Old CBC video - Toronto Transportation Problems

[marcus_a_j]

An interesting video from 1960

http://archives.cbc.ca/emissions/emission.asp?page=1&IDLan=1&IDEmission=884

 

[Tuscani01]

From the same site, the subway song!

http://archives.cbc.ca/clip.asp?IDClip=6098&IDCat=&IDCatPa=

 

[smuncky]

thanks for the link marcus. it was very interesting to watch that segment to see what the city was thinking at the time.

ps. here is one of my favorite videos from the CBC archives. http://archives.cbc.ca/clip.asp?IDClip=6099&IDCat=311&IDCatPa=256

 

[Hipster Duck]

Alan Lamport, if you only knew how timid we are today you would roll in your grave. Plus, they're planning on tearing down the stadium with your name on it.


Also, this is amusing:

"It's commonly known as the Spadina arterial highway and will run up through the Cedarvale ravine way up to highway 401 in the neighbourhood of where Eaton's and Simpson's are about to build their big departmental stores."

 

[CityPlaceN1]

Well the Spadina Expressway was very much tied into the Yorkdale Mall development. They went hand in hand.

 

[Hipster Duck]

I know. I just get a kick out of Big Daddy's use of what are now anachronisms: Eaton's and Simpson's and calling a shopping mall a "big departmental store".

 

[voxpopulicosmicum]

I enjoyed this gem from Toronto's then head of planning:

"The more money we put on expressways, the less is available for ... parks, slum clearance, housing and the many other things that are essential..."

 

[junctionist]

We still haven't recovered from suburbanitis either.

 

[voxpopulicosmicum]

That video kinda makes me glad Robert Moses is dead, cuz if he wasn't, I would feel compelled to try to kill him.

 

[Urban Shocker]

We're still doing slum clearance - Regent Park is one.