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Morning Brew: City surplus projected at $90 million, Rob Ford back on diet, does Toronto have a garbage bin shortage?, and let's talk about a DRL
We have ourselves a surplus on the horizon. So, what to do? Restore services or cut/reduce the land transfer tax? Or maybe that binary isn't the only way to think about this thing.
Just in case you care, Rob Ford does, indeed, plan on continuing with his Cut the Waist challenge.
There aren't too many reasons to read Metro online, but Matt Elliott's now regular columns are the exception to the rule. In his latest, he explains why our mayor is better suited to the role of city councillor — which, you know, isn't really such a good thing given the circumstances.
Does Toronto have a garbage bin shortage? Some people think so, but without information on bin numbers prior to our current street furniture contract with Astral Media, it's actually impossible to know.
If your name is Jeff and you live in Leslieville, I strongly suggest you read this. If you don't fit that description, behold the power of the Internet anyway. (via Reddit TO)
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Anyone with even a cursory understanding of the city's transportation problems knows that the DRL is, or should be, Toronto's single most important infrastructure investment in the next half century. — John Lorinc keeps his eye on the prize in diagnosing, once again, the failings of our mayor's transit program.
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“The media just has a frenzy. I think it benefits the media. They just sit there and wait for you Monday like piranhas. They just wait. I said, ‘Enough’s enough. This is becoming a circus,’ ” he said.
Uh, dumbass you literally created the media events. Now he's the victim again. Yep, everyone is out to get him and nothing is of his own doing.
Other than the sudoku or crossword to kill time, is there any reason to pick up a Metro at all?
Ford should be the aide to a city councillor. He can fix people's individual problems like he's been doing, but so that someone who is smarter, better informed, and actually wants to make the city a better place can make the important decisions.
I still don't know why Ford hasn't taken it up. It fits with his 'subways, subways, subways' agenda and is the only new subway line that can be justified on ridership numbers. I assume it's because it is a 'downtown' thing even though Scarborough and North York residents are the biggest beneficiaries.
I still have no idea why he even wanted to be Mayor, since his personality and skill set are so unsuited for the job and by all accounts, he's not terribly interested in it anymore, especially now that he's discovered that it's hard to be Mayor.
Truly, we'd be doing him and ourselves a huge favour by not re-electing him. I bet if he were being honest with himself, he'd admit it too.
He'd be better off as the Mayor of Keswick.
http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/mis/3033905538.html
Not that Jeff...
A downtown relief line can easily be implemented at grade by upgrading the 504 King to streetcar-only lanes and traffic light control. I bet this is what Miller and Giambrone had in mind, especially with the new streetcar purchase. Doubtful it'll ever happen under this mayor.
http://www.theredpin.com/blog/canada/porn-for-torontonians-an-ideal-ttc-map-pic