PROVINCIAL BUDGET
• Miller outraged as budget sideswipes GTA transit [ Toronto Star ]
• David Miller calls delaying transit projects “disgraceful” [ National Post ]
• Miller slams ‘disgraceful’ budget [ Toronto Sun ]
• Toronto-area transit projects put on hold [ Globe & Mail ]
• Province to ask Metrolinx for $4B in transit savings [ National Post ]
ROB FORD
• Rob Ford enters mayor race vowing to cut council seats [ Toronto Star ]
• Welcome aboard, Ford’s foes say [ Toronto Sun ]
• Ford kicks off mayoral campaign with pledge to cut city council [ Globe & Mail ]
• The secret’s out: Rob Ford is in [ National Post ]
OTHER NEWS
• 1,300 on police force in $100,000-a-year club [ Toronto Sun ]
• Lawsuit targets St. Clair streetcar route [ Toronto Star ]
• Hume: Time to wake up, smell the diesel [ Toronto Star ]
• Ants drive residents buggy [ Toronto Star ]
• Town hall revamp reinvents past for Milton’s future [ Toronto Star ]
• Union drive targets city hall [ Toronto Star ]
• Student engagement just a click away [ Globe & Mail ]
• ‘Sculpted’ tower slated for One Bloor [ National Post ]
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So, I guess next years ‘balanced budget’ is out of the question also.
So basically Simtherman and McGuinty have conspired to evaporate the cornerstone of Rocco Rossi’s municipal election platform! Simtherman will now campaign on promoting transit and once Smitherman wins the mayor’s seat, new funding will appear!! Genius!!!
its amazing, for awhile it looked like things were on there way up…transit city was on the books, shovels poised awaiting some EA results..discussion around a relief line was picking up again even expansion of the TTC into the 905 was being proposed..sure there were some hiccups..the st.clair project had/has some issues, contracts for subway and streetcars seemed to be a little one-sided and were delayed..but all in all we looked to be moving ahead..then 2010 roles around.. the economy still sucks which means we cut back on the things that have to fight for cash anyway…transit/environment/public space… then I hear the mayor hopefuls? rossi, smitherman talking about rethinking TC…Ford joins the race (yikes). Thompson floats a pie in the sky road pricing scheme…$5 a trip..good job-very realistic. Giambrone, whom I had hope for, pulls a tiger woods..good job! Hume, again opens our eyes to the disaster that is the Pearson link. 8 years of talk and nothing to show but a decision to use diesel locomotives that don’t exist yet. Am I the only one that thinks this is absurd. Have we not a single European in the house that can show Metrolinx a few pics of electrified trains..would that count as a study? …PANAM2015 here we come..can’t you hear our horns!
Sorry for the rant, but these garbage decisions are making me sick to my stomach..
I still have my fingers crossed for a brighter future…
Where are the highway expansion cuts in the budget?
The aggravating thing is that writing to your MPP to protest the cuts seems like such a waste of time. Toronto’s Liberal representatives are a bunch of useless backbenchers. I don’t think Tony Ruprecht is going to emerge from his 25-year coma to start speaking for Toronto now.