{"id":500,"date":"2022-08-29T16:19:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T20:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/?p=500"},"modified":"2022-08-29T17:37:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T21:37:22","slug":"transit-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/transit-realism\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit Realism:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I feel very <\/em>strongly that we need a \u201crealistic\u201d plan for transit and it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

is the largest issue facing us now. The current plan, which by the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

way the incumbent voted for, does not include anything for the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Osgoode Ward even in the year 2031! What I cannot understand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

is why the incumbent would vote for plans such as this that have<\/p>\n\n\n\n

no vision for our area. How is this representing us? <\/strong>I feel that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

there has been a lot of \u201cpie in the sky\u201d dreaming by the City on this<\/p>\n\n\n\n

matter, without proper costing out <\/em>done. A thorough cost\/benefit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

analysis of the project does not seem to exist. There should also<\/p>\n\n\n\n

be concern expressed with regard to tunneling near major fault<\/p>\n\n\n\n

lines and the huge cost over-runs that will likely occur if this<\/p>\n\n\n\n

project takes place. Furthermore, the disruptions that will occur in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the City during construction will be a nightmare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should simply do the following: extend the existing O-Train<\/p>\n\n\n\n

train tracks, getting VIA approvals and utilizing existing rights of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ways to rural areas.\u00b9 This could be done with a realistic \u201cpay as<\/p>\n\n\n\n

you go\u201d approach. Moreover, the transit plan as it is currently<\/p>\n\n\n\n

proposed is not only far too <\/em><\/strong>expensive, it is backwards. The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

concept should be to use rail to efficiently move people from rural<\/p>\n\n\n\n

areas into the city. The problem the city \u201cthinks\u201d is solved by light<\/p>\n\n\n\n

rail would be greatly reduced by taking the large number of cars<\/p>\n\n\n\n

traveling from rural areas off the road. Existing rapid transit bus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

routes in the city should now be enhanced to meet the concept of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a proper rapid transit system. Without any regards to logic or <\/em><\/strong>the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

taxpayers the current City council came up with a plan that Must<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be Stopped !<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel very strongly that we need a \u201crealistic\u201d plan for transit and it is the largest issue facing us now. The current plan, which by the way the incumbent voted for, does not include anything for the Osgoode Ward even in the year 2031! What I cannot understand is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobmasaro.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}