kettal
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The feds would be happy. A great excuse pull out of a Toronto project.
The feds would be happy. A great excuse pull out of a Toronto project.
Exactly. Maybe this is why we go decades between major transit projects.
And I would hope Smitherman is aware of the major details of the Sheppard LRT considering his government recently pledged almost half a billion dollars to fund it. Given that he was (and is) the Minister of Infrastructure...
But that's exactly what NIMBYs do. They don't say no, instead they propose insanely expensive alternates that wouldn't get built.NIMBY = not in my backyard. If anything we're YIMBYs because we WANT the Sheppard Subway to be completed.
But that's exactly what NIMBYs do. They don't say no, instead they propose insanely expensive alternates that wouldn't get built.
Besides, one can be a NIMBY for many reasons ... but that is exactly what you are. I'm surprised you would object to the term. Just because you want a different project built, doesn't mean your a NIMBY for this project.
No, but I work walking distance from it. I used to live near it - back in the 1980s.do you live on the Sheppard corridor?
*AHEM* NIMBY = Not In My Backyard. It means that you don't want the project to be in your community, for whatever reason. The thing is that I'm sure a bunch of people here would love to have a LRT going to their community. But the people here aren't going "I don't want a LRT going through my backyard, which happens to be Sheppard along the route of the LRT." They're saying "I don't want a LRT along Sheppard because subway really makes so much more sense." There's a difference.But that's exactly what NIMBYs do. They don't say no, instead they propose insanely expensive alternates that wouldn't get built.
Besides, one can be a NIMBY for many reasons ... but that is exactly what you are. I'm surprised you would object to the term. Just because you want a different project built, doesn't mean your a NIMBY for this project.
No, but I work walking distance from it. I used to live near it - back in the 1980s.
You expect someone making a deputation to a TTC meeting, to reverse something that they approved unanimously way back in June 2008, have got full provincial and federal funding for, and is in the process of being tendered, would get support?
Whatever the merits be, or not be, I think that claiming that a nobody could walk into a TTC meeting and get support on such a huge reversal of a decision by the same commissioners is extremely naive.
^^ And just to clear things up, Subway can handle a much higher capacity and will be able to provide that 30 km/h average all the time.
But that's exactly what NIMBYs do. They don't say no, instead they propose insanely expensive alternates that wouldn't get built.
Besides, one can be a NIMBY for many reasons ... but that is exactly what you are. I'm surprised you would object to the term. Just because you want a different project built, doesn't mean your a NIMBY for this project.