Mr.Colley
Active Member
Well we'll see what happens. I will be supprised if he gets re elected. But then again I've seen stranger things happen. But at the end of the day, one politician is as good as the next...
And you have NO WAY of knowing that it wasn't possible, but money is certainly more than available right now.And you have NO WAY of knowing that Pitfield would have been able to raise the $$ to build subways, she would have faced the same issues Miller did. Subways are too expensive to build, light rail you get much more coverage which is what Toronto needs desperately.
Does the average voter care? One way to find out.Also, while there's a lot of grumbling about Transit City on this board, I'd imagine the average voter doesn't really care about the details and just sees "building more transit" as a positive for the mayor. For better or for worse, most people don't really get all that excited about alignments and headways.
I heard Denzil Minnon-Wong might run....??
And you have NO WAY of knowing that it wasn't possible, but money is certainly more than available right now.
For the most part, we already have that much coverage. The debate which we we deserved but never got was whether or not X billion dollars would be better spent on LRT lines or subways (or a combination of both). Instead, TransitCity was shoved down our throats from day one.
As much as despise Lastman (for his buffoonery), I will say that Lastman was a very active supporter of North York's growth and development.
It's significantly harder for such development to occur if city council and the mayor are in opposition every step of the way.
Of course if you mean by "Shoved Down our Throats" you mean, we elected him then he gave out Transit City. Then we re-elected him by a landslide, then yeah, Transit City was "shoved down our throats".
Let's not look under the rocks around thr redevelopment of "downtown North York". People who suffer from Lastman nostalgia are likely to discover unsavoury details about the "tiny, imperfect mayor", such as a high degree of coincidence between the mayor's campaign contributors and those who directly benefitted from the redevelopment of "downtown North York".
I would be surprised if anyone circa 2006 knew anything about TC. While that says more about general voter apathy than a problem with Miller/TC, reading a 'landslide' victory for Miller as a landslide for TC isn't totally accurate.urbanboom said:Of course if you mean by "Shoved Down our Throats" you mean, we elected him then he gave out Transit City. Then we re-elected him by a landslide, then yeah, Transit City was "shoved down our throats".
I would be surprised if anyone circa 2006 knew anything about TC. While that says more about general voter apathy than a problem with Miller/TC, reading a 'landslide' victory for Miller as a landslide for TC isn't totally accurate.
That cities in Canada (it's not just an Ontario problem) have had fiscal challenges is not an excuse for much of what Miller has done. He has received greater revenue generating powers than many of those other municipalities. Is Mississauga allowed to apply a land transfer tax or a charge on vehicle registration? And in Toronto's case, the neighbouring municipalities are forced to help out with social service costs and some transportation costs (GO). So to argue that Toronto is completely helpless is patently false. Miller has worsened Toronto's fiscal position by wasting away the extra revenue that was generated on raises for the unions and councillors. He refuses to contract out any service, even if it makes sense for the city not to provide said service. And he's about to squander billions in transit dollars on a plan to deploy trams across a city that barely has a functioning subway network.
Mississauga's operating budget has increased at a rate faster than growth and inflation. Have they been caving into unions too?
If you want to talk about being forced to help neighbouring municipalities, you can't talk about that without mentioning the hundreds of millions the province taxes businesses in the 416 to fund education outside of the city.