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...
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...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 24, 2007 | GTA Issues, Public Transit
This was not on the table during the last provincial election; however loosing the TTC may be the evolution of progress or the greatest public transit “coup” ever conceived by the Province of Ontario. read more | digg story
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...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 20, 2007 | GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Politics, Public Transit, Toronto
To be honest, I love subways and I have a bit of a bias towards the Sheppard Subway line. I have always believed that if the subway was completed, or at least ½ done, than it would have never been considered as an option to close or shut down, in the Toronto tax...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 17, 2007 | GTA Development, GTA Issues, Public Transit
Transit shows up now and then among every campaign’s promises, but common to all is a poor understanding of the real needs and costs. Even media veterans who should know their way around the issue fall into the trap of believing the way each party describes the...