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“All the roads have potholes,” he said before the vote Thursday. “We have issues with all our expressways. There’s no panic. There’s no rush to tear this down. There’s no rush to put a hybrid on it.”

Asked if he was okay with the prospect of concrete falling off the Gardiner, Ford responded: “I’m not an engineer, but I can guarantee one thing, these chunks are going to continue to fall. Like any major highway, with the density we have, like the westbound, what are going to do there? And eastbound, a chunk comes off there. And how about the Don Valley, going right up? That’s going to have huge potholes and chunks coming off.”

Ford also took several shots at his successor, Mayor John Tory. The two faced off in a chaotic mayoral campaign last year. But Ford was forced to drop out before the election when he was diagnosed with cancer.

“He’s all over the place,” Ford said about Tory. “To be quite frank, you can’t respect the mayor. He’s flip flopping constantly. On carding. On the TTC. Even if you oppose them, you can’t respect that. He’s going to start losing votes quickly, anyone can see that.”

Ford, who refused to speak to police last year when he was being investigated in relation to a video of him smoking crack, said he personally supports carding, the controversial police practice of stopping people not under investigation and recording their information.