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Toronto unveils ambitious works agenda

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 30, 2007 | GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Toronto

“The TTC takes up 46 per cent of the 2008 capital budget. It has to replace aging streetcars, buses and subway cars. Some $79.4 million will be spent on 234 subway cars to replace aging ones and boost capacity. A further $175.5 million will pay for 193...

What goes around comes around?

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 29, 2007 | GTA Development, GTA Issues, Technology

I am a fan of the Toronto Island Airport. I like the idea of flying out of the downtown Toronto area, using a convenient connection to places like Ottawa, Montreal and points beyond. I also like the Porter Airline concept, along with the use of Canadian technology in...

Toronto revitalized waterfront and its gaseous beauty!

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 29, 2007 | GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Issues

It’s amazing but little press has been given to the large natural gas power-plant being built on Toronto’s “revitalized waterfront”. It should be a sight to hold; attracting visitors from all around the world to “behold its beauty and awe”. With its large smoke stacks...

Control of TTC deserves study

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 28, 2007 | GTA Development, GTA Issues, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto

Transit advocates at Toronto City Hall passionately oppose any suggestion that Queen’s Park might snatch the TTC from municipal hands and put it under a region-wide transportation authority. “I would fight that tooth and nail,” Mayor David Miller...

Merging the TTC and GO under GTTA control?

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 24, 2007 | GTA Culture, GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto

The Toronto Star, CityTV (Breakfast Television) and other media outlets are reporting that the TTC maybe “high-jacked” by the Liberal Government of Ontario, which may have been secretly planned all along. Rumors are flying high that the TTC may be taken over by the...

Tax Me I’m Torontonian

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 23, 2007 | Canada, GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Politics, Public Transit, Toronto

Toronto Council has finally passed the controversial new land-transfer tax and vehicle registration tax/fee. Although a compromise was needed, Toronto should now have the stable funding that they require to run the city. Barring that the housing market does not go...
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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said she’s “speechless” about the continued delayed of the Eglinton Crosstown, saying she’s no more knowledgeable on the project than residents and business owners who’ve been waiting years for it to wrap up.

“I don’t know what to say anymore, it’s leaving me speechless,”  said Chow.

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