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Refer to Oakville and Mississauga gas plants. It's politics, work the system to get voters what they want, get re-elected. Many high-ups knew this would be the most likely outcome. 3 months ago at a TTC meeting Andy and Chris were so vague about details on SRT plans during the shutdown for...

By-election in Scarborough riding + timing of subway vote 3 weeks before election = subway funding.

You should look up what happened with the first subway construction. Scarborough and Etobicoke councillers were outraged that their residents were being asked to pay for a subway for downtown residents that most of them would never use. To appease the voters they abolished the fare by distance...

Most of the Scarborough hydro corridors are green space with bike paths, so it is not an outlandish suggestion.

No suggestion intended, don't know how you interpreted that from what I posted. Planning for the subways was the transportation infrastructure for jobs in those employment districts. Lower capacity infrastructure planning (sheppard & SRT) for the next 3 decades shows that they are no longer...

Not saying that the transit was going to create job growth. Metro was supposed to focus on job creation in those employment districts and employees would have rapid transit capacity available to reach those new jobs. Macro events had jobs fleeing Toronto, 1.3 million in 1983 and it just...

The original plan was in time for panam games. McGuinty delayed funding for MoveOntario 2020, plus municipalites that were promised money for LRT's realized they were in over there heads in commiting to that time schedule for completion. Sheppard LRT line had started and McGuinty had...

If you look at the movement of people, (begining to end destination) at Kennedy Station, the highest of incoming passengers (a.m) are from the RT. Most of these people (from visual analysis) are transferring to the subway, not the Eglinton bus (else the line for the 34 would be much longer than...

This is what I find scary about the reliance on real estate to produce wealth in this province, especially with YTD YoY $ sales (up to end of June) for TREB being down 5%: Structure of the Ontario Economy, 2012 Per Cent share of Nominal GDP Health & Education 13.2% Real Estate Renting &...

Existing GO service is at capacity. LSE local (Pickering to Union) is standing room only pretty much past guildwood. Stouffville line is standing room only at Milliken. LSE cannot more any more trains at this time because it is also running many express trains Oshawa to Union that are at...

In London, they could not recover the cost of implementing the tolls, they had to increase the price. Increased the price, usage dropped, revenue dropped again. This is the problem the city is having with water, raise water rates to cover infrastructure improvements, usage goes down, less...

This doesn't address how to to increase capacity in public transit or the challenges of introducing tolls or road usage fees to pay for it. In order to accommodate increased usage on public transit you need to add capacity to the system before people get out of their cars, we are at capacity...

We need to be very careful about what we want to accomplish with a congestion tax. London's congestion tax was to discourage driving in the zone and to raise funds. Problem was that the $$ raised was below what they anticipated, so they raised the price. Everytime they raise the price the...

Commercial developments are exempt from development charges and city council is recommending them to be kept this way as a plan to bring jobs to the city. from A Strategic Plan for Accelerating Economic Growth and Job Creation in Toronto. That shows you how strong a grip these developers have...

Is the government's job to deliver services to residents or to provide well paying jobs. Middle class jobs disappeared from Toronto and moved to 905 region over the last 30 years. 905 region has a higher median wage. If the only way the city can increase average income is to increase the pay of...

Considering that across city of Toronto residents the median hourly wage is $20.50, a low end job at $22 is too high. If the median wage is higher in the Toronto public service than private sector we have a problem since the public sector salaries are being paid through tax revenue raised off...

I agree. The GO service currently provided in Scarborough is superior to almost all TTC services provided in overlapping locations. LSE & Stoufville Lincolnville train lines to Union, GO bus STC to York U, Yorkdale, Centennial College, Durham College. UTSC, to Yonge and Finch. If Scarborough...

I deal in it. No bike courier is going to ride a contract to IBM Markham or Microsoft mississauga. Most distribution warehouses are located near the airport or brampton. I would also struggle finding a courier to park on adelaide and lug servers, laptops or even office furniture down to king...

My company was just one of many on King West and we asked for rush deliveries by 10am or needed and executed hard copy original contract picked up by end of day at least once a week. It happens more often than you think. Fedex and UPS are more visible because they are in commercial trucks...

I think that people are grossly over estimating the number of people that drive into the core. Less than 25% of inbound vehicular traffic to the core is single occupant drivers, and that includes taxis and commercial vehicles. (from the Toronto Cordon Count). Once you factor in non-commercial...