Rob Ford grinds to a halt

Rob Ford's transportation plan involves replacing streetcars with buses, claiming they are "cheaper and safer" than streetcars. But he ignores the fact that streetcars can carry more people, pollute less, are safer (yes, they are) and attract more ridership than buses. Replacing streetcars with buses is the way of the 1950s, not the way of Now. Don't vote for Ford.

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[igorradovic93]

whats the name of that low floor tram

[gricer1326]

@igorradovic93 Bombardier Flexity Outlook.

[cheeriosinabowl]

First off, fix our roads! Too many potholes, cracked roads, hard hard hard on the cars!

[bassplayer923]

Interesting, I wonder how Streetcars are safer than buses. Often people get hit by cyclists and cars when they get off from streetcars because there are way too many idiots driving in downtown. With buses, there'll be no accident like that. Also, Streetcars are too old, they don't even have A/C. Slower than buses and when a streetcar gets stuck, the whole line is blocked and have to divert for a few good hours. No worries with the buses.

[Zirocket8]

@Baseshocks I agree

[Zirocket8]

@Baseshocks that's what I said lol

[Baseshocks]

@Zirocket8 more like Subway>Bus>Streetcar. Subways put people underground, it takes millions of people and moves them around underground the city, every world class city on the planet has proper systems. Toronto is growing, we need to put these people underground.

The surface routes are cheap fixes that will come back to us and haunt us later. If we continue to build on station every 2 years adding to TTC we would have a world class system.

Fuck the cheap fix.

[octoberpunk30]

@Zirocket8 in terms of...?

[Zirocket8]

@bassplayer923 Streetcar>Bus>Subway

[pplk23]

its sad how people view lrts as streetcars. LRTs in Transit city would provide a higher average speed than St. Clair or Spadina, even some portions of the Eglinton Crosstown would be faster than the BD subways. An average light rail vehicle can hold nearly 200 people in crush load, it would take atleast 4 buses to fit almost as much. And all TC lines would have dedicated stops so that passengers don't go into the middle of the street for a vehicle. LRT is much more than a "glorified streetcar"

[gricer1326]

@bassplayer923 Not even remotely accurate. LRT uses bigger, faster trains on dedicated tracks with protected intersections, signal priority, bidirectional cars, multiple-unit running, all-door boarding and dedicated STATIONS. How many times do I have to repeat this before you understand?

[damedoodie]

You wanna see your TTC dollars at work. Any day of the week at any time, check out Maybrook Drive in Scarborough, you'd have to go to a registered breeding kennel to see THAT much dog fucking in one location!