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'Huge issue': Councillors pitch city-wide 40 km/h pilot project

Great, reduce the speeds, frustrate drivers and taxpayers, spend more on signage, so we can give even more on the OPP budget that is already far too high. 🙄 This is a waste of time and resources.

- Derick.Lehmann

'Huge issue': Councillors pitch city-wide 40 km/h pilot project

Makes sense much sense. Should have done this in the first place…

- SSaddie

'Huge issue': Councillors pitch city-wide 40 km/h pilot project

No! It's ridiculous to treat every road situation the same. University avenue is already set too low at 50, for a five-lane road with set-back sidewalks. And good luck keeping the buses on schedule, since they too will be slowed down.

- Wylder

'Huge issue': Councillors pitch city-wide 40 km/h pilot project

The problem really isn't the 50kph limit, the problem is people doing 60 and over in 50 zones. Unfortunately Doug Ford is in favour of speeding and has taken the most effective solution off the table.

- Richard Mount

Survivors cheer as former HRC buildings come down (6 photos)

I don't support this. As much as this may bring bad memories to former residents and staff members, those buildings were historic. In addition, if the plan is to make a museum, one of the buildings could have been used for that purpose.

- smalltownguy2017

Survivors cheer as former HRC buildings come down (6 photos)

This mass demolition of historic buildings is so wrong on so many levels! Were the anti-Champlain monument folks also involved with this? Stinks the same. KEEP THE MAIN BUILDING INTACT! Learn from our collective mistakes and educate all. Oh, I know, let's get MPP Dunlop to champion for the protection of this historic site! Throw in a photo op for guaranteed success.

- David Hawke

Taxpayers group slams Ontario MPPs 'loathsome' new pay raise

Their pay raises should be tied to the inflation rate.

- Dennis Woodman

Taxpayers group slams Ontario MPPs 'loathsome' new pay raise

And they should have to account for the hours they "work". And show tangible accomplishments.

- Onlooker

'Huge issue': Councillors pitch city-wide 40 km/h pilot project

I live on a locally designated road near downtown and have seen a dramatic increase in speed and volume. Traffic calming is about reducing speeds and short cutting on local and collector roads. Reduced limits is an inexpensive and effective measure. You could keep the higher limits on the arterial routes.

- Downtown Core

Taxpayers group slams Ontario MPPs 'loathsome' new pay raise

I agree with Dennis W.Tie the increase to inflation.The wages in the government sector have got out of control.

- Curious 1

'Huge issue': Councillors pitch city-wide 40 km/h pilot project

If this is only to reduce the damage to pedestrians when they are hit, what are the odds of their being hit? As others have said, there is the frustration of drivers to contend with and excess expense of her signage. How often will speeding be enforced - thus bringing a hoped for windfall of money to the city,? A lot more constables will have to be hired to have an effect on speeding. Other than a perception of more safety, will it actually have an effect?

- Holly Levinter

'Huge issue': Councillors pitch city-wide 40 km/h pilot project

Have these 2 councillors got nothing better to do…they are like a broken record.

- WhoWhatWhy

Survivors cheer as former HRC buildings come down (6 photos)

I didn't even know there was a plan to knock them all down.

- Onlooker

Survivors cheer as former HRC buildings come down (6 photos)

these buildings looked in "livable" shape.....Why couldn't they house the houseless.

- Krysa

Survivors cheer as former HRC buildings come down (6 photos)

The comments on the board so far are bewildering. Historical buildings, perhaps. But ones that 1) caused pain to a lot of people who were held there against their will & 2) the majority of which had not been properly maintained & were in disrepair. Are we supposed to waste money fixing them to make them habitable for the homeless, especially with all the baggage they hold? This is the smart move, knock them down & repurpose the land using modern building techniques, whatever the buildings do."Erasing history does not make it disappear." What a grandiose statement for something so obvious. If it brings closure to former residents to not have to look at them & spending taxpayer money to keep them standing, why not? The history will still exist in the cemetery across the street.

- Danny Galea

Taxpayers group slams Ontario MPPs 'loathsome' new pay raise

Minimum wage has nothing to do with a huge increase in politicians' salaries. MPPs should be required to document their hours of work, time in the legislature and accomplishments. But most important of all is the timing and perception of this raise on top of their huge raise last year. To the hardworking, debt ridden constituents this is an outrage.. Ford says he has a heart and concern for Ontarians yet he is the most extravagant premier Ontario has even had, throwing our money away on pet projects, wild dreams of a legacy, feeding his supporters while ignoring the importance of his honest duty. Further the fears of his actions led him to change the FOI rules.

- Holly Levinter

Taxpayers group slams Ontario MPPs 'loathsome' new pay raise

Overpaid to attend 90th birthdays and cut ribbons.

- Paul Bell

Council green-lights oversized stop signs at downtown intersection

"This behaviour represents an issue that is more effectively addressed through enforcement, rather than an engineering solution," wrote McIsaac to Tomkins.Typical dismissive rubbish from McIsaac. We DON'T HAVE traffic enforcement in Orillia - it's far too expensive to put cops at the side of the road - and McIsaac knows it.An engineered solution makes a lot more sense in many ways. If you solve the problem you don't need the enforcement and everybody is happy. I'll bet that the new stop signs cost less than a couple of hours of OPP time. So why is McIsaac fighting it?

- Onlooker

Survivors cheer as former HRC buildings come down (6 photos)

Wow. Listen to the people affected. Why are they historic? What part of it do we want to celebrate? Maybe because i have "only" been in Orillia for 20 years...but i see them as historically odious. Why do we need 40+ deteriorating buildings to remind us that its not okay to displace and abuse people?

- no laughing matter

Survivors cheer as former HRC buildings come down (6 photos)

For those of you who would like to keep these buildings ask yourself if you'd want to see them constantly if you had been abused in one of them. I'm thinking NO. Big talk from people who will never understand.

- Penny Kerr