Regarding "New speed bumps way too high", the Toronto Star is once again wrong. Their stated 500 millimeter maximum height for speed bumps would be almost 20 inches.

The Globe story on street furniture had a footnote about the debate on Councillor Ford's and Councillor Holyday's office budgets. It included this quote from Holyday about Councillor Mammoliti's $7,500 expense claim for mileage:

"I calculated that, even at 50 cents a kilometre, that's over 15,000 kilometres," Mr. Holyday told councillors. "That's more than I drive my car in a whole year."

Clearly Holyday is bringing this up to deflect attention from his unaccountable and rule breaking spending practices but it's still a statement that should pique the interest of his Council colleagues.

15,000 kilometers is essentially the equivelant of driving From Toronto to Los Angeles, back to Toronto and once more to LA. So unless Mammoliti is having meetings with his constituents in his car for a couple hours each day, I'd like to know how he racks up that kind of mileage.

And if the councillor does, in fact, put so many kilometers on his car, that brings up a whole other environment-related issue.

These are office expenses that Holyday is referring to, so perhaps the 15000 km are for multiple vehicles that Mammoliti and his staff drive.

That doesn't explain why his staff drive that much, but it does make the statistic more plausible.