TheTigerMaster
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This definitely belongs in here
http://www.citynews.ca/2015/06/24/t...lar-dream-home-spoiled-by-toronto-hydro-pole/
Wow oh wow. This couple is sitting right across from me on the streetcar
This definitely belongs in here
http://www.citynews.ca/2015/06/24/t...lar-dream-home-spoiled-by-toronto-hydro-pole/
Yes, Brampton most certainly takes the cake with their Main Street antics.
However, there was that time when one of Toronto's leading mayoral candidates appealed to NIMBYs against provincially funded transportation plans.
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Those weren't SmartTrack lines Chow was campaigning against.Uh, are you trolling? SmartTrack was not a provincially funded plan. The Scarborough LRT was, and I remember Tory campaigning against that!
Those weren't SmartTrack lines Chow was campaigning against.
Those were already funded GO-RER corridors and projects. The Stoufville line double-tracking was already fully funded and underway, alongside with the Union Station revitalizations. The latter being designed to handle future capacities of GO-RER. Inciting NIMBYs and resistance against these projects is just so mind-numbingly stupid, and a big part of the reason why Toronto transit has stalled in the previous administration.
With these antics, she proved that either she was against commuter rail, or she has a complete failure of understanding of GTA transit. Both outcomes meant there was no way I could trust her with the transit profile. This was in fact the turning point for me when I started to believe 'there is no way I am voting for Chow'.
*** Future NIMBY Story*** Wait until someone on Edna Ave starts complaining that the sounds of subway trains being stored in the yard between Keele and Dundas West and the sight of them ruins their view or the noise of compressors running keeps them up all night. That's sure to be a Star story as soon as the TTC starts parking trains there for the night.
The same happened in 1966 when the residents complained loudly about the clattering of the subway trains over the crossover at Keele Station and the parked trains.
“It’s a mystery how the TTC would consider placing such a massive toxic industrial complex in the middle of such a pristine residential community,” he said.
Another Ivy resident, Giovanni Pittalis and his partner started the petition, having lived directly in front of the space the brewery owns now for 20 years. “It’s like living opposite a stadium,” he says, wringing his paint-splattered hands.
Pittalis is an artist and spends considerable time at home working. “We haven’t been able to sit in our backyard. Even with our door closed, the walls vibrate in noise; it’s a circus.”
Full article: http://news.nationalpost.com/toront...against-residential-leslieville-neighbourhood
Isn't it interesting that everyone speaking against that want said group all wanted to do it off record? And then you have said group insisting that we have a group hug? Hmm hmm.
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Oh one that comes to mind is the new TTC bus depot out in McNicoll.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/tra...rough_will_boost_noise_fumes_and_traffic.html
First time I have heard of a bus depot called a "toxic industrial complex", as if buses runs on arsenic or something.
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