A reader comments on an accident at Moore and Bayview Aves. Thursday morning. He saw it on his way to work and says a pedestrian was flat out on the road apparently having been hit by an SUV turning right onto Bayview off of westbound Moore. We all hope he’s okay and there is an inquiry in to PC Clint Stibbe. The reader says he regularly sees motorists turn south out of the middle lane “because they think they’re more important those those who wait in the turn lane…and (I) wouldn’t be surprised if one of these clowns ran the poor man over.” He comments on the recent death of Georgia Walsh and whether there is a plan in the works to get traffic off of the Leaside streets onto the as-yet unbuilt Leslie extension. He says “Tying ribbons on trees is a nice gesture, but something beneficial could (and) should be done about the core issues.”
The “as-yet unbuilt” Leslie extension should more accurately be described as the “forever to remain unbuilt” Leslie extension.
Putting aside that there will never be the collective political will to build it, consider just the logistics — you’ve either got to extend Leslie through E.T.Seton park (to where exactly? Don Mills Road?) or else it has to climb back out of the ravine at Leslie and Vanderhoof, and then continue to where exactly? Oh, yes, I recall — alongside the CP line to Millwood, along Redway, through Crother’s Woods, and then connecting to the Bayview extension.
It. Will. Never. Happen.
In 21st century Toronto, billions and billions of tax dollars will never go to building more expressways, but to transit instead.
Pampered and entitled car drivers may not like it, but that is the reality.
Sincerely,
A loyal Bulldog reader