July #TOcouncil links:
- Agenda (no-JS text version)
- Meeting monitor (for current item)
- Livestream: July 23, July 24, July 25
See @GraphicMatt for live updates; my occasional observations & reactions in thread 🧵
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FUCK YEAH the TERF head librarian is retiring I can stop boycotting the Toronto Public Library (it's been like 8 years. I hold grudges) https://mastodon.social/@GraphicMatt/114902859587107990
Okay I gotta step away from nightmare rectangle, seriously need coffee for to endure RapidTO Bathurst debate
Aaaand the carve-outs begin. Cllr Saxe wants an exception for a stretch near Dupont where small business owners have no other access to parking (same as it ever was eyerolls).
Everyone wants the bus to go faster, no one wants to deprioritize cars
(Item: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.EX25.4)
"I knocked on all the doors from Eglinton down to Queen," says Cllr Bravo.
Holyday comes out swinging: "More like CongestionTO. I think it's rubbish!" He is very scornful of the idea of dedicated bus lanes and is a staunch induced demand denier.
(He says it doesn't save enough time—"it only saves three minutes!" An enterprising person could look up if he's said anything about the Gardiner East, which many councillors campaigned to keep up because it would slow down drivers by, like, 5-8 minutes? I can't remember. Was he even on Council then? Look, it's all kind of a blur.)
Holyday thinks the City is just doing it to look "progressive" to FIFA tourists, but most visitors, who presumably will be driving cars in Holyday's imagination, will see "the worst congestion" ever. And with that, lunch break!
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I feel like I should livestream the Council feed with my face in the corner so you can all see me just generally being in agony. I feel that is the kind of thing people find entertaining
watching & livetooting City Council the way it was meant to be: from the command line
Cllr Carroll reminds us all that it's two years since the SRT (prematurely) went offline. "There's [temporary RapidTO-like lanes] in Scarborough and they lived to tell the tale."
She says that personally, she felt it less aggravating to drive after the priority bus lanes were added because drivers don't have to deal with changing lanes to pass stopped buses, etc.
"We cannot side with those people who are constantly saying Toronto must do something about this congestion and traffic, but stand up here and say 'but we can't change anything'."
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