{"id":126,"date":"2017-04-27T15:56:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T19:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulainslie.com\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2017-04-27T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T19:56:12","slug":"infrastructure-in-the-city-of-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/27\/infrastructure-in-the-city-of-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure in the City of Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blog Post: Infrastructure in the City of Toronto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Residents of Ward 43,<\/p>\n<p>What are Toronto&#8217;s two season?<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nWinter and infrastructure renewal.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto is indeed a city with all four season however lately we&#8217;ve been receiving a lot of winter weather. Does fall and spring even exist?<\/p>\n<p>The season of summer is often associated with summer break if you&#8217;re a student or teacher. However to those who work full-time all year round we know that the warm cloudless summer season is perfect construction weather or infrastructure renewal weather.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, yes I know that traffic delays and detours are a pain to sit through or reroute but consider the positive long-term outcome. Some of Toronto&#8217;s watermains are over 100 years old and majority of the roads were built in the 1950&#8217;s and 1960&#8217;s. It may just be about time to get our watermains improved and our roads resurfaced.<\/p>\n<p>Think about the amount of pot holes there are on our city roads, how many of them have been fixed or still need fixing?<\/p>\n<p>The City is prepared to spend over half a billion dollars each year to fix and maintain our watermains and roads. For 2017 the City is investing $700 million to improve core infrastructures. Of this, $310 million will be used on roads, expressways and bridges, another $310 million to be used on sewers and watermains and $70 million on basement flooding protection.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Toronto will be co-ordinating road closures to speed up road work for the upcoming construction season 2017. Check out the city&#8217;s web-based map to help motorist plan their way around the city, http:\/\/bit.ly\/1JdJbEu<\/p>\n<p>Let us all accept the extra commute time for the betterment of our City and its ageing infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>All my Best,<\/p>\n<p>Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog Post: Infrastructure in the City of Toronto Dear Residents of Ward 43, What are Toronto&#8217;s two season? . . . Winter and infrastructure renewal. Toronto is indeed a city with all four season however lately we&#8217;ve been receiving a lot of winter weather. Does fall and spring even exist? The season of summer is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/27\/infrastructure-in-the-city-of-toronto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Infrastructure in the City of Toronto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulainslie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}