All Entries Tagged With: "Metrolinx"
Warren: Smitherman’s The Ticket On Transit
Former TTC GM Michael Warren weighs in on the transit plans of the leading mayoral candidates and agrees with the ideas articulated by George Smitherman: “He seems to understand the socio-economic “value case” for enhanced transit, and the magnitude of investment that it will take to provide Torontonians with convenient, car-competitive transit service. His $17.4 [...]
Mayoral Candidates Eye Metrolinx Partnership
With two of the leading mayoral candidates indicating a willingness to review and possible alter transit jurisdiction, the idea of transferring the subway system to the province seems to once again be on the table: “Mr. Smitherman, who wouldn’t comment on his transit platform Wednesday, has indicated he’s much less opposed to giving transit jurisdiction [...]
Gee: Subway Tunnels In The Sky
Globe columnist Marcus Gee is skeptical the mayoral candidates can deliver on their pledge to bring expanded an subway system to Toronto residents: “Subways cost around three times as much as light rail. Expanding the Spadina subway north to York University, for example, is costing about $300-million a kilometre. Do the math.Yet some of our [...]
Granatstein: Off The Rails
Sun Editor Rob Granatstein would like to see some detailed planning go along with all the pledges from Toronto’s mayoral candidates to fund new subway construction: “What if there aren’t the population densities necessary to support subways, or make the return on investment worthwhile today, or in 25 years, when we have another million people [...]
James: Fanciful Transit Proposals Are Stuck In Traffic
The Star’s Royson James suggests most of the players in the transit debate are talking about expensive transit plans without any regard to current funding realities: “There is a mayoral candidate, Rocco Rossi, who says he’d put a stop to the current Transit City plan and review the proposal because he’s not sure if the [...]
Star: Rossi Draws Blood As Candidates Meet
The Toronto Star is reporting that a meeting about the Eglinton LRT last night almost turned into a mayoral debate. And Rocco Rossi came ready to fight: “Taking a shot at TTC chair Adam Giambrone, one of his mayoral rivals, Rossi told the crowd those responsible for another controversial expansion – the “fiasco of St. [...]
Spacing: Lorinc Talks Transit With Candidate Rossi
LeDrew, two? In the week since Rocco Rossi joined the mayoral race as a potential spoiler, there’s been much speculation about whether he represents something more substantive than Stephen LeDrew, another former Liberal Party bagman who made a spectacle of himself in the 2006 race. After Rossi’s kick-off, one right-of-centre councilor came away unpersuaded that [...]
