Say what you will about Mayor-elect of Toronto, Rob Ford (He is obese. He has Hulk Hogan coloured hair. He has a scrunched up pig face. He has more chins than metropolitan wards. He is loud. He lacks insight. He is from Etobicoke–a wasteland of stripmalls, industrial plazas, high rise apartments, Humber College, fireworks stores, general unhappiness, multiculturalism, 3 hours of sunlight a day, oh and an IKEA. He is racially insensitive. He is homophobic. He is bad with numbers [$6-million for bike lanes on Jarvis, anyone?]. He believes the homeless can be ignored out of existence. He has to get his suits custom made in hangars by a team of "Oriental people" who "work like dogs." Yes, he has his suits made by Asian dogs. He is an "average Joe." In this case, "average Joe" refers to a fat, loud, homophobic, mathematically ignorant man-bear-pig who panders to residents of the inner-suburbs with an ill-constructed catchphrase that implies a commitment to tax-cuts.), but his commitment to a gravy train stop at City Hall is commendable.
Although green-conscious, bike-riding, Tom's-wearing downtown residents may fear the change of power at City Hall as marking a reversion to the pre-Miller days when cyclists were like game for cars on the prowl and green roofs were simply grow-ops on the third floor of Parkdale row houses, Rob Ford has articulated (though with poor, saliva-spewing enunciation and a lot of heavy breathing) a belief in alternate, sustainable energy sources. I hope he maintains his election platform that promises a gravy train stop at City Hall. I am not sure if it connects to his Etobicoke enclave, but rest assured that before his four years in office are up, Rob Ford will have an eco-friendly gravy train stop in each of the major hubs of our fair megacity (pending he doesn't chug the supply of succulent gravy fuel).
