salsa
Senior Member
Hilarious to hear subway-blowhard Glen De Baeremaeker enthusiastically praising the LRT, while fighting so hard not to get one built in his own ward.
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Hilarious to hear subway-blowhard Glen De Baeremaeker enthusiastically praising the LRT, while fighting so hard not to get one built in his own ward.
Hopkins123
Senior Member
Glenn's ward encompasses the Eglinton corridor as well between Brimley and Markham Rd, so it's unfair to suggest that he's only open to a subway through his ward. Soon Ward 38 could have several rapid transit stops of all modal stripes.
Red October
Senior Member
I was going to comment on this too.
Like Mammo, GDB can't resist some good face time on camera!
Voltz
Senior Member
"committed to sourcing funding for this line"
Oh really, I thought there was funding for this line from when they made the Scarborough Subway shorter, and put it to this line as a package in order to make the Subway more appealing.
Not surprising they let the increasing costs of the subway gobble it back up again.
rbt
Senior Member
The subway itself isn't funded yet (Ford made plenty of motions to that effect but didn't actually fund it all). You can't really move funding from A to B when A doesn't have funding.
The entire exercise is a shell game and the public hasn't figured out none of the shells have a ball under them.
Steve X
Senior Member
Have you forgotten about the Scarborough subway levy on the property tax back in 2013? The levy is in effect for a couple years now.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...d-cost-to-toronto-homeowners/article14745918/
The real question is: Will they have enough money at the end?
rbt
Senior Member
Absolutely haven't forgotten about that thing that funds about 10% of the low-balled cost.
That's exactly what I was referring to when I said "Ford made plenty of motions to that effect but didn't actually fund it all".
In fact, that property tax piece wasn't even the largest contribution Ford put toward it. He also ate a big chunk of future general debt and developer fees; and staff knew it was still probably short (funded the low-end of the estimate range) for the proposed design at the time.
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Steve X
Senior Member
The original estimate was lowballed to make them appeal to city hall. The levy is set for that estimate. I think someone in the background was told to create a stupid number so it would appeal to Ford and make to a subway champion. Anyways, I agree with you that Ford did pretty much nothing.
ottbike
Active Member
salsa
Senior Member
There's a new app to help you navigate Eglinton during the construction.
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TheTigerMaster
Superstar
How much money did we spend on this?
Megaton327
Senior Member
Given that Google Maps already exists, too much.
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
I'd love to know how this waste of money got approved.
Steve X
Senior Member
Can't you tell the resemblance to google maps? They just integrated the google map API into the app. Looks like a cheap app to me.
dowlingm
Senior Member
If it got reused for future projects like Finch I guess it might be justifiable. My main beef with these apps is they tend to be "one-shot" rather than co-ordinated into a curated family of apps.
That said, it's all very well to say "use Google" but there seem to be persistent issues with coordinating data with third party providers, especially when changes are made at short notice. Look at how 509 nextbus is screwed up because the Ex loop closure was extended after the board period update was finalised.
That said, it's all very well to say "use Google" but there seem to be persistent issues with coordinating data with third party providers, especially when changes are made at short notice. Look at how 509 nextbus is screwed up because the Ex loop closure was extended after the board period update was finalised.