Joe Mihevc thinks a magic report would get everyone to shut up about the St. Clair right-of-way

Joe Mihevc is tired of people talking smack about his neighbourhood, and he wants the TTC to commission a study of the avenue’s right-of-way to shut them up. While the streetcar project’s boosters believe it spurred development, with condos and fancy restaurants now popping up on the strip, Rob Ford and his allies see the right-of-way as an expensive, traffic-snarling nightmare (they’ve made “St. Clair–ize” a verb to describing the horrors that befall neighbourhoods with above-ground transit). Mihevc insists the public relations exercise study would solve the area’s identity crisis once and for all. Except, probably not: putting together a new report, Councillor Josh Colle points out, would likely just drag out the entire debate for yet another few months. Read the entire story [National Post] »