GraphicMatt
Looking forward to a FRESH START for Toronto
You guys, he meant to make all these mistakes. He's seeing if we're paying attention. He's playing us like fiddles. He's a genius.
Okay, let me try to figure this out. According to some particularly perverse Ford-world logic, a teardown spec-builder should be favoured to sit on a municipal heritage committee over a qualified historian or heritage expert, because he's more in touch with the common folk's non-elite notion of what "heritage" is.
That's like saying he should be Toronto's Medical Officer of Health, because he has the layman's perspective someone like Sheela Basrur lacked.
I would think that perhaps people need to put less stock in academic smarts and a bit more on street smarts. David Miller with his Harvard economics degree has run Toronto into financial ruin with one of the highest annual municipal budgets in the Western hemisphere!
No. You are shilling for a transit-hating NIMBY, yet at the same time you lie to us that you support transit. Chilling out is the last thing that should be done. You are a hypocrite, and this needs to be made clear. When the cat shits in the corner, what do you do? You rub it's nose in it. You have shit in the corner, and you need to have your nose rubbed in it.Okay, you need to chill out and get the hell off your high horse.
What has he done wrong? Apart from abusing his relative, abusing children, abusing reporters, breaking ethical guidelines regarding spending, missing council meetings, abusing alcohol, making racist comments, making bigoted comments, and lying? Do you need more?Sure, you may not find Ford's antics entertaining, but apart from startling some communities with inconsequential gaffes, what wrong has he done?
What on earth are you talking about? Let's be clear. You oppose this, because you are a transit-hating NIMBY. The only kind of transit you'd support is that which will neither be seen nor heard. Subway. What you want is unrestricted car access.I'm opposed because it is going to add streetcar tracks and traffic where they currently don't exist: down Leslie, across Eastern, and up Carlaw.
Complete and absolute BS. There are only a handful of houses on Leslie near the tracks. And it's a pretty scuzzy area. Anyone else who is impacted are people trying to drive through to get to the Gardiner. But that's right, you don't want anything to interfere with cars.There are over 100 homeowners on or near Leslie Street that will be affected by this.
You oppose this, because you are a transit-hating NIMBY.I'm opposed because although it will create some jobs, the job density for the site will be really low. I'm opposed because it's going to make a bad traffic situation on Eastern even worse.
Umm ... so basically you oppose streetcar yards ... period. Even those, like this, build in industrial areas.I'm opposed because it's going to have vast paved areas (where the streetcars will park, and where the employees will park).
And this is where you demonstrate you complete ignorance on the issues. The yard is no where near any housing. It's over 200 metres from the edge of the yard to the nearest house ... and that house is across the street from a huge Loblaws! The yard is being built on excess land of a sewage treatment plant! Across the street is a big-box complex with Canadian Tire. Across the other way is a huge parking lot and a Loblaws; next to that are warehouses and the fire department's training facility. Kitty-corner is another huge parking lot and a Price Chopper. This is nothing at all like Greenwood Yard!I think if you look at the Greenwood yard, you'll see all the reasons why this new yard shouldn't be situated directly adjacent to the neighbourhood, if it can be avoided.
What do the old film studios have to do with this? The streetcar yard is south of Lakeshore. The old films studios are on Eastern, north of Lakeshore. Hang on a minute ... you are so utterly ignorant on this issue you've been spouting on about, that you actually think that they are putting the new yard on the film studio property? How can you say so much, and be so unaware of what is actually gong on?The city should create a mixed use project for the old film studio lands.
Once again you demonstrate your ignorance. There are no building on this land!The city wouldn't need to tear down all the old buildings
You pretend to be pro-transit, and then trash any transit proposal that involves buses or streetcars ... and you accuse me of not having any scruples? You don't live in this ward, yet you want to force a McDonalds or something like that on us?Well of course you aren’t losing any sleep over this, you appear to have no scruples.
If you read his posting in detail, it becomes clear that he thinks the new LRV yard is going on the old Toronto Film Studios property. He has demonstrated that he's willing to argue against any transit project, without actually even bothing to read about it. You might say he did a "Rob Ford". Or perhaps one could call it doing a "Fat Fuck".Am I crazy? I thought the proposal would just see streetcar tracks run down Leslie from Queen to the new facility at Lakeshore & Leslie. What's this 'across Eastern' stuff?
Freshy, can you try see this from our perspective? You have repeatedly demonstrated that you have little to no grasp of reality.
If you are representative of a typical Rob Ford fan, can you understand why the rest of us should be worried?
I think we have demonstrated otherwise here. Your ignorance of where the streetcar yard is shocking ...kettal it's abundantly clear that I have profound grasp on reality
Or perhaps you just are proud of how many times you could Fat Fuck up?I'm an eccentric, proud of it, and frankly don't care whether I'm popular, just that I'm heard.
You pretend to be pro-transit, and then trash any transit proposal that involves buses...
If you read his posting in detail, it becomes clear that he thinks the new LRV yard is going on the old Toronto Film Studios property. He has demonstrated that he's willing to argue against any transit project, without actually even bothing to read about it. You might say he did a "Rob Ford". Or perhaps one could call it doing a "Fat Fuck".
I think we have demonstrated otherwise here. Your ignorance of where the streetcar yard is shocking ...
Or perhaps you just are proud of how many times you could Fat Fuck up?
Your a disgrace to the community!
kettal it's abundantly clear that I have profound grasp on reality, on municipal issues, on the affects of public transit routing and infrastructure...
No it wasn't. Your lying again. The old Film Studio property was eliminated from consideration about 10 months ago. There was a post on this on September 18, 2009 when they selected Ashbridges Bay - http://urbantoronto.ca/showthread.p...il-Vehicle-(LRV)-Maintenance-Storage-FacilityIt was one of the sites considered for the new yard though and until very recently, like less than a month ago, was the designated site chosen.
The ignorance of NIMBYs shouldn't surprise. Often they are very uninformed, self-centred people.It might surprise you to know that many residents still think it's the Leslie/Eastern site that's at risk.
Certainly not! Making conclusions and going on massive diatribes without ever reading the briefing documents that are in one's sweaty hands is fat fucking up.Asking questions is Fat Fucking up?
There has been no last-minute change of venue. The venue was selected almost a year ago. Why do you continue to lie?If I never probed for more info via displaying all the info I had gathered on the subject matter, I never would've known about the last minute change of venue.
Okay, let's see how good your grasp of reality from ONE PAGE of this thread is...
- You think RC Harris is a sewage treatment plant?
- You think streetcar tracks will be added to Eastern Ave?
- You think the stinkiest block of land in the city is "Prime Real Estate"
- You think there are already houses in that area?
- You think you can cut thousands of people's wages by 10% and still expect them to show up and do their job?
- You think there is a neighbourhood that is in the direct vicinity of the streetcar site?
- You think modern LRVs going on a straight street are louder than the thousands of cars, trucks, and motorcycles that already use the street?
That's just one page. Multiply that by 42 and you have this thread. Multiply it by 800, and you have your posting history.