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Who's genius idea was it to build the St. Clair streetcar line? |
Travel Info and by genius I mean retarded. Travel Tips Thank the liberals Others proud to be wasting your money since 1867! David Miller and his cronies are specifically to blame for this. They've really screwed the transit system up. Howard Moscoe didn't help. The new Commissioner Adam Giambrone is far worse politically speaking. I can say this because I've met the guy. He's on the move up the political ladder. All mouth. His lips are made for kissing heinies. The people who romance themselves about the street cars are usually people who do not have to take the transit normally. Most of the politicians who do take the transit drive to the subway to come downtown. As far as the St. Clair. People pointed out that the Spadina was a disaster. What the authorities don't point out is that the model, the Spadina line is less than ten years old. If you go down to Harbourfront you can easily see that the Spadina line is falling apart already. The brickwork on Harborfront is crumbling. It wasn't such a good idea to use brickwork on these lines. The broken rails on the line are showing up. These lines have to go twenty years before they need replacement. The Lower Spadina line will need an overhaul about three years or 50% of its expected lifetime. Back to the St. Clair line. That line was put in not by the local people but by the romantic thinking people in the burbs who want the street cars but never use the stupid things. It was shoved down the poorer part of the city by people who visit that street maybe about once a year tops. The biggest argument the buffoon Windy Miller makes is that street car lines take less money to build. What he doesn't say is that with the need to replace that line in 14 years and the Subway doesn't need construction overhaul for 150 years. It's a brilliant idea. And by brilliant I mean, take a look at the Spadina Line ... you can move from Bloor to Queen very quickly on that streetcar, and the neighbourhood along the streetcar line is bustling. Toronto should build subway lines along St. Clair and Eglinton, but absent that (and the tens of billions of dollars needed), dedicated streetcar lines let people move quickly around the city at low cost and with reduced pollution. They also deliver shoppers and visitors to different neighbourhoods. In effect, they stitch the city together and reduce traffic. Toronto will end up as one of two places: as a functioning city of 10 million people, or as a 40 degree, polluted traffic jam of 10 million cars. The former is less retarded, in my opinion. |
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