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Re:Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for ... by thepasswordis on Saturday March 13, 2021 @11:25AM (#26447582)
Are there any cities where the citizens don’t think the city council, government, etc is all “incompetent”?

Like what is a city which is well functioning, where the citizens like the government?

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Re:Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for ... by chubot on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:15PM (#26448597)
That was my reaction on reading the parent comment too. However then I remembered that the mayor of Toronto was Rob Ford a few years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Rob_Ford_video_sca...

Boundaries have moved in recent years, but I think this behavior is still outside of normal for politicians.

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Re:Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for ... by frosted-flakes on Saturday March 13, 2021 @12:27PM (#26448103)
Some cities do have good governments and high popularity ratings, to the point where politicians get fairly re-elected for decades straight. Mississauga (part of the GTA) is apparently one of them, because Hazel Mccallion served as mayor for 36 years straight and only stopped because she was 93. I'm not exactly sure why she was so popular (I'm not from there), but her endorsement is still mayor 6 years later, so they must be doing something right.
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Re:Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for ... by PoignardAzur on Saturday March 13, 2021 @12:48PM (#26448279)
The mayor of Paris (Anne Hidalgo) is relatively popular and respected by even her detractors.

(not many members of the Socialist Party you can say that about these days)

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