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As far as a candidate taking transit goes, Ford has said proudly that he enjoys commuting in his car and will never move to transit.
Like OMG, you are so full of it! Didn't Adam Giambrone, Chairman of the TTC and former Mayoral candidate, stiff the taxpayer for $5k in taxis last year just to travel over a couple city blocks paralleling the subway? Where's your condemnation and outrage over that?
Regardless, let's stop talking about transit as your mayoral candidate has no transit plan.
Keep deluding yourself into thinking that. I suppose it would make your contempt for conservative-minded Torontonians a more difficult pill to swallow if you had to admit to yourself that RF is coming out with an annoucement that will literally blow Transit City to kingdom come, and get it replaced with transitway corridors covering every inch of the city vs. a measly 51 kms of light rail.
At tonight's CP24 mayoral debate, Rob Ford said that his Toronto would be a "no refugee zone" and that he does not support plans to expand the city's population.
Thoughts and reactions?
"Thoughts and reactions?" Let see, like how low can the leftwing media and his opponents sink in its attempts to villify this person? Ford stated that the infrastructure can't hold up, with adding more and more people now. We have the mentally ill sleeping on the streets, the poor sleeping on the streets, people can't afford affordable housing, there are food banks, people are trying to make ends meet, roads are crumbling, the TTC is falling apart, sewers need replacing. Adding more people is just going to make things worse. What is wrong with fixing what we have before making grand visions for the future? And just to segue back into talking about transit for a sec, why does it have to take the introduction of a new transit mode for public transit to be improved? Why can't all-door boarding and transit signal lighting be optimized onto the existing 36 and 85 bus routes for instance? The average Joe doesn't care about modal choice, he cares about the timing of his commute, so that he can spend less time going from place to place and spend more time doing desired activities.
I can see Rob is really concerned for this city, he's not knocking immigration, he is telling it like it is. Either he has offended all of us, or the illusion of salience has convinced you that he meant something else other than what was articulated.