Could not agree with you more, bentguy. If ever there was a time to get off one’s butt and support someone, this is it. I plan to drag myself out into the cold to support Gregor next time around. If he loses, we could lose everything we have gained – even though we so obviously deserve to have even MORE infrastructure, NOT less.

Rob Ford was not created in a vacuum… unfortunately.

His out-and-out fear and loathing of all things cycling is not just regrettable, to my mind it’s categorically chilling. That he can make statements like, “My heart bleeds when some (cyclist) gets killed, but it’s their own fault at the end of the day;” that he can run and win a mayoral campaign in a major city in part because of his abhorrence for downtown bike lanes and those who would use them declaring, “cyclists are a pain in the ass,” and that he can affirm his palpable hate-mongering with scant criticism and wild support from the suburbs, leaves me gobsmacked.

The weak and hoary assertion that roads are built for cars, trucks and buses and that they’re funded exclusively by motorists encourages the Rob Fords of the world to decry that cyclists, pedestrians and other non-motorized road users are freeloaders who not only lack the same right as they to use public roads, but have even less claim to a piece –no matter how minute– of the infrastructure tax pie.

Of course the evidence contradicts this cock-and-bull story, but the Rob Fords of the world will never let a little thing like the truth get in the way of their opinions. Let’s make no assumptions about Gregor’s chances next time. He will still need all the support he can get.

Perhaps with such high numbers he should throw around the idea of a congestion tax for entering the downtown core?
David Miller threw around the idea of one a few years ago. Since the suburbanites vote for Toronto’s mayor he had to drop the idea immediately as just the thought had people enraged.

As for Campbell and the HST…Good for the people of BC. Ontarians whined on the radio for about two days, then just took it.
I find it funny because 7-years ago when McGuinty was elected premier of this province, he ran on “no new taxes”. Since he has been in we have had a dozen new taxes slapped on us…Sad thing? Next year he’ll probably be re-elected because of how bad the alternatives are.