SNOW
• Snow crews take aim at clogged roads [ Toronto Star ]
• Toronto faces $20-million bill to clear it’s streets of snow [ Globe and Mail ]
• ‘A never-ending cycle of stupidity’ [ Globe and Mail ]
• City staff admits lack of snow preparation [ National Post ]
• T.O. up to here with snow [ Toronto Sun ]
• City crews to focus on snow removal [ CBC.ca ]
• Road salt in ample abundance across GTA [ Toronto Star ]
TRANSIT
• Little zeal for uploading TTC [ Toronto Star ]
• Mayor Miller insists city won’t give up TTC to province [ National Post ]
• TTC spends $6M for relief at rush hour [ National Post ]
• Transit reading: An anthropological study [ Globe and Mail ]
• Written in stone [ Globe and Mail ]
• [ Toronto Star ]
MISCELLANEOUS
• Great cities recycle buildings [ Toronto Star ]
• We’re afraid of everything, for crying out loud [ Toronto Star ]
5 comments
In “‘A never-ending cycle of stupidity’” Tenille Bonoguore expresses her ignorance of the HTA with the following veiled threat:
“And five
Pedestrians battling slippery sidewalks should remember that drivers face the same challenge. Don’t stride out into oncoming traffic without a) signalling your intent far in advance, or b) donning your instantly inflating super-airbag-pants to cushion the likely impact.”
What is going on here? Last week it was Andy Barrie marginalising bicyclists and suggesting it was ok to run them over in bad weather, this week it is Tenille Bonoguore saying its ok to run over pedestrians. There are allowances for pedestrians to use roadways under the HTA and it can be argued when sidewalks are rendered unusable due to lack of maintenance there is no choice but to use the roadway. Suggestible individuals are prone to taking her rantings as an endorsement to maim or kill pedestrians. This should not be acceptable and I don’t see why the Globe and Mail would find it acceptable to endorse this activity by printing this bilge. What’s more I find it surprising they would find it acceptable to print threats in their paper.
Dear Editor (Globe and Mail)
In ‘A never-ending cycle of stupidity’ TENILLE BONOGUORE states;
“And five
Pedestrians battling slippery sidewalks should remember that drivers face the same challenge. Don’t stride out into oncoming traffic without a) signalling your intent far in advance, or b) donning your instantly inflating super-airbag-pants to cushion the likely impact.”
That sounds remarkably like a threat to pedestrians and an endorsement for motorists to use their vehicles as weapons against pedestrians.
In a similar manner is it editorial policy to encourage people to use guns? The injuries are no less serious.
I would like to remind the MTO Drivers Handbook has a section on “sharing the road”. http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dandv/driver/handbook/section2.3.1.shtml
Your writer might best review the section on “sharing the road with pedestrians” at http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dandv/driver/handbook/section2.3.6.shtml
I read this as somewhat tongue in cheek and that the message was to beware that cars (and bicycles) have a harder stopping sometimes in snow so make sure that you take that into account when crossing (as I do). I didn’t perceive any threat part.
One wonders what city politicians have been smoking, they are spending 30% of this years snow clearing budget on snow that is going to be removed naturally in a few weeks anyway.
Wogster> that is what the money is for. Until last night many streets in my area were almost un-usable and a real problem for Fire Trucks. The reason that things got so bad is that they didnt remove snow after the second storm.