TTC
• TTC to install crisis phones in every subway station [Globe & Mail]
• TTC manager charged with fraud [Globe & Mail]
• Fraud charges laid in alleged TTC scam [The Sun]
• 4 charged in TTC fraud probe [The Star]
• Big Presto swipe [NOW]
CITY HALL & PIGGY BANKS
• Council minutiae [NOW]
• Council debates will get nasty in the fall [The Sun]
• Ford’s opponents need to compromise or innovate [Globe & Mail]
• Piggy bank stolen at City Hall. No that isn’t a metaphor [National Post]
• Ham back my missing piggy, councillor demands [The Sun]
• Budget chair’s piggy bank pignapped [The Star]
• The mystery of the missing piggy bank [Globe & Mail]
CYCLING
• Cyclist says his count justifies bike lane on John [The Star]
• Protected bike lanes to be considered by public works [Globe & Mail]
• Small businesses turning to pedal power [Globe & Mail]
• Mayor Ford on board ‘Good Bike Project’ [National Post]
COMMUNITY HOUSING
• Great social housing sell-off underway, critics warn [The Star]
• City expects $15M from house sale [National Post]
• Toronto city council votes to sell 22 TCHC homes [Globe & Mail]
OTHER NEWS
• Ottawa agrees to pay businesses nearly $2M in G8/G20 compensation [National Post]
• No such thing as free roads [NOW]
4 comments
Although G20 is still in the news, it rather pales compared to the Vancouver 2011 Stanley Cup riots. I mean, wow. What does this mean for the future of large public events in public spaces? For the need for ever more surveillance cameras? For show of force from police? Very disturbing stuff.
Maybe this is a bit pessimistic of me, but the “Mayor’s Bike Plan” seems to mainly include removing existing bike lanes, halting the development of any bike infrastructure on Bloor, and then putting a handful of separated lanes on streets that don’t actually have any bicycle traffic generators (i.e. Richmond).
Adam Giambrone called it “one step forward, two steps back” but that seems like more praise than it deserves to me.
Breaking news that Councillor Wong-Tam, with the help of the City Manager and the Manager of Children’s Services, has helped Progress Child Care get all of its City funding up front for the month of July.
http://bit.ly/lrdj57
Wonder why local councillor Norm Kelly was MIA. Local residents better be questioning their support for him and the Mayor.
Speaking of Giambrone, I found it characteristically ballsy of him to criticise the Ford/Stintz regime for taking Presto in exchange for provincial money, when the Union/Queens Park/Kipling etc. Presto machines ended up there by exactly the same route under his mandate.