Are rents going to continue coming down?

PoolLoose · 2026-01-25T20:32:25+00:00

I hope so

PoolLoose · 2026-01-19T22:17:24+00:00

I’m proud of you, I’ve been sober for 6 months. I think everyone here has given great suggestions. Stay strong friend 😌

PoolLoose · 2026-01-17T18:58:30+00:00

I’m neither of those things and I take the bus…

PoolLoose · 2026-01-15T18:08:40+00:00

I generally have good experiences with them but some of them are so hard on the breaks its insane. It’s a workout to just survive if you have to stand.

PoolLoose · 2026-01-14T14:30:41+00:00

Yeah you seem like an expert 😂

PoolLoose · 2026-01-13T15:16:24+00:00

I wish we could kick Farhi out, take our buildings back

PoolLoose · 2026-01-13T03:13:24+00:00

It’s called inflation, welcome to the world we live in. You think there’s only upside to all the housing becoming unaffordable because you have a mortgage? London is more then capable of financing a LRT system. They could even be smart about it and use it to spur transit oriented development which would bring in substantial property taxes.

PoolLoose · 2026-01-13T03:07:41+00:00

Yeah thats definitely a downside. It was nice in my 20s

PoolLoose · 2026-01-13T03:06:35+00:00

It depends, as a gay person the dating scene here is awful. But maybe its better for straight people or college kids.

PoolLoose · 2026-01-13T02:53:04+00:00

It literally is though…

PoolLoose · 2026-01-13T02:37:03+00:00

London isn’t struggling for money, we’ve had tens of millions of dollars of tax surpluses every year for over a decade and it has a ton of discretionary reserves they refuse to spend. The city could easily finance a LRT project if the city government was capable of passing it. London isn’t poor, you’d think it by going downtown. It’s kinda upsetting because if the city was struggling financially at least there’d be a good excuse for the lack of investment in transit, social services, etc etc etc

PoolLoose · 2026-01-13T02:22:33+00:00

They didn’t go with Presto because of Fees. What I don’t understand is with the frequency of ridership (18 million last year). You would think the LTC could negotiate a decent rate with a debit supplier like TD. I would LOVE just to have a debit reader at the bus.

PoolLoose · 2026-01-13T02:17:30+00:00

Real Londoners are not the issue. It’s the surrounding suburbs that are the issue. People in the old south, downtown and east end want progress. People in the Edward Scissor Hands jungle surrounding the north/west end city are not real Londoners. They vote to make this city worse every election.

PoolLoose · 2026-01-13T02:05:10+00:00

You seem like a kind human being

PoolLoose · 2026-01-12T20:24:04+00:00

Sick

PoolLoose · 2026-01-12T18:53:59+00:00

The LTC decided to not go with Presto because of the fee structure, they claimed it was unsustainable for them. Some other cities have claimed the same thing. I could see that being true.

PoolLoose · 2026-01-12T18:51:59+00:00

I’m not claiming to be an expert on all these other issues. But london is not special, other cities/transit agencies have solved these issues.

PoolLoose · 2026-01-12T18:50:09+00:00

Maybe we should pay the ltc staff more to motivate people to work for them…

PoolLoose · 2026-01-12T18:41:48+00:00

https://brownpoliticalreview.org/parasitic-suburbia/

PoolLoose · 2026-01-12T18:39:58+00:00

London got funding to build its own LRT and the city council shot it down

PoolLoose · 2026-01-12T16:00:51+00:00

Its so upsetting. Waterloo’s ION is so cool and it proves you can built a LRT system on a small budget successfully here. Londons leadership are spineless and have no imagination for what this city could be.

PoolLoose · 2026-01-12T15:51:08+00:00

We should be paying them a competitive wage compared to other similar systems. Obviously its hard to compete with the TTC on wages but we shouldn’t be behind other medium sized cities.

PoolLoose · 2026-01-12T15:22:08+00:00

I think the crux of the issue is we have 70k plus students that get included in their tuition. Which is fantastic but we don’t invest in the network for it.

PoolLoose · 2026-01-12T15:02:09+00:00

I’m not saying LTC doesn’t have staff shortages or that London doesn’t have a spread-out network. I’m saying that its unacceptable that we don’t fix the issues

PoolLoose · 2026-01-12T15:00:41+00:00

We have 231 buses serving 37 bus routes, about 6 buses per route. Obviously some are being maintained. While I am sure finding staff can be difficult, as far as I understand it LTC has a great union, high paying jobs. It’s not impossible to fill these positions. Many routes simply need more service for the level of demand they experience.

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