Urban Shocker
Doyenne
And the crashes are more spectacular.
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Toronto Loses Grand Prix
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TKTKTK
Senior Member
And luckily for everyone involved; few and far between.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Yes, I'd hate to have one of those things come down on my house. The air show noise is bad enough as it is.
TKTKTK
Senior Member
NAMBLA? Not-Above-My-Backyard, Loud-Airplanes?
Anyway, surely you'd hate for anyone to crash and die - not just the bodies you have to shovel out of your daisies.
DENTROBATE54
Banned
One weekend out of the year of car crashes and revelry pandemonium all bringing in an excess of fifty million sounds like a nice trade off to me, just saying. Now what's going to put T.O. on the map? Spamalot? We Will Rock You? 
lol!
For all the long sheer, agony of winter keeping Torontonians homebound, it's nice to have a world-class event like this hosted by this city during the summer months that citizens can go out to and enjoy. I hope it returns bigger and louder than before.
VROOM!! VROOM!! Yeah!
lol! For all the long sheer, agony of winter keeping Torontonians homebound, it's nice to have a world-class event like this hosted by this city during the summer months that citizens can go out to and enjoy. I hope it returns bigger and louder than before
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Urban Shocker
Doyenne
There's an irritating helicopter that sometimes flies over deepest Riverdale at night and wakes the natives up. I think noise pollution is a real problem in the city, not just from auto races. If I had my own cache of heat-seeking missiles I'd be tempted to send up one or two of them now and then at the appropriate time - if I thought I could get away with it.
DENTROBATE54
Banned
TKTKTK
Senior Member
NAMBLA- wasn't that the North American Man/Boy Love Association
Ah shucks, what are the odds that my awkwardly worded acronym is the same one used by an awkwardly themed association.
bjl
New Member
NAMBLA- wasn't that the North American Man/Boy Love Association
Oh look, a member!
unimaginative2
Senior Member
I just hope this means they can get rid of that hideous chain link fence on Lakeshore. Or does it? Is it there to keep people from sneaking in to the CNE for free?
adma
Superstar
One weekend out of the year of car crashes and revelry pandemonium all bringing in an excess of fifty million sounds like a nice trade off to me, just saying. Now what's going to put T.O. on the map? Spamalot? We Will Rock You?
For all the long sheer, agony of winter keeping Torontonians homebound, it's nice to have a world-class event like this hosted by this city during the summer months that citizens can go out to and enjoy. I hope it returns bigger and louder than before
VROOM!! VROOM!! Yeah!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Tommaso_Marinetti
TO City of Light
Active Member
Let's Get Loud, Let's Get Loud .....
Interesting, if disappointing, news. While I have not had an interest in Formula Indy racing, Toronto cannot afford to lose important events.
I am surprised at the numbers of "peace and quiet" posters; let's have no events in Toronto that cause noise and bring in crowds.
As a contrast, having just spent the weekend in Singapore, that city/country is now preparing for its first F-1 Grand Prix race in September. This event will be unique in that it will be a city circuit, a la Monte Carlo, but it will be run at night. Since the number of formula 1 races is fixed, the Singapore event comes at the cost of closing another one. The F-1 race shifted to Singapore was the US Grand Prix!
As a point of interest on the type of crowds that F-1 racing attracts, grandstand seats at the start/finish line for the Malaysia Grand Prix next month are over US$600 each. I am sure prices in Singapore will be a bit more. They are projecting attendance of 80,000.
Toronto in 2007 had 10.6 million tourists spending $4.5 billion. UK was the largest overseas origin providing 280,000 visitors.
The target for Singapore in 2008 is 10.8 million tourist arrivals and US$11 billion in tourism receipts. In 2007, Singapore received 496,000 tourists from UK.
Speaking of noise and air pollution, the event that took me down to Singapore was their Air Show, now considered the third most important in the world after Farnborough and Orly. Lots of noise. Lots of people.
The champion crowd pleaser, the 380 Airbus - quiet, maneuverable, amazing.
Oh, and there is even more noise and big crowds to come. Singapore also beat out Moscow to host the first Olympic Youth Games in 2010. Even the noise from the crowd of 5000 who turned out for the announcement from Lausanne were much too noisy.
At least Stamford Raffles is quiet.
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Interesting, if disappointing, news. While I have not had an interest in Formula Indy racing, Toronto cannot afford to lose important events.
I am surprised at the numbers of "peace and quiet" posters; let's have no events in Toronto that cause noise and bring in crowds.
As a contrast, having just spent the weekend in Singapore, that city/country is now preparing for its first F-1 Grand Prix race in September. This event will be unique in that it will be a city circuit, a la Monte Carlo, but it will be run at night. Since the number of formula 1 races is fixed, the Singapore event comes at the cost of closing another one. The F-1 race shifted to Singapore was the US Grand Prix!
As a point of interest on the type of crowds that F-1 racing attracts, grandstand seats at the start/finish line for the Malaysia Grand Prix next month are over US$600 each. I am sure prices in Singapore will be a bit more. They are projecting attendance of 80,000.
Toronto in 2007 had 10.6 million tourists spending $4.5 billion. UK was the largest overseas origin providing 280,000 visitors.
The target for Singapore in 2008 is 10.8 million tourist arrivals and US$11 billion in tourism receipts. In 2007, Singapore received 496,000 tourists from UK.
Speaking of noise and air pollution, the event that took me down to Singapore was their Air Show, now considered the third most important in the world after Farnborough and Orly. Lots of noise. Lots of people.
The champion crowd pleaser, the 380 Airbus - quiet, maneuverable, amazing.
Oh, and there is even more noise and big crowds to come. Singapore also beat out Moscow to host the first Olympic Youth Games in 2010. Even the noise from the crowd of 5000 who turned out for the announcement from Lausanne were much too noisy.
At least Stamford Raffles is quiet.
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Jayomatic
Active Member
Looking forward to see that F1 race on television and I'm sure it will be spectacular. I am also saddened to hear the Toronto race is off for this year but I hope they will put it back in the schedule next year.
I would rather have the F1 race here though. Some of the tracks are architectural beauties and only seem to be getting better and better as new races are added. I know there was some talk a little while ago about having an F1 race through the streets of London.
I would rather have the F1 race here though. Some of the tracks are architectural beauties and only seem to be getting better and better as new races are added. I know there was some talk a little while ago about having an F1 race through the streets of London.
ITcomputer
Active Member
I will miss the race, enjoyed watching the other races during the weekend as well.
I hope it returns.
In the meantime maybe we can have the homeless race using shopping carts. We can call the Mayor Miller constituents race...
I hope it returns.
In the meantime maybe we can have the homeless race using shopping carts. We can call the Mayor Miller constituents race...
dowlingm
Senior Member
the latest anti-airshow excuse is that people in Parkdale who are refugees might get scared of and surprised by the extremely highly publicised airshow.