QUOTED: Rob Ford, on a proposal to make Bloor Street pedestrian-only on four summer Sundays

By Steve Kupferman | April 9, 2014

By Steve Kupferman | 04/09/2014

“I can’t support that. We have to have traffic flowing in the city. People want to do their yoga, we have tons of parks. Or whatever the purpose was of closing the streets.”

–Rob Ford, telling reporters his thoughts on Open Streets TO, an initiative to convince city council to close an 10-kilometre stretch of Bloor Street (as well as part of downtown Yonge) on four consecutive Sundays for a massive, free-form street festival. In these types of situations, Ford always comes down on the side of auto traffic (see: “it’s their own fault at the end of the day”), so his total dismissiveness isn’t surprising, but in this case he isn’t the only one confused about the purpose of the closure. The whole idea is kind of high-concept.

12 thoughts on “QUOTED: Rob Ford, on a proposal to make Bloor Street pedestrian-only on four summer Sundays”

But seriously, is there a swine gene in the guy, I look at him and can’t help but seeing a big fat pig.
I read that pigs have the intelligence of a 3 year old, another thing in common between swines and fords.

Dear Steve Kupferman, how is this high-“concept”? This has be done in many different cities around the world including New York City and Paris. This is beyond concept and is now reality for forward thinking cities. Please see
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/summerstreets/html/home/home.shtml
and
http://www.pps.org/great_public_spaces/one?public_place_id=997

“Or whatever the purpose was of closing the streets.”

oh god…this guy needs to go.

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