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time for our annual hobbling of the city's transit

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2019.03.28

Toronto has a long-standing tradition of making plans to do something about its crippled transit system, then scrapping those plans. Each government despises the previous government's plans, and each level of government despises the others. It's a grand old game. Meanwhile, pedestrians and cyclists tend to die at an average rate of about one per week.

Three reasons to be thankful:

  1. The kids seem to be turning into great people.
  2. Mari's cautiously making money as a currency trader.
  3. We've rounded a corner in the massive project to build a new product in my day job.

rand()m quote

I feel fortunate that I enjoyed the blandishments of modernity. I had hip replacement and root canal. I was able to travel on airplanes. I was able to take cheap food for granted. I went to the movies. I enjoyed rock 'n' roll. And now I'm ready to move on.

—James Howard Kunstler