dowlingm
Senior Member
At a cost of 7 million bucks, I believe. 650 or so Sugar Beach umbrellas.
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TTC: McNicoll Bus Garage (Approved)
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W. K. Lis
Superstar
Delaying the McNicoll Bus Garage means delays in getting additional buses. Causing more delays for transit users. Causing more crowding on current buses. All to save a few pennies.
rbt
Senior Member
It's not even saved pennies. The cost of construction by deferring will increase more than revenues tied to inflationary increases.
It's just Ford and Stintz being dicks.
ehlow
Senior Member
Why was it delayed?
rbt
Senior Member
It was among the capital items Ford's team deferred in his first year.
TTC happens to have some potential money available right now but a decision on what to apply it to (McNicole garage is Byfords only choice) was deferred until 2015.
So, political reasons.
JayBeeGooner
Active Member
Didn't Nunziata bring the motion forward? She's a even bigger dick than Stintz and Ford.
rbt
Senior Member
She may have been the messenger but it wasn't her message.
edmundoconnor
Active Member
Toronto needs more buses and streetcars than it has, full stop. If the next mayor truly wants to do something concrete in their first term, it's okaying McNicoll and putting in a big order for new buses. Let's get the old warhorses off the road for good.
dowlingm
Senior Member
I know it's nibbling around the edges, but would cancelling whatever YRT/MT contract routes TTC still run help? I think some of the York ones went already so maybe not.
innsertnamehere
Superstar
Those contracted routes are really infrequent and don't take many buses to operate.
Half of them are going to be eliminated in 2016 when the spadina subway opens anyway.
Half of them are going to be eliminated in 2016 when the spadina subway opens anyway.
ehlow
Senior Member
http://www.thestar.com/news/city_ha.../28/council_backs_scarborough_bus_garage.html
Council backs Scarborough bus garage
Woo hoo
Council backs Scarborough bus garage
Woo hoo
W. K. Lis
Superstar
It should be remembered that the church and residential buildings were built on land that was zoned as industrial. To build those buildings, they had to beg the city for permission to allow them to do so. However, the surrounding land and the land they built those buildings on, were still zoned industrial.
A bus garage is considered industrial. The land was and is zoned industrial. So the TTC could build their needed garage because it does conform to the zone.
Other industrial users could still move into other land parcels around that area, that are still zoned industrial.
A bus garage is considered industrial. The land was and is zoned industrial. So the TTC could build their needed garage because it does conform to the zone.
Other industrial users could still move into other land parcels around that area, that are still zoned industrial.
ehlow
Senior Member
No matter where this garage was built, the people would complain and exaggerate the reasons it should not be in THEIR neighbourhood. Yet we do need garages somewhere.
nfitz
Superstar
Hard to comprehend. The land was zoned heavy industrial. I really can't think of a much more benign heavy industrial land use.
dowlingm
Senior Member
The issue isn't that the garage will be there, it's that the residents are.
Mind you, I thought Maria Augimeri was coming on strong yesterday when she said the residents there should have known they lived near industrial land. I doubt she had anything of that line when visiting her residents living closest to Sunrise Propane.
Mind you, I thought Maria Augimeri was coming on strong yesterday when she said the residents there should have known they lived near industrial land. I doubt she had anything of that line when visiting her residents living closest to Sunrise Propane.