{"id":71,"date":"2005-07-29T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=71"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:52:00","slug":"this-just-in-gridlock-is-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/29\/this-just-in-gridlock-is-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"This just in: Gridlock is Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/klbcommunityconsulting.com\/images\/gridlock.jpg\" alt=\"gridlock\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Tory just announced the Ontario Conservative initiative to solve our Gridlock problem. They&#8217;ve set up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gridlocked.ca\">this<\/a> website, as a place where you can tell them what you think about Gridlock, and also share your ideas with the Tory trafficologists. <\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t want to be cynical and pre-judge something from the party most festooned with SUVs, so we&#8217;ll assume this is Tory doing what the opposition party should do. So, we should all go to site and contribute and counteract the people who will say more lanes on the DVP are the solution. Tell them you want more subways. The thought of an Eglinton Subway makes us hot and bothered (oh ya, the Mike Harris Tories axed it). Subways to Mississauga, more regular Go service, and more light rail put us over the top. If it gets you going too, tell &#8217;em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Tory just announced the Ontario Conservative initiative to solve our Gridlock problem. They&#8217;ve set up this website, as a place where you can tell them what you think about Gridlock, and also share your ideas with the Tory trafficologists. We don&#8217;t want to be cynical and pre-judge something from the party most festooned with<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/29\/this-just-in-gridlock-is-bad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;This just in: Gridlock is Bad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,8,20],"tags":[23,444,79,12,445],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-space","category-traffic","category-transit","category-urban-design","tag-environment","tag-john-tory","tag-mississauga","tag-planning","tag-subways"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This just in: Gridlock is Bad - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/29\/this-just-in-gridlock-is-bad\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This just in: Gridlock is Bad - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John Tory just announced the Ontario Conservative initiative to solve our Gridlock problem. 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