peterboroAvatars are for posersPremium
join:2006-11-03
Peterborough, ON | Biggest storm in years. Call the army now! Here we go again in Toronto. Lets watch the comedy show as Toronto gets hit with the biggest storm in years. Will Ford call in the army???
»www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/02···nto.html |
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 donoreoPremium
join:2002-05-30
North York, ON | He will call in a football team  |
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 AnavSarcastic Llama? Naw, Just AcerbicPremium
join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS
kudos:3 | reply to peterboro
We dont need another weather thread for the same event.
That being said, the armys job is to not to clear the streets as this would be competing with local businesses and taking away their financial opportunities. |
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peterboroAvatars are for posersPremium
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Peterborough, ON | said by Anav:We dont need another weather thread for the same event. Ah, but this a Toronto centric thread. |
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The image breaks my heart, a young mother pushing her child over an inch of snow covered grass... for some fucked up bizarre reason. |
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Viper359Premium
join:2006-09-17
Scarborough, ON Reviews:
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While I appreciate the good humour in it all, lets be real, when Toronto called in the army, it was for good reason. Unlike small town somewhere, Toronto doesn't have anywhere to put the snow. It has to be trucked out. It doesn't have wide open, empty streets, that plows can just fly up and clear, they are narrow, and most plows, when the street doesn't have vehicles on them can barely get past. I know, its fun to joke, but, he did the right thing back then. No TTC, no clear streets, means this city grinds to a halt. Warehouses don't get the food / product shipments out, people cannot get to work, businesses were closed. It was a very real situation. I actually remember a small town grocery store calling our distro office because they were running out of supplies, and we couldn't get our trucks out, because our employee's couldn't get to work to load the trucks quick enough. |
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peterboroAvatars are for posersPremium
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Peterborough, ON | This province has an abundance of cities and towns with downtown cores that replicate Toronto's but on a smaller scale and they don't run to the army. |
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 elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
join:2006-08-30
HarperLand
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They dump a ton of it in the Don Valley, where it's a melting cesspool of toxic waste well into the summer.
They used to dump it in the lake before it became an environmental NO NO, but if it leeches into the lake (via the Don River) that's ok. |
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elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
join:2006-08-30
HarperLand Reviews:
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said by peterboro:This province has an abundance of cities and towns with downtown cores that replicate Toronto's but on a smaller scale and they don't run to the army.
That abundance of small towns and cities don't have move millions of people across town to work, they don't have a transit system that provides another 1/2m or so rides a day.
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Viper359Premium
join:2006-09-17
Scarborough, ON Reviews:
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Yeah, with a population of 100 000 people, not 3-4 Million, plus another 1 million trying to come into the city. Comparing a small town to Toronto is silly in so many ways. However, you are right, next time, maybe we won't call in the army, and we can let small town Ontario go without supplies for a week. |
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donoreoPremium
join:2002-05-30
North York, ON | reply to Viper359
said by Viper359:While I appreciate the good humour in it all, lets be real, when Toronto called in the army, it was for good reason. Unlike small town somewhere, Toronto doesn't have anywhere to put the snow. It has to be trucked out. It doesn't have wide open, empty streets, that plows can just fly up and clear, they are narrow, and most plows, when the street doesn't have vehicles on them can barely get past. I know, its fun to joke, but, he did the right thing back then. No TTC, no clear streets, means this city grinds to a halt. Warehouses don't get the food / product shipments out, people cannot get to work, businesses were closed. It was a very real situation. I actually remember a small town grocery store calling our distro office because they were running out of supplies, and we couldn't get our trucks out, because our employee's couldn't get to work to load the trucks quick enough.
Um....no. Not the case at all. Toronto dumps snow all over from the few areas that they remove it. Toronto has very few areas where they actually do snow removal, mostly it is just ploughed and ploughed. As Elwood mentioned, one of the places is the Don Valley. It is right off the on and off ramp for Bayview and Bloor. They rotate the locations around and do not use the same one every year.
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Viper359Premium
join:2006-09-17
Scarborough, ON Reviews:
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| That is my point, its put into dump trucks, and carted away. I didn't say where they put it. I was saying that they just don't drive a plough down the street, and dump it at the end of the street, where it will stay for the entire winter. Unless of course, its a mild winter. Just look at most of the side streets around us, they never get ploughed, a truck can't get down most of them in downtown and center town Toronto.
In a bad winter, I have seen them cart away from almost every major artery in the city, not counting the hi-way of course. |
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 DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
join:2001-03-22
Owen Sound, ON
kudos:2 | reply to Viper359
said by Viper359: Unlike small town somewhere, Toronto doesn't have anywhere to put the snow.
Um... it's called "parks". Toronto has lots of them.  They also have five MetroMelters. And the Gasbag Brothers.
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bt
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said by Viper359:That is my point, its put into dump trucks, and carted away. I didn't say where they put it. I was saying that they just don't drive a plough down the street, and dump it at the end of the street, where it will stay for the entire winter.
Most cities do that. Including many much smaller than Toronto. |
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DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
join:2001-03-22
Owen Sound, ON
kudos:2 | reply to urbanriot
said by urbanriot:The image breaks my heart, a young mother pushing her child over an inch of snow covered grass... for some fucked up bizarre reason. Oh! The humanity! 
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Viper359Premium
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Scarborough, ON | reply to DKS
gasbag brothers......LOLOLOLOLOL |
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elwoodbluesElwood BluesPremium
join:2006-08-30
HarperLand | reply to DKS
I think the Metromelters are gone, I've not seen one on the road in years. What i do see is bob cats and front end loaders scopping up the snow at the side of the road and trucking it away, faster and more efficient then the MetroMelters. |
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DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
join:2001-03-22
Owen Sound, ON
kudos:2 | reply to Viper359
said by Viper359:gasbag brothers......LOLOLOLOLOL
Beats calling out the army...
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Viper359Premium
join:2006-09-17
Scarborough, ON | Plus, with the hot air those two spew, they could melt most of the snow!!! |
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DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
join:2001-03-22
Owen Sound, ON
kudos:2 | reply to elwoodblues
said by elwoodblues:I think the Metromelters are gone, I've not seen one on the road in years.
They are still listed on the city web site as being in service.
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