It was down by the waterfront that Doug Ford had a Ford Notion. Surveying the Port Lands, still a bleak sight despite years of diligent toil to renew them, the mayor’s older brother, right-hand man, and occasional mouthpiece decided that neighbourhood-building was taking too long, and the time had come to do something different instead. Something fun…

Transit City is dead. Years of work, and at least $49 million in local consultations, environmental assessments, engineering work and broken contracts have gone down the drain. But is the result all bad? Heresy alert: Maybe not.