Looking back at the 2003 campaign against John Tory. Some of the bigger issues were trucking the garbage to Detroit (John Tory wanted to build an incinerator). Beggars down town (Tory wanted to fine them). The bridge to the airport, and transit.
Miller certainly seems to have come out well on both the garbage issues and the panhandling. Buying a fully operational landfill has stopped the border issue with the garbage, and saved us from having an incinerator burning our trash (little of what goes in my garbage can is combustible except plastic ... and I wouldn't want to breath that! And they increase in social workers on the ground, seems to have really reduced the begging, and homelessness in the core itself; the problem will never truly go away, but things seem to have improved, and we've stopped sliding towards a Vancouver-type situation.
The bridge to the airport ... well I disagree with Miller ... but he kept his promise.
And transit? Has he not done exactly what he promised? Pushed ahead the York subway, pushed to improve surface transit, increased service? I'm not sure where we'd be now if we'd followed Tory's plan, and relied on development charges to fund transit expansion.
And of course BMO Field was an amazing move in timing to secure the facility, the profit-making football team, and do it quickly. And now he's gotten us grass - $5-million worth of, without the city paying a cent!
