As Pointed Out In The Comments Let's Direct Our Disgust...

The shame of St. Clair


...where it belongs: "In addition one of Dave Miller's Lap-Dogs Mr. Joe Mihevc has been assigned as the MAIN Project Manager (Commissar) of St. Clair Project. The rails like snake-tracks all the way!
Joe Mihevc's Project Execution caused hundreds unemployed residence of St.Clair and several small business closures. To make everything worst all those welthy and well to do Liberal Leftist Brain-Dead Pinkos RE-ELECTED Mr. Joe Mihevc of St.Clair for other 4 years."   

And how about his manipulation and failure with the Wychwood Barns artsy/fartsy fiasco.               '\

Mayor Ford Message To Stintz...

...tell TTC Management and beauracrats to priortize this long outstanding issue and have a solution, cost and implementation date no later than Dec. 24th or expect Santa to handout pink slips. The 12 scond delay excuse shows that this problem has been studied to death and the former TTC chair Mihevic was more interested in the St. Clair Right of Way debacle and the 12 second delay would be offset by the riders on St. Clair getting a 3 minute reduction.

Bureaucratic fear
Re “TTC stalls bus stop for Variety Village,” (Mike Stobel, Dec. 16): The TTC’s actions on this issue are reprehensible. A 12-second delay is nothing, and given the reason, there would be no complaints. The TTC has lost its perspective in bureaucracy and is using expedience and expense to delay, assuming the issue is a flash in a pan that will disappear. Well, it won’t go away. Where is the strong TTC administrator prepared to do what is right — to stand up and take action by putting in a temporary bus stop at the front door of Variety Village now and debate a permanent stop at a later time. Of course, bureaucratic fear prevents immediate action. The TTC continues to hit those who are emotionally and physically challenged. Somebody needs to put on a heavy pair of boots and start kicking butt at the TTC.

Stewart Glassford Newmarket

(Why make any stops at all? That would eliminate all delays)

Shocking arrogance
Re “A kick in the teeth” (Dec. 16): Way to go Mike Strobel, for an excellent column about the Variety Village bus stop madness. The sheer arrogance and lack of compassion shown by TTC brass is shocking, yet not completely unexpected. Perhaps the much-needed stop would have been implemented promptly if someone in TTC administration had a disabled child.

Mark Chisholm Aurora

(Doubt it. Strobel rightly describes them as “heartless”)

Twelve seconds?
So, no bus stop at Variety Village because it would add 12 seconds to the trip (“A kick in the teeth” Mike Strobel, Dec. 16). I wonder how long it takes to install and remove a bike from the bike racks on the front of the bus, that is if anybody ever uses those things? I guess the TTC is only “essential” to some.

Ellery Hollingsworth Scarborough

(How come everyone except TTC brass seem to understand the right thing to do?)

PLEASE Anyone But...

...Wychwood Barn/St. Clair Right-Of-Way Mihevic!

Who will be the next TTC chair?


Thu Oct 28 2010

A look at possible candidates for the high-profile job of TTC chair. (2)

Hoping He Can Swing Some Union Votes To Pantalooney...

Comrade Miller

Miller set to endorse Pantalone for mayor: reports


Reports say that outgoing Mayor David Miller will announce Wednesday he is backing Coun. Joe Pantalone to be his successor as the city's top politician

Miller to endorse Pantalone

By DON PEAT, Toronto Sun

Mayor David Miller is about to pull his Pants up.

...after 4 years of leftist ass kissing many councilors are praying for the election of Depends Snivleman.

Mihevc calls for strategic vote to beat Ford


Councillor Joe Mihevc is turning his back on Joe Pantalone, instead endorsing George Smitherman for mayor. (7)

Pantalone shocked by Mihevc's 'incomprehensible' decision to support Smitherman

...Pants has to appreciate that Mihevic's decision might have to do with Pant's height. Mihevics decision imight be  based on the fact he doesn't want to expend additional energy to bend over further to kiss butt than he has been doing over the past four years.

Mihevic preparing to campaign for Depends Snivelman...

He Should Put Wychwood Barns On His List

How St. Clair fuels Rob Ford: Granatstein

By ROB GRANATSTEIN, TORONTO SUN

Rob Ford is in the midst of teaching the TTC, city bureaucrats and Joe Mihevc a harsh lesson about screwing up.

Mihevic's Reality Show...

Toronto's field of dreams, er, weeds

By DON PEAT, Toronto Sun

Last Updated: June 17, 2010 6:56pm

Toronto Councillor Cesar Palacio upset that entrance to the Joseph J. Piccininni Centre on St. Clair Ave. W. has become a "field of weeds" since the streetcar right of way construction began. (DON PEAT/Toronto Sun)

Councillor Cesar Palacio calls it the Field of Weeds.
The Davenport councillor met with City of Toronto officials Thursday for a walk along the St. Clair Ave. streetcar right-of-way to point out deficiencies in the multi-million-dollar project.
While the right-of-way was originally supposed to cost $48 million, the cost has soared past $100 million.
“And this is what we have to show for St. Clair,” Palacio told the Sun Thursday as he pointed to dead trees in the new sidewalk and around the new streetcar stops.
But it’s not just the dead trees scattered along the right-of-way from the St. Clare Catholic Church near St. Clair Ave. W. and Westmount Ave. to the Joseph J. Piccininni Centre further west along the street near Caledonia Rd.
Palacio wants the city’s technical services department to return the area outside the community centre back to the manicured gardens that were there before the construction.
“The public was promised all of this,” he said. “It’s a total disservice to the community...this is supposed to be the jewel of the crown in our community.”
Palacio said the community should look like it is “once again open for business” but that’s not the message residents get when they see overgrown and unweeded gardens outside the community centre.
“People are upset and angry, and rightfully so,” he said. “At this point there is no way to be accountable, that’s my frustration.”
Steve Adams, manager of TTC and special projects for the city’s Technical Services Department, did not return an interview request Thursday.

A Photo Op For Mihevic But...

...his real persona is reflected in the cost overruns of the St. Clair TTC debacle, Wychwood Barns project, etc. The $$$ wasted would feed a multitude of people.

Do the Math about eating on welfare

Toronto Councillor Joe Mihevc’s 11-year-old daughter Catherine looks at her family’s food bank ration of tinned salmon, dried chick peas and peanut butter and wonders what her friends will think when they come to her house for lunch this week. 7 April 05:47 ⁽¹⁾

^{... an example of Toronto Council priorities; working people are going hungry BUT:}

Budget chief wants revenue from new billboard tax to support the arts

How to spend the money generated by the new tax has been a political hot potato for months 4:05 AM EDT 

Poverty stalks the nation's big cities

by Carol Goar

TTC Will Be Calling In Grief Councilors....

...not only for the TTC employees but for the taxpayers who were also T -boned. You have to wonder if the incident is an example of the consequences of people turning left>

Driver critical after vehicle hit by streetcar

By CHRIS DOUCETTE,Toronto Sun

A man in his 30s was fighting for his life after being T-boned by a streetcar on a newly constructed and highly controversial St. Clair West section of road in the city's west end.