Morning Brew: October 6th, 2008

As I said in a post on a different article, Nuit Blanche organizers need to stop relying on the TTC for the event. They'll never get the service they need from them. The 'zones' need to be closer together like they were in the first year of the event. It will be a lot more people in a smaller area, but with road closures in appropriate locations the crowds won't be forced onto narrow sidewalks like they were Saturday night.

Neighbourhoods like Liberty Village (and perhaps in the future, the Beaches) should hold their own small-scale event, but be kept separate from the main 3 zones. This way everyone doesn't think they -need- to head to the other areas during the night.

OR. Better yet, expand the event so each of the areas have enough to do that there is no need to head to the other zones. Pick a zone and stay there the rest of the night.

road closures are a must for an event where a million people are wandering the streets at midnight. If you close the roads you can have more exhibits in a smaller area and not have people travelling from roncesvalles to bloor/yonge. Do that and I'll have very little to complain about.

Also, more free champagne.

I found an unlisted place in Yorkville giving out free apples, water and pizza. A school of some kind. I'm not really sure, I was distracted by the free food.

Ry-Tron: road closures and a smaller overall area would be great. The amount of traffic was quite obscene. If they had one road closed for people to walk between major installations it would be fantastic.

SO who cut the brake lines? Green, NDP, Conservative?
MY bet is on the Bloc.

I'm guessing the Libertarian Party of Canada

@Danielle

My guess is that it's a collective of immoral *supporters* of a competing party (not the BLOC, and not an endorse action of any party).

Liberals were targetted in Guelph this summer as well.

Is it the same person / people who vandalised the fireman's memorial?

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20081003/memorial_fund_081003/20081003/?hub=TorontoNewHome

Photo of the firefighter's memorial. Very different style of graffiti.

Oh god, they really need to make more areas (more then Liberty Village) pedestrian/bike only for Nuit Blanche.

The already dangerous Queen St. was madness if you were on a bicycle, so we moved to side streets, but not before having stupid drunk people put themselves in our way (sometimes purposefully) enough times to almost have a serious accident.

And that accident is just freaking horrible.

I live right around the corner from a few of the Roncesvalles people whose brake lines were severed.

My rented garage now has a very elegantly painted "L" on the garage door (the landlord has a Liberal sign on the front lawn). Whoever this person is, he/she has nice handwriting.

Nuit Blanche is best on a bicycle! Do not rely on the TTC.

Even though the graffiti looks different, I think that it may be the same person / people, due to the non sequitur anti-McGuinty comments

Ratpick: I noticed that too! "McGuinty Lies" was done in a very delightful cursive. Cute, almost.

These incidents of brake cutting are disgusting, especially in a neighbourhood like Parkdale. Who cares about Politics, just the act of brazen cowardness is disturbing.

Before it used to just be the comforting sounds of crackheads and hookers minding their own business, but ever since the Hipsters moved in the hood has turned to shit with their polictics and their general hipsterness.

This kind of stuff would never happened when Gangsters used to rule the streets.

This is the kind of thing I expect in Davenport, not Parkdale or St. Paul's.