, and a technology that is literally exploding all over the world. Toronto should be at the forfront of this new 21st century rapid/mass transit. Other cities worldwide have seen and grasped the Monorail revolution for an integral part of their transit needs and even with all the Monorail completed this decade is going to be the best with atleast 500km worldwide already set to begin construction within the next 3 years. This is Toronto's opportunity to again show NA the boldness required to make a city a TRUE TransitCity for the 21st century.
Now Toronto is bitching that it can't even do a very slow moving, expensive, disjointed streetcar system. At least the Spadina Ext is a go so Toronto can hold it's head up high and brag about another decade with a whopping 6km subway expansion. How bold! How radical! How Toronto! All this touchy-feely talk about a "green" Toronto but after the talk Torontonians are continually having to deal with clogged roads and more "smog alert" days.
Toronto use to be a true city of the future, "the city that works" just 30 years ago and now due to her inertia, myopic city hall, lack of vision and opportunity she goes kicking and screaming into the new millenium. Renaisance through visionary change and new ideas is what Toronto was post-war and now the years roll on and Toronto is bound and determined to stay right where it is.
Toronto needs to regain its stature and vigour by being a daring city once more. In the 60's and 70's Toronto had the fortehought of bucking the world wide trend and keeping her streetcars downtown. Stopping the Spadina Expressway and keeping the streetcars was Toronto at its finest.Its time for Toronto to regain it's lost momentum and be bold yet again.
This, of course, includes transit. Toronto needs to try innovative yet proven technology and for the new millenium that a comprehensive Monorail system. Fast, convienient, affordable, green, no ugly streetcar wires, a smaller footprint than LRT, can be built very quickly, and a technology that is literally exploding all over the world. Toronto should be at the forfront of this new 21st century rapid/mass transit. Other cities worldwide have seen and grasped the Monorail revolution for an integral part of their transit needs and even with all the Monorail completed this decade is going to be the best with atleast 500km worldwide already set to begin construction within the next 3 years. This is Toronto's opportunity to again show NA the boldness required to make a city a TRUE TransitCity for the 21st century.