Comment 115114

By kevlahan (registered) | Posted November 26, 2015 at 14:12:00 in reply to Comment 115100

Many of these changes WERE voted on in Participatory budgeting in wards 1 and 2, specifically the two-way conversions of Bold and Duke and traffic calming on Aberdeen. These were exactly referendums, with plenty of advance discussion and information.

If you are asking that every change in every street in every ward get its own referendum voted on by the entire city, that would be crazy! Should the entire city have voted on Wilson Street in Ancaster? Street calming on the Mountain? A new stop sign Dundas?

Regarding LRT, there was a Provincial election and a local election. Pro-LRT candidates won Mayoralty contest, the ward contests in the wards with the LRT and the anti-LRT Provincial candidates lost. The previous Mayor ran on a pro-LRT platform, and Eisenberger was pro-LRT in his first term. How many more votes do you need? Why does this particular project need a city-wide referendum? We don't have referenda for every big project (Red Hill, the Stadium, The Linc, ...) and we certainly don't have referenda for every change in street design. Should we have had a city-wide referendum on the Queen Street hill re-build? The Cannon bike lanes? A new rec centre on the Mountain?

The vision for LRT has always included complete streets renovations of the streets along the corridor: Metrolinx and the City have been clear about this for the past seven years!

Comment edited by kevlahan on 2015-11-26 15:14:59

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