peterboro (banned)Avatars are for posers
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Re: Biggest storm in years. Call the army now!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. |
actions · 2013-Feb-7 12:32 pm · (locked) |
 elwoodbluesElwood Blues
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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. |
actions · 2013-Feb-7 12:33 pm · (locked) |
Viper359
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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. |
actions · 2013-Feb-7 12:34 pm · (locked) |
 Wolfie007My dog is an elitist
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said by Viper359: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.
Nicely said! Any significant snow over Toronto affects millions of people, millions of vehicles, and thousands of major businesses. The logistics of what it takes to coordinate life in a big city like Toronto or New York is just astounding if you actually look at the flow of goods and people, and it takes relatively little to throw this fine-tuned orchestration into chaos, and the impacts are felt far and wide. Comparing it to snow over some rural backwater is just silly. |
actions · 2013-Feb-7 12:49 pm · (locked) |
elwoodbluesElwood Blues
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A couple of years back the TTC had a wildcat strike..it was chaos. good thing I rode a bike to work. |
actions · 2013-Feb-7 1:43 pm · (locked) |
peterboro (banned)Avatars are for posers
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said by elwoodblues: 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. Cities and towns are just a smaller version of Toronto. No different regardless of all your superfluous puffery of transit and such. |
actions · 2013-Feb-7 2:28 pm · (locked) |
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said by Viper359: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. Pfffft. You've got a massive public works budget for a reason. Use it. Face it, despite all your bleating about population, cities are just a microcosm of Toronto with idiosyncratic problems of their own yet they don't go into hysterics like you guys do. Plus we can do without your supplies considering they consist of head offices and financial institutions set to rip off the rest of the province. Maybe if the city was snowed in for a month the rest of the province would be better off. |
actions · 2013-Feb-7 2:33 pm · (locked) |
 J E F F4Whatta Ya Think About Dat?
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Places like Montreal can do it, with their millions of people, why not Toronto?
Also, many small cities like Mississauga or Hamilton or London or Kitchener have to cope with significant snowfalls with the fraction of the vehicles and personal and deal with roads that are just as busy as the busy ones in Toronto. |
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said by peterboro:said by Viper359: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. Pfffft. You've got a massive public works budget for a reason. Use it. Face it, despite all your bleating about population, cities are just a microcosm of Toronto with idiosyncratic problems of their own yet they don't go into hysterics like you guys do. Plus we can do without your supplies considering they consist of head offices and financial institutions set to rip off the rest of the province. Maybe if the city was snowed in for a month the rest of the province would be better off. OK now the knifes are out and the real reason for the thread perhaps? On weather front, it started snowing in Scarborough. Not that heavy... |
actions · 2013-Feb-7 2:56 pm · (locked) |
Wolfie007My dog is an elitist
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said by peterboro:Cities and towns are just a smaller version of Toronto. No different regardless of all your superfluous puffery of transit and such.
That must be why every little hick town and village has its own tiny little subway system running beneath it. Because transportation logistics are exactly the same.  |
actions · 2013-Feb-7 2:57 pm · (locked) |
 GuspazGuspaz
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True, Toronto's subway system is pretty tiny :P
On a more serious level, the Toronto subway's daily ridership is less than Montreal, despite having double the population. This is perhaps an unfair comparison, as Montreal has abnormally high subway ridership per capita. Third highest absolute ridership in North America (for all light rail systems, below or above ground) after NYC and Mexico City, second highest per capita after NYC. |
actions · 2013-Feb-7 3:32 pm · (locked) |
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J E F F4Whatta Ya Think About Dat?
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J E F F4
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2013-Feb-7 3:49 pm
It's because the all the subways ride on tires in Montreal. Or as my daughter said when she was 2 1/2, "blue bus-trains". People prefer rubber over metal any day.
Back OT, you'd think having subways would make snow removal easier, as fewer cars on the road, and most subways need not be plowed. (Except for portions of the Young-University line) |
actions · 2013-Feb-7 3:49 pm · (locked) |
peterboro (banned)Avatars are for posers
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said by Wolfie007: That must be why every little hick town and village has its own tiny little subway system running beneath it. Because transportation logistics are exactly the same. Cities other than Toronto have their own transit systems with their own problems as well. I would suspect that, and this might sound crazy, but getting a bus up some hills in Peterborough compared to moving a subway car, might be a tad more difficult in a blizzard in Peterborough. |
actions · 2013-Feb-7 3:50 pm · (locked) |
 you2Mmm, gravy train.
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you2
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2013-Feb-7 4:06 pm
Did Toronto harm you as a child or something? Such hate. |
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