An Innovation in Toronto's Transportation Infrastructure

If I could serve as the mayor I would overhaul Toronto's public transit completely. Instead of buses, light rail, and subways, I would set up several hundred really big slingshots around the city. It would cost the city significantly less money to maintain and operate as users could pull back the sling by themselves and a mechanism could be used to give them the freedom to fire. Maybe I'll call this invention a button. Anyways rather than having a several billion dollar Eglinton line, we could have a much cheaper network of stations where people launch themselves into the troposphere. After the initial installation no attendants would be needed and engineers would just need to come and repair broken parts when problems show (sucks to be the dude who found out it was broken the hard way).

Anyways, the slingshots would have the capacity to fire users up to 5000 meters into the air. People would need to bring oxygen canisters and wingsuits with them when using my system. They won't die at that height since some Indian dude went like 7000 meters and came out fine, and it is too low for large commercial planes to be a problem. I did some research and I found out that the glide ratio on a good wingsuit is about 2.5, which means that at maximum one could travel 12.5 km (assuming the land is flat) with one single launch. Of course for longer trips you could glide to another station and relaunch. I will probably space each slingshot out 5 km from eachother which means at most everyone should be about 3 and a half kilometres from their nearest station at most, which shouldn't be too bad.

Traffic congestion would be diminished in great amounts on the roads since people would just fly to work or school like a bunch of badasses. Our image to the rest of Canada will definitely improve when they see how safe our system is since the number of car related accidents will plummet.

If two people were to collide in mid-air during a glide, then my next innovation will come in handy. Everyone will be outfitted with an Iron Man suit so that they can glide on without trouble. Now don't say that we should just use the Iron Man suits instead, because jet fuel costs a fortune, and that would be silly. A cheaper alternative would be to lather everyone up in butter so that they slide off of each other.

My final point would be that those who are unhappy with their lives could use these as suicide booths a la Futurama, which would save us some high school shootings, and guarantee us a spot in newspapers around the world for offering such a convenience.