GREENBERG: Crumbling Gardiner offers Toronto an opportunity

Ken Greenberg – Spacing Toronto – Dec. 13, 2012

The truth has now come out, albeit grudgingly.

We have just learned via a Freedom of Information request by the Toronto Star that notwithstanding months of misleading reassurances to the effect that the “falling concrete” problem was superficial, nearly half of the elevated portion of the Gardiner Expressway is becoming structurally unstable and those entire portions will have to be fully rebuilt.

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Mayor of NYC supports pedestrians and mass transit

Bloomberg says mass transit, cyclists ‘more important’ than drivers who clog roads

By JENNIFER FERMINO
October 26, 2012
New York Post

Mass transit riders, cyclists and pedestrians are “more important” than motorists, who clog up the roads, Mayor Bloomberg said today.