This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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While Toronto suffered from one of its worst flooding since decades, Mayor Rob Ford was scheduled to turn up for work on Wednesday amid the ongoing and seemingly endless crack video scandal. There was a circus of media reporters surrounding City Hall as it awaited the arrival of Mayor on Wednesday while the alleged crack video scandal continued to hamper the work of the council.
The Don Valley Parkway was kept closed during the morning rush-hour commute due to flooding, and it was reopened by the time Ford turned up for work at City Hall on Wednesday. While Ford majorly avoided the media on the way to his office at noon, he did replied “fine” when inquired “how is this all going to end?” The mayor is anticipated to hold a press conference on the flooding at 3:30 p.m.
The chair of the city’s public works and infrastructure committee, Denzil Minnan-Wong, has already confirmed that more than 50 to 60 millimetres of rain were dumped on the city in the time of one an hour alone before Wednesday morning. Reports allege that by the time Ford arrived in office, the city had already received almost 200 calls inquiring about the storm, majority of which complained about basement flooding. Minnan-Wong was seen in the mayor’s office receiving a briefing on the flooding, without the mayor, before he came out to address media reporters. He stated that “my understanding is he is going to be briefed but you’d have to talk to the mayor’s staff about that.”
Why bother briefing the Mayor? He obviously knows the source of this flooding – streetcars and bicycles. Time to do away with more bike lands to prevent future flooding. And it’s about time we got those streetcars off the Don Valley Parkway. Enough is enough.