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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
My point is that we set a ridiculous speed limit, fine people heavily, often those not familiar with the city and leave a bad taste for those visiting downtown.
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Putting speed cameras and artificially lowering the speed limits doesn't help, I agree. Hunt Club was designed for speeds of 100 km/h, but the limit is 50 km/h (of whatever) in the "safe" zone. Well, maybe is should have been designed for 50km/h speeds then. We continue to build our roads far too wide.
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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
It is the political class who made these decisions and you supported some of this.
With 75 percent of Ottawa suburban, without suburban buy-in, there is not sufficient population to support a subway.
With your disdain for the suburbs, amalgamation should not have taken place. Of course, you would be in Gloucester
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Amalgamation should have gone differently. Inside the Greenbelt, the suburban ring and the rural areas should have been annexed by rural Counties around them. Having urban, mid-century suburban, modern suburbs and rural areas with competing interests doesn't serve anyone well.
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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
Toronto just passed a 9.5% tax increase. Ottawa stuck to 2.5%. These two cities are not the same.
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Yup. The 2.5% cap was irresponsible. Promise should be to cap the tax heights at inflation if a politicians want to do that.
The difference between Ottawa and Toronto is that Ottawa voted for the boring guy who promised low taxes instead of the progressive that had very different ideas to move the City forward, and a tax promise that was slightly more realistic (3%). Toronto did the same until the guy cheated on his wife and resigned. When they had a second chance, they made the choice to try something different in Olivia Chow.
Let's hope Sutcliffe follow's the lead of Tory and Belisle; resign, this job isn't for you.
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