{"id":3986,"date":"2010-06-04T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T13:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2010-06-04T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T13:38:08","slug":"toronto-finally-accepts-dvp-dual-name-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/toronto-finally-accepts-dvp-dual-name-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto finally accepts DVP &#8220;dual name&#8221; proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that this proposal was finished when the current Toronto city government turned it down a few years back, but according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/Toronto+to+rebrand+highway+in+honour+of+fallen+soldiers\/3109122\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article by Adrian Humphreys<\/a>, the Don Valley Parkway will also be known as the \u201cRoute of Heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a sweeping gesture to honour veterans and fallen soldiers, the city of Toronto is designating the Don Valley Parkway &mdash; where the flag-draped caskets of all soldiers killed in Afghanistan travel when returning to Canada &mdash; as the \u201cRoute of Heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The city-owned, six-lane expressway will be dotted with prominent signs featuring the ceremonial name, other signs reading \u201cLest We Forget,\u201d and pictures on exit ramps of the red poppy [. . .] <\/p>\n<p>The move comes three years after Mayor David Miller rebuffed veterans who asked to rename the DVP. The new plan, supported by the Mayor, keeps the DVP designation in a \u201cdual name\u201d system.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremonial change is similar to the provincial designation of \u201cHighway of Heroes\u201d to the portion of Highway 401 stretching from the military base in Trenton to the top of the DVP.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the strident portion of Toronto&#8217;s political class who are against the mission in Afghanistan in particular, and the military in general, I&#8217;m surprised and pleased that this gesture is being made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that this proposal was finished when the current Toronto city government turned it down a few years back, but according to this article by Adrian Humphreys, the Don Valley Parkway will also be known as the \u201cRoute of Heroes.\u201d In a sweeping gesture to honour veterans and fallen soldiers, the city of Toronto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[218,31,87,207],"class_list":["post-3986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-military","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-ontario","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-12i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions\/3988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}