Dear Rob Ford: DIAF

[sabotabby]

Rob Ford is mayor starting today, and is already the worst mayor ever.





Transit City would have saved me hours of commuting a week. It would have given my kids better access to jobs and education. It would have made them less socially, culturally, and economically isolated from the downtown core.


The subway will not get built. Rob Ford's transit plan is about as realistic as if he'd just offered to buy everyone a pony.

I wish, oh, I wish, that there was one honest cop left in Toronto who could arrest this wife-beating, drug-addled son-of-a-bitch on one of his drunken joyrides. I wish his driver's license would be permanently suspended, dooming him to a lifetime of taking public transit with us plebes.

Die in all the fires, Mayor Ford.

Fuck.

Comments

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

The hurt the city for years part is the part that really hurts me. If it were just a matter of toughing it out through the next four years, that'd be bad, but tolerable. It's that it's taken years of study and planning and securing funding to make Transit City possible, and Transit City would make the city more accessible for so many people. Scrapping all that work in favour of some half-baked, exponentially more expensive, unfunded idea will put accessible, sustainable transit years behind. We don't need subways. We need rapid, mass transit that connects the former boroughs to each other and to the core. I really don't care whether that transit comes in the form of streetcars, subways, or zeppelins as long as it happens quickly, safely, and in a way that will allow as many people as possible to use it.

Also? It takes a lot more work to make subways universally accessible than it does rapid transit.

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

I agree with you wholeheartedly. This is ego triumphing over logic and empathy. Accessibility doesn't seem to me to be high on Ford's list of priorities.

He ran on this platform of supposed fiscal responsibility, and the first thing he does is incur millions of dollars in penalties cancelling a contract that would've been good for the long-term health of the city and its citizens.

That is the opposite of responsibility, and it's so disheartening. :(

(Also, zeppelins!)