This freakin city has spent the past four decades catering to the almighty automobile, and this is the completely predictable result. It’s openly hostile to people who don’t drive - the people running Mississauga couldn’t give two shits about pedestrian, transit, or cycling infrastructure since they’re not the ones who are ever in danger of being splattered across some idiot’s windshield.

I worked near Hurontario and Derry for six years and every day, crossing the street to get to my office was like playing Frogger with jackasses who felt like waiting five seconds for me to cross the street was an intolerable inconvenience. It got to the point where I used to record video while crossing the street in case some fucko decided to run me down, which nearly happened on multiple occasions. I complained to the city several times and asked if they could put a crosswalk and pedestrian signal there, and all they did was send someone out there at the least-busy time for two hours to “observe” the traffic patterns and come back to tell me there wasn’t enough traffic to justify a signal or even a painted crosswalk, but they DID say they’d put up an extra stop sign. Gee thanks, my tax dollars are sure hard at work there.

I came to Canada 13 years ago, and while I make more money here than I ever did in the States, it’ll still never be enough to buy a place. Honestly though, the idea of owning a house and being responsible for its maintenance and upkeep is utterly repellent to me. I’d rather rent forever and have all that nonsense be someone else’s problem. I ain’t got the time or patience for it.

“My” MPP is one of Dougie’s Trained Clapping Seals and writing her a stern letter won’t do jack shit.

I had a feeling something like this was going on and I’m sure it’s happening everywhere. Friggin greedy people.