"Not to sound like I'm bragging or anything but we have more [influence] than the average person."

[c9]

My only comment (for now): oh for fuck's sake.

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/477380

Comments

[thespos]

Wow... how... American? :-)

[zanate.livejournal.com]

Pretty universal. Just some choice quotes that make it newsworthy.

Nobody wants a bus going by their front door. I remember reading some Region of Waterloo documentation on the study process that went into a recent rerouting, and it listed the complaints and GRT's responses. Read something like this:

Complaint: Too noisy, too polluting
Response: GRT buses are less noisy than garbage trucks, and less polluting than the traffic they replace.

Complaint: Unsafe in neighbourhoods with children playing
Response: Private cars are responsible for the vast majority of accidents involving children.

My favourite:
Complaint: (X) Street not suitable for buses, bus traffic lowers property values
Response: (X) Street was designated a future transit route in 1991 and designed to support it. This information was publicly available.

[iambic-cub.livejournal.com]

Wow! I'd love to have transit stop on my doorstep. In fact, the first rule of any place I will ever move to will be that it has to be close to transit.

Of course, you can contrast this with comments made by the Premier of Nova Scotia a few months ago on the price of gas, when he said that people should take the bus more. That played really well with all my family in the backwoods.

[quingawaga.livejournal.com]

Kind of a weak response about buses being less noisy than garbage trucks. Sure they are, but the garbage truck only goes by once a week as opposed to several times a day!

Anyway. I used to live in an apartment on University Ave where the 7, 8 and 12 ran right past me. The noise really did suck (window-rattlingly loud, sometimes) but the convenience was awesome. I was way more irritated by the noise of the drunken people on the patio at McGinnis Front Row.

[canuckotter.livejournal.com]

Just... Wow. I have to wonder if that comment was included by the paper as a sneaky way of basically torpedoing any chance the woman has at succeeding? After all, if the re-routing passes now, everyone will know that it's because she's friends with people at City Hall... Which means that everyone in the neighbourhood will know that their rep is corrupt... Any politician with brains will be distancing themselves from her as quickly as possible now.

[bartok.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, she'll probably be complaining soon about if they want to put a wind-farm anywhere near her.

[ultranorsk.livejournal.com]

Someone needs a more interesting life. Perhaps she should take up heavy drinking!

[jpman.livejournal.com]

People (specifically her) are disgusting.