Toronto Alles Uber: Being Progressive in the Age of Progressive Conservative Urbanism
Toronto Alles Uber: Being Progressive in the Age of Progressive Conservative Urbanism
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多伦多 Alles Uber:在进步保守的城市主义时代保持进步
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2017
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R. Keil
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R. Keil
Introduction: Tory Rides the Subway A sweaty Toronto Mayor John Tory emerged from a Kipling subway station in the west end of the Ontario city in the morning of September 7, 2016 to declare that the ride that he had taken along the entire Line 2 subway was “uncomfortably hot”. He had experienced, first hand, what thousands of commuters had to endure through the scorching summer of 2016: The Toronto Transit Commission was failing to maintain a state of good repair of the air conditioning units of some of its subway cars while the city was involved in extensive plans, many of them on the mayor’s behalf and insistence, to expand the sorely underperforming rapid rail and bus system in the metropolitan area. Tory’s mayoral campaign and reign had previously been focused less on fixing existing problems and had talked about a wholesale revamping of