http://www.bricoleurbanism.org/whimsicality/gardiner-to-come-tumbling-down/ urbanism - landscape - ideas - theory - whimsy Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:33:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.bricoleurbanism.org/whimsicality/gardiner-to-come-tumbling-down/comment-page-1/#comment-15500 Kevin Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:17:38 +0000 http://www.bricoleurbanism.org/?p=312#comment-15500 Well, though I totally agree that the Gardiner needs to come down, at least SOME day, it is nice, in a disappointing way, to know that even big brother Toronto has its share of incompetant planners. Here in Windsor we've been arguing for seven years about how to build a new international crossing to Detroit to ease truck traffic. For years now, the city has been clogged with international trade traffic (partly Toronto's garbage)and it's time to build a new crossing outside the city. The Province and the Feds together want to plow through the middle of the city with a new highway; the owner of the current bridge wants to "upgrade" the current road the the bridge to a monster; and the city hired a planner from New York to come up with a cut-and-cover route around the majorly developed areas. None of these ideas is going to be right in the end; none of them will benefit the city. So I hope that you get as much consolation in knowing your city isn't the only one with major highway woes as I do. Well, though I totally agree that the Gardiner needs to come down, at least SOME day, it is nice, in a disappointing way, to know that even big brother Toronto has its share of incompetant planners. Here in Windsor we’ve been arguing for seven years about how to build a new international crossing to Detroit to ease truck traffic. For years now, the city has been clogged with international trade traffic (partly Toronto’s garbage)and it’s time to build a new crossing outside the city. The Province and the Feds together want to plow through the middle of the city with a new highway; the owner of the current bridge wants to “upgrade” the current road the the bridge to a monster; and the city hired a planner from New York to come up with a cut-and-cover route around the majorly developed areas. None of these ideas is going to be right in the end; none of them will benefit the city. So I hope that you get as much consolation in knowing your city isn’t the only one with major highway woes as I do.

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