Filip
Senior Member
Various polls have said various things - Miller wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning the next elections if he were running. Barbara Hall was the frontrunner in 2003, in all polls - guess that doesn't mean anything, right?
I am talking about many pet projects Miller undertook, especially in his second term - without the consultation of the citizens of the city his job is to serve. A sensibly cheap ($10+ billion transit plan) is shoved down the throats of Torontonians and the majority don't want it. Sounds like a dictatorship, no? In many cities I've lived in, such massive capital investments are sent to a city-wide referendum. Most Torontonians would probably vote it down because they know what the city needs, and it's not streetcars. Miller has insisted on Transit City being a cheap alternative that would suddenly cause suburban arterials to magically transform into European streets with trams zooming by and midrise architecture lining both sides, complete with coffee shop, indie bookstores and hipsters. Listening to his interviews about subway expansion it sounds like he's fundamentally against them, because cost can't be an issue considering what Transit City is set to cost us, the taxpayers. Subways are apparently evil, and cause streets to lose all streetlife and pop up condos everywhere. Someone should let Bloor and Yonge know, I don't think they've received the memo.
Instead of relying on the due diligence former, more visionary, Toronto councils, Metro councils and TTC planners have given us over the past 40 years, he goes ahead and creates an entirely new transit plan that benefits no one. A streetcar is a streetcar, whether it runs in tunnels, on bridges, on the streets, in its private ROW... Torontonians know streetcars are slow and unreliable, just because this is called LRT - it's not going to fool anyone - people will continue commuting the way they used to. Also the fact that the TTC fabricated ridership projections for Eglinton should be a legal case and a major scandal. You don't go from ~40 000 ppdh to 5000 unless Toronto gets hit by an asteroid. I hope the current candidates research this, and the media should definitely jump in.
I am talking about many pet projects Miller undertook, especially in his second term - without the consultation of the citizens of the city his job is to serve. A sensibly cheap ($10+ billion transit plan) is shoved down the throats of Torontonians and the majority don't want it. Sounds like a dictatorship, no? In many cities I've lived in, such massive capital investments are sent to a city-wide referendum. Most Torontonians would probably vote it down because they know what the city needs, and it's not streetcars. Miller has insisted on Transit City being a cheap alternative that would suddenly cause suburban arterials to magically transform into European streets with trams zooming by and midrise architecture lining both sides, complete with coffee shop, indie bookstores and hipsters. Listening to his interviews about subway expansion it sounds like he's fundamentally against them, because cost can't be an issue considering what Transit City is set to cost us, the taxpayers. Subways are apparently evil, and cause streets to lose all streetlife and pop up condos everywhere. Someone should let Bloor and Yonge know, I don't think they've received the memo.
Instead of relying on the due diligence former, more visionary, Toronto councils, Metro councils and TTC planners have given us over the past 40 years, he goes ahead and creates an entirely new transit plan that benefits no one. A streetcar is a streetcar, whether it runs in tunnels, on bridges, on the streets, in its private ROW... Torontonians know streetcars are slow and unreliable, just because this is called LRT - it's not going to fool anyone - people will continue commuting the way they used to. Also the fact that the TTC fabricated ridership projections for Eglinton should be a legal case and a major scandal. You don't go from ~40 000 ppdh to 5000 unless Toronto gets hit by an asteroid. I hope the current candidates research this, and the media should definitely jump in.
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