Morning Brew: October 8th, 2008

Re: Porter: Awesome! Build a beautiful moveable bridge and complete the package.

Porter is great for Toronto residents looking for both business and quick weekend getaways to close by cities. The whiney "NIMBY" island residents and those against the Island Airport really need to shut it... this is a major city, the island is right downtown... get over it or move to the country... this is progress and development... as much as you may not like it this is the way the world works... it will not always be ther perfect option but there is never a perfect option

... and the guy who got robbed by such a blatantly fake police impersonator is an idiot, plain and simple.

George, define progress.

The trip to Chicago sounds nice.

Yup. The Toronto Islands is a shared resource, and the majority of us who want to use the airport there have just as much right as the minority of lakefront condo owners who purchased their condos knowing the airport was next door.

Clicking on the "see it bigger" link only leads to a private page.

Reminds me of a story of when people in the Entertainment District were petitioning the city to create all sorts of restrictions on the restaurants and bars in the area because they were bothered by the noise in an area they moved into.

Their defense was that when they moved in it wasn't as loud as it was currently due to the growth of the district. That's like buying a small boa constrictor and getting mad at the pet store when a few years later it eats your chihuahua. It's not the pet store's fault that you were shortsided and didn't take growth into consideration when making your purchase.

Okay, so It's maybe not the -best- analogy.

*shortsighted not shortsided.

It's been 4 hours since my morning tea.

Aannnd, I broke the page. Looks like an italics tag went missing suddenly. The whole page is in italics. That help? Probably not.

From the story on the Simcoe underpass....

"The new underpass will also relieve traffic from the often-congested Bay and York streets, he said."

"...it's just going to be a quicker, quieter route up than going up York Street," said Sarah Varaghese, 28, who moved into a local condo two weeks ago.

Do people really believe that? That this will stay as some secrect back road no one will ever notice and will still somehow relieve congestion? I predict it will just create a new gridlocked Gardiner access via Simcoe and Bremner and create no relief whatsoever.

@Jonathan The new underpass will both improve pedestrian access around the union station/convention centre areas AND improve congestion.

Right now all you have to do is pass that area during evening rush hour and you'll see a jam up of people trying to go East on Front only to get into the University/York merge mess jam-up.

True it probably won't improve things for folks getting onto the Gardiner, but will improve things for those using Lakeshore.

I see it as further improvement of connecting downtown Toronto to the waterfront.

Thanks for the heads-up about low food bank donations. It inspired me to give a little and get some perspective on things far more important my own problems.