Mayor John Tory's Toronto

[Videodrome]

Is Tory trying to imitate Rob Ford or something?

 

[JWBF]

I just asked in the taxi thread, but how mass transit is defined is a good question. Do 5 people in a car constitute mass transit? Or does it become mass because 5 people are in 10 cars, meaning 50 people are using the service?

I probably wouldn't use any quantity of people to define mass transit.

To me, mass transit is:

1) Fixed route and/or regularly scheduled service
2) Shared vehicle (vehicle may have 1 person capacity shared at different points of time).
3) Charge a fee strictly for transportation (no membership required, not included with purchase of a different service like a hotel room or flight ticket)

Dial-a-bus might throw a kink in #1 but I'm not sure I actually consider those mass transit; much closer to a subsidized city-run taxi service.

According to Wikipedia, Public/Mass Transit is...

Public transport (North American English: public transportation or mass transit) is a shared passenger transport service which is available for use by the general public, as distinct from modes such as taxicab, carpooling or hired buses which are not shared by strangers without private arrangement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport

So... let's form a committee to describe this service, oh wait...

 

[salsa]

Is Tory trying to imitate Rob Ford or something?

As always, Gord Perks is one of the only rational voices who is not afraid to call out the fiscal incompetence at city hall.

 

[Videodrome]

This obsession with low taxes is annoying. I don't mind paying more if I get services in return.

 

[wild goose chase]

According to Wikipedia, Public/Mass Transit is...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport

So... let's form a committee to describe this service, oh wait...

Do travels by airplane, ferry or cruise ships count as public/mass transit?

 

[evvabeing]

Weekend violence met with cop shortage

As we deal with the city’s 52nd homicide of the year, a shooting in Rexdale Tuesday, you should know there was so much bloody violence last weekend, Toronto Police didn’t have enough officers on duty to respond to all the calls.
[...]
This list shows the craziness of the weekend:

FRIDAY

* 2:57 p.m., a stabbing at 66 Wellington Ave.

* 3 p.m., shooting at Warden Ave. and Comstock St.

* 5:57 p.m., fatal shooting at Peter St. and King St.

* 6:35 p.m., police shooting at 17 Choquette Rd.

* 9 p.m., fatal shooting at 105 Parkway Forest.

* 9:45 p.m., stabbing at a McDonald’s at Yonge and Gerrard St.

*11:46 p.m., officers suffer minor injuries after arrest at 350 Dovencourt Rd.

SATURDAY

* 2:33 a.m., stabbing at 2870 Eglinton Ave. E.

* 2:34 a.m., stabbing at 66 Blake St.

* 3:03 a.m., stabbing at 1625 Wilson Ave.

* 3:14 a.m., shooting at Kingston Rd. and McCowan Ave.

* 8 p.m., shooting at Eglinton Ave. W. and Keele St.

* 8 p.m., stabbing at Dufferin St. and Davenport Rd.

SUNDAY

* 11 p.m., shooting at Martingrove Ave. and Finch Ave.

“We have these blips, we have these weekends,” Saunders told reporters.

http://m.torontosun.com/2015/12/15/cop-shortage-for-weekend-violence

 

[JWBF]

Do travels by airplane, ferry or cruise ships count as public/mass transit?

Airplanes if regional and ferries but not cruise ships. Since this is in the city lets stick non regional multi rider transport like buses and LRT/MRT/HRT vehicles.

 

[Videodrome]

http://news.yahoo.com/video/taxi-uber-black-drivers-block-180026238.html

More taxi protests, this time in Philly.

 

[PinkLucy]

Not just taxis though, UberBlack protesting UberX!

 

[bobbob911]

Weekend violence met with cop shortage

http://m.torontosun.com/2015/12/15/cop-shortage-for-weekend-violence

This article references an after-hours club near Kingston & McCowan - unless its in the Shoppers Drug Mart I don't think there is such a club.

By the way, 52 homicides is on pace to be one of the lowest totals in the last 10 years!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Toronto

 

[Videodrome]

https://twitter.com/NatalieCTV/status/677241627350581248

Today at City Hall: John Tory runs into students on field trip & provides impromptu tour of Council Chamber #TOpoli

I feel much better about Tory interacting with students than the last mayor!

 

[evvabeing]

This article references an after-hours club near Kingston & McCowan - unless its in the Shoppers Drug Mart I don't think there is such a club.

By the way, 52 homicides is on pace to be one of the lowest totals in the last 10 years!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Toronto

the guys in that shooting took them selves to hospital, so it says...

a shooting believed to have happened near Kingston Road and McCowan Road around 3:30 a.m.

http://www.640toronto.com/2015/12/12/98003/

hopefully they have a better sense of where it happened by now.

main thing that gets me though, is... i don't understand how $1.156 billion per year (which is more than $3 million per day) isn't enough money for enough cops to cover a handful of life threatening events in one day, in a city of almost 3 million.

 

[bobbob911]

Well, in terms of number of police officers per capita (right now about 200 per 100K), we are pretty low compared to similar cities in US and Canada. Here are some metrics for US cities - you have to go down to cities like Austin/Phoenix/Indianapolis to be comparable:

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/s...ce-department-employee-totals-for-cities.html

We are also lower than Vancouver and Montreal (both around 250 per 100K)

 

[Videodrome]

http://www.postcity.com/Eat-Shop-Do...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

John Tory is already getting honored for bring back dignity to the mayor's office.

 

[rbt]

Do travels by airplane, ferry or cruise ships count as public/mass transit?

Yes they do.

The "public" doesn't mean public funded, it means publicly accessible.