Comment 88975

By Shempatolla (registered) - website | Posted May 25, 2013 at 08:50:54

For most of Hazel's tenure, she couldn't give a flying fig about public transit. Evidence? Have you ever been to Mississauga north of the QEW? It's a collective of gated neighborhoods ringed by six lane stop lighted freeways with posted speed limits of 70kph, which means everyone does 90. It makes Main St in Hamilton look like a cart path. If you've ever bothered to look at a Mississauga Transit bus, the only routes with any kind of ridership are the Hurontario, Bloor and Eglinton lines leading to Toronto. The rest are mostly useful for burning diesel fuel and mostly empty seats.

For Mayor McCallion to suddenly embrace public transit and congestion easing is RICH to say the least. West of Toronto it is largely the sprawl and the manner in which it was allowed to sprawl which has been the single biggest contributor to congestion in this section of the GTHA. The juxtaposition of Mississauga (sprawl) next to Toronto (density) is akin to a very large funnel bowl trying to empty into a very small funnel spout. For most of the last 40 years Hazel McCallion cared only about growing Mississauga and gave not a thought about how to integrate this growth in a manner that would be as seamless as possible with the surrounding municipalities. Now she's brow beating the mayors of these municipalities to get on board with Metrolinx? PLEASE.

Cheers

Greg Galante

Hamilton

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