TPA doesn't pay property taxes as it is a city of Toronto agency. that would be like paying themselves.
TPA is not a city of Toronto agency, they report to Federal Government. And it is not an excuse to not paying taxes.
Porter doesn't own the airport, and it pays airport fees to operate out of it just like Air Canada.
TPA is a federal agency and operating a federal airport on Canadian soil. Once they record an income from their operations, it belongs to the Federal Government, thus all Canadians. They cannot claim ownership of that money and spend to promote business of a private company. I expect them to pay their taxes first, and return the excess amount of profit (if any) to the federal budget.
how are we wasting hundreds of millions again? the expansion is to be paid for through airport fees.
No it is not. Only tunnel project costs 80+ million dollars and TPA is planning to charge $20 per passenger to cover the cost of it. It is still not clear who will pay for the cost of the airport expansion (definitely not Porter), which may cost 10 times more than the tunnel itself.
Once tripartite agreement is amended we (tax payers) will be liable to pay all expansion costs to ensure Porter continues its operations thanks to "confidential" agreement signed between TPA and Porter.
Again, once a passenger pays a $20 fee to a Federal Agency, it belongs to Canadian Government and all Canadians. Therefore I expect it to be utilized to improve services at the main airport which serves ALL, instead of tunneling that money to an airport which serves mostly to ONE private company.
I am not even going into billions being poured into development of the Waterfront and Union-Pearson rail connection.
The school is 650 meters away, but still close.
Looks much closer to me but I didn't measure.
202 movements a day. Thats not that much, and it absolutely does not max out the amount that the airport can be used for.
It is way too many than what it was allowed for. TPA gradually increased allowed movements from 70s to 202 through playing with NEF calculations without executing any real impact assessment. Entire waterfront neighborhood which supposed to be "noise sensitive" area is now turning into a noisy, dirty airport neighborhood.
I can tell you right now that much more pollution comes from the Gardiner than the airport. there are 150,000 cars daily that pass by, but you are complaining about 200 planes.
Agree. Do you have a solution for that which will not cost billions of dollars?
city isn't doing a poor job, it is creating residential neighborhoods out of old industrial areas while still accommodating for the remaining uses such as the airport. The same thing is occuring with Redpaths. and Lafarge in the portlands.
It does. This is their mandate:
"Major facilities such as airports, transportation/rail infrastructure, corridors and yards, waste management facilities and industries and sensitive land uses such as residencies and educational and health facilities will be appropriately designed, buffered and/or separated from each other to prevent adverse effects from noise, vibration, odour and other contaminants, and to promote safety. To assist in identifying impacts and mitigative measures, the proponent may be required to prepare studies in accordance with guidelines established for this purpose. The proponent will be responsible for implementing any required mitigative measures".
