james_nicoll

Next up: they ban the subway.

They would be better off banning Mayor Ford.

Maybe they can work out an exchange with NYC for Mayor Bloomberg.

You know..... That just might work.

Why on Earth would Toronto want Bloomberg? So they can also have police officers roaming the halls of their apartment buildings and hauling off anybody who looks suspicious has a skin tone darker than the average Bandaid, unless they're carrying photo ID? Because there's too much character in Toronto, and not enough soulless corporate blandness? So he can put someone totally incompetent in charge of Toronto's school system? So the Toronto cops can have absolute freedom to be the fascist thugs they not-so-secretly want to be, and raise Toronto's stop-and-frisk rate by 600% too?

I mean, seriously, at least there is that about Ford; he's a dumb bumbling right-winger, instead of a smart competent one who runs to the left and governs to the hard right.

Bloomberg has been good for bike lanes and closing off streets to car traffic.

Are you telling me that he's gotten rid of NYC's bike lanes?

That's a joke, I say, a joke, son.

Although I would dispute the idea that Bloomberg governs from the hard-right -- this is a guy who wants to ban 20oz sodas while allowing possession of one ounce of marijuana.

NYC politics don't map that cleanly onto the rest of the USA, let alone other countries.

Well, that worked out for Mayor Ford.

Yeah, they'll have to put him in one of those giant paper lawn waste sacks when they finally kick him to the curb.

Triple-ply?

Boo!

Another successful step in the "make life harder for those who don't drive" program. I congratulate city council.

William Hyde