Toronto Delivers

Have you been to the Amsterdam bridge at the Harbourfront? You may have but not sure what it was as its not clearly labeled. It's this picture. This is not yet world class and need to upgrade something. Why? Not the bridge but because of what it represents. It represents that its a sister city with Amsterdam. There is actually a Toronto bridge called Torontobrug in Amsterdam. Other sister cities of Toronto are on this other picture. What I like about sister cities is not just tourism trade but also other benefits. What I don't like about it here in Toronto is that its not leveraged as much as they would have done in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin. There should be big signs, shared resources, street parties and such. Why do we not have as much of that here? See the Toronto bridge in Amsterdam? It's huge! And don't tell me its expensive because there's a lot of things that can be done without costing much money. And the people of each of the cities would benefit quite a lot from it so in the end, there's actually more money coming to the city if they do a better job at promoting these cities. It not for this site, the Toronto Government site and Wikipedia, where else would you know about the sister cities? ~ richard

Photo by Claudia Hung