{"id":3289,"date":"2008-06-20T12:59:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T16:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/06\/20\/3289\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:48:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:48:52","slug":"3289","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/06\/20\/3289\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Your thoughts on tearing down the Gardiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2026\/2536263259_4ca408afe2.jpg\" height=\"463\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Urban Affairs critic Christopher Hume, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/GTA\/Columnist\/article\/446505\">today&#8217;s Toronto Star<\/a>, expressed his disappointment that local decision-makers lack the gumption to do the best thing for the waterfront and tear down the entire Gardiner Expressway. <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/05\/30\/gardiner-to-come-tumbling-down-kind-of\/\">A lot of opinions<\/a> have been expressed since Spacing <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/05\/29\/breaking-news-front-street-extension-officially-cancelled\/\">broke the story a few weeks ago<\/a> about Waterfront Toronto&#8217;s plans, and here&#8217;s your chance to let us know by voting on it and telling us your thoughts in the comments section.<\/p>\n<p>(<b>NOTE:<\/b> Spacing has been experiencing some delays from our polling service &#8212; please come back soon if you can&#8217;t see the voting option)<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\/poll.swf\" allowscriptaccess=\"never\" saveembedtags=\"true\" flashvars=\"p=714892\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" name=\"beta3\" salign=\"tl\" scale=\"autoscale\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" height=\"448\" width=\"252\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Affairs critic Christopher Hume, in today&#8217;s Toronto Star, expressed his disappointment that local decision-makers lack the gumption to do the best thing for the waterfront and tear down the entire Gardiner Expressway. 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