AL3RT
Well-known member
I have already pulled the plug. To the hell with this T.O. nonsence.
Gardner construction could take as long as TWENTY YEARS.
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I have already pulled the plug. To the hell with this T.O. nonsence.
Roomie
Banned
Where? Brampton? :lmao:
OnAnySunday
Well-known member
You jest. To build it, it would take 40 years. 4 guys to operate the machinery, 33 to stand around and observe that they are doing it right.
The Big Dig is currently still not finished, 300% over budget, and crumbling already.
Because in a city where people get into bidding wars >$1M shacks, they are broke and leveraged up to wazoo, which means they vote for high school dropout drug addicts who promise no tax increases. What these politicians then do is put off infrastructure investment and ignore upkeep, unless they can deflect the cost to some stupid sports even like the Pan Am games.
The problem with Toronto is that they have been doing this for 30 years, and the city went from 2M to 5.5M with exactly the same roads. The other problem is that all the road construction in Ontario is in the hands of three companies who manipulate everything (and people blame unions), and very poor planning, which is why they decided to upgrade the Gardner and Lakeshore AT THE SAME TIME.
Transit expansion? new Gardner? I've been hearing that since I was a kid. Won't happen until Toronto taxes come up to national levels, meanwhile, we will see bridge collapses like Quebec.
Roomie
Banned
eljay
Well-known member
I lived downtown since 2008. North York now. 2 years ago this city really started grating on me. Traffic because of construction, "events" on weekends, etc... I made a plan and TOMORROW I'm executing. Screw this city. It's trying so hard to fail; I sortof noticed that when I moved hear from Alberta. Check my rants on Torontonians sub-optimal outcome seeking algorithms. The denizens can eat themselves. We bought a house in Oshawa for 100k less than our condo is worth. We have a bigger yard than I ever dreamed in my life, garage, parks nearby.
Toronto henceforth will be a point where I insert myself each morning and extricate myself each evening and collect a paycheque. My commute will be 15 minutes longer each way. Oh damn TTC!!! I won't be getting my daily virus update anymore.
My wife and I work near each other, so we drive in together (really early). My only ***** in life will be the 401/DVP/Bloor and back again.
Toronto henceforth will be a point where I insert myself each morning and extricate myself each evening and collect a paycheque. My commute will be 15 minutes longer each way. Oh damn TTC!!! I won't be getting my daily virus update anymore.
My wife and I work near each other, so we drive in together (really early). My only ***** in life will be the 401/DVP/Bloor and back again.
cbcanada
Banned
Any racket is grean light just as long as you dont collect donations for a boys football team by writing the donation request on a city letterhead that you paid for so the tax payers dont have to pay for it.
Thats where the line in the sand is drawn!!!
"If i was educated, I'd be a damn fool"
Funny you say that, just this week we almost had the 427 north ramp off 401 come down...
dasiffy
Well-known member
No, it would not, it would probably take 40 years and cost 200% more than the budget approval.
Because you (Toronto) cannot afford it. Remember the property tax increases artificially kept low, so you have one of the lowest in North America? The government will refuse to cover it, so it has to some from some place ... the list is long .. .aging pipes, hydro grid, hurting public transit ... not a good outlook for Toronto is it?
"It's New York run by the Swiss!" Ah, Peter Ustinov, you were such a sly joker.
