Ford suggests taking marathons, runs off city streets

[Mervyn]

Marathons are on a Saturday when traffic is light. There are far more people using the road by running on it, than by driving on it. I really can't fathom what the problem is, it seems like a minority of people feel they're entitled to drive anywhere they want with no delays whatsoever even if doing so requires inconveniencing half the city. Selfish, in my opinion.

Marathons are a great use of the roads on Saturday and the inconvenience really is pretty minor, and to a small number of people.

Fuji , if for no other reason, if you can minimize the inconvience that any event causes , regardless how small that inconvience is, then do it out of simple courtesy.

That alone is reason enough.

If it's not possible, then fine, it's not possible, but is it so much to ask to for them to try ?

 

[Consilio]

Marathons are on a Saturday when traffic is light. There are far more people using the road by running on it, than by driving on it. I really can't fathom what the problem is, it seems like a minority of people feel they're entitled to drive anywhere they want with no delays whatsoever even if doing so requires inconveniencing half the city. Selfish, in my opinion.

Marathons are a great use of the roads on Saturday and the inconvenience really is pretty minor, and to a small number of people.

The Scotiabank marathon was on Sunday, actually. I happened to be downtown that day, because I needed to do something down there. I've never seen traffic so backed up. You make it sound like it's a ghost town, aside from the marathon. I could see a lot of opportunities where we could make minor adjustments to the route and still have a great marathon.

I've run in the Toronto marathon in the past, and will again. But I think it could be less disruptive. Don't even get me started on the Becel ride for heart - they close down the Gardiner expressway, and for the last 5 years, have closed down Lakeshore Blvd for something else on the same day. That's smart planning.

 

[larry]

marathons are almost all on sundays. boston is on monday. ford was looking to buy some more rube votes. he probably did.

 

[fuji]

marathons are almost all on sundays. boston is on monday. ford was looking to buy some more rube votes. he probably did.

The question is this: Are there more fat fuckers who see a marathon as an impediment to moving their lard asses around in their SUV's, or are there more people who, even if they never quite manage to do it, at least imagine themselves running a marathon some day?

 

[good to go]

Roads are for cars not runners. Get them off the street. Take them to a gym and let them run on a treadmill or something.

 

[fuji]

Roads are for cars not runners. Get them off the street. Take them to a gym and let them run on a treadmill or something.

Says who? Here I thought the public roads were for people.

It's a relatively modern and novel and perhaps wrong idea that pedestrians should yield to cars on the road. Historically, roads have been for walking or running. It's only been the last 90 years or so that anybody had the idea that a car should have any special privilege on the road.

In short people have been running marathons on roads for thousands of years, cars are the interloper.

 

[good to go]

So traffic light are for people, you are one dumb shit. They are for cars so that we dont run over the people crossing the roads, come on Fuju are you really that stoned all of the time.

 

[fuji]

So traffic light are for people, you are one dumb shit. They are for cars so that we dont run over the people crossing the roads, come on Fuju are you really that stoned all of the time.

Traffic lights are a modern invention, they're turned off during a marathon.

 

[fmahovalich]

I agree with Ford...and not just with marathons!

WE hear all the time how bad traffic is...get all this shit off the roadways.

Carabana takes a huge crowd to Centre Island....

Surely other endeavours can move to parks.

And we'd save money with all those police officers and others working overtime on the taxpayers dime!!

 

[good to go]

I dont care where you take the marathon but get it off the streets, make them pay to use the streets just like the tax on gas. Then they will find an alternative place themselves.

 

[Sabiha]

Except that what he does in his personal life gives us some indication of whether or not he'll be good at the job. Someone who makes such poor decisions perhaps shouldn't be in a decision making role.

thanks for taking the words right out of my mouth!

 

[fuji]

I dont care where you take the marathon but get it off the streets, make them pay to use the streets just like the tax on gas. Then they will find an alternative place themselves.

If you want to charge them the same number of cents per hour of use per mile of road that car drivers pay via the gas tax I think they'll be happy to pay. Of course in that case they should get the police for free.

Or were you proposing to start charging the car drivers for the police, just to make it fair?

Also the gas tax is too low if you're hoping to make people pay for what they use--in that case the gas tax should be doubled or maybe tripled to include the environmental impact.

 

[fmahovalich]

Ok ...how about compromise.....I get the HUGE number of runners need a large street for a starting point....


BUT

Let them start on the street...and very shortly thereafter...get them running into a park as the width thins down.

EASY....Case solved!!

NEXT!!

 

[Sabiha]

YEP...

The worst he can do as a drunk driver is kill a few people.... That sucks but really... whatever...

ANYTHING the man does in his personal life is irrelevent so long as he does his fucking job!!!!


WTF is so hard there for you to understand???????

so if rob ford went out and drove drunk and hit your moms car and killed her, you would still fervently support him because hes "doing his job" and what he does in his "personal life" shouldnt matter? i mean, it would suck if your mom was dead and all, but really.... whatever...

 

[fmahovalich]

No Rob FOrd did not kill anyone....

He refused to blow into a breathalyzer.

Many many people have done far far worse..and still are productive citizens...even in public office.

And many many many people have done far far worse than drive after drinking..and never been caught.

So in reality Rob Ford is everybodies man....everyone sees themselves in him as a 'human'

Its a stretch to bring in a hypothetical....cause in that case...NO ONE would be eligible for office NO ONE!!

 

[good to go]

Look in the mirror people .

 

[fuji]

No Rob FOrd did not kill anyone....

He refused to blow into a breathalyzer.

Not so. He claimed that he was charged with refusing to blow into a breathalyzer but that later turned out to be a lie.

It is an issue that he personally lied about repeatedly and his story changed each time he told the lie.

The defence lawyer in Miami who defended him confirmed to the media that he was charged and convicted of impaired driving, and not failing to blow. The record of his conviction is also on the Dade County Clerk's website, and again, it is impaired driving, and not refusal to blow. The police report was published in the Toronto Sun and again, it was impaired driving, not refusal to blow.

He was not just difficult with a police officer, he was stopped because of his unsafe drunk driving and arrested because he was obviously drunk and in no condition to be driving.

This is a classic example of Rob Ford lying, and his sucker supporters falling hook line and sinker for his unrepentant lie.

 

[fmahovalich]

He was convicted of Driving under the Influence....An 'umbrella charge'...that includes 'Refuse Breathalyzer'

Sorta like the umbrella charge of 'Fraud' includes 'Forgery' or "Uttering'.

The specific facts of the case were that he refused to blow into a breathalyzer.

And on the one occasion of 'Gotcha journalism'..he was asked and he 'veiled the truth'..when he did not mention the marijuana cigarette. He explained that at the time of the question he was recalling the DUI business, and when further questioned....readily talked about the joint in his statements. HE always was truthful about drinking and driving. TAlked about the wine and all at Valentines...

It is a lie to say that he 'CONINUALLY LIED" about something......Continual was not part of this story line.

Hey Fuji...who is gonna win the mayors Chair???

 

[fuji]

He was convicted of Driving under the Influence....An 'umbrella charge'...that includes 'Refuse Breathalyzer'

Wrong. Refusing to blow into a breathalyser IS NOT A CRIME in Florida, you CANNOT be charged with it or because of it. Florida simply HAS NO SUCH OFFENCE.

What you are reciting now is another Rob Ford lie, which you are falling for hook line and sinker, because you are a sucker for his lies.

 

[fmahovalich]

I don;t care who wins..I don;t live in the fair city.

I said the facts of the case involved Refuse....not like others suggest he was driving all over th eplace impaired and killing people.



I did ask though..Who is gonna win Fuji?