CITY HALL
• Three city-run daycares to close [The Star]
• Mayor’s press secretary resigns [The Star]
• Ford’s press secretary resigns for job at the Toronto Sun [Globe & Mail]
• Should libraries stick to books? [The Star]
• A budget of many small cuts but no apocalypse [Globe & Mail]
• Budget wheeling and dealing begins [National Post]
• Council compromise preserves Environment Days [Globe & Mail]
• ‘It’s going to require funding’ to bring response times up to standard: Toronto Fire Chief [National Post]
• Why a 2.5% property tax increase is probably no increase at all [The Grid]
• Ford takes defeat in trash wars [The Sun]
• A new park plan for the city within a park [Torontoist]
• Budget 2012: the house isn’t burning, but we’re going to cut things anyway [Torontoist]
• Have your say about Toronto’s 2012 budget [Torontoist]
TRANSIT & TRAFFIC
• TTC may not run the Eglinton crosstown LRT [The Star]
• Toronto among most risky places to drive [The Star]
• GTA drivers more likely to crash, new study says [National Post]
• Motorcycle free parking faces T.O. ban [The Sun]
OTHER NEWS
• Fiorito: sale of houses hurts tenants [The Star]
• Mississauga becomes a borrower [The Star]
• Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens gets a makeover – and a new name [Globe & Mail]
• Snapshot: Bixi arrives on Bathurst [The Grid]
4 comments
Re: transit, my frustration with reading this news from afar just makes me want to send a giant banner to City Hall saying, “YOU’RE F*CKING IT UP, ROB!”
Very civil, I know.
a tractor-trailer with sideguards passed me in downtown toronto this morning. if you think that sideguards are a good thing, like i do, feel free to give positive feedback to the company that rented out the trailer:
http://www.brossard.com/eng/contactus.html
Re: Should libraries stick to books?
Either Mike Del Grande knows nothing about the value of the library, or he knows it perfectly well, and purposefully tries to steer it to extinction. Yep, that is the way to go, old fashion room full of (English only) books, and soon you will have a library system with few users, and closure becomes fully justifiable.
Re: motorcycle parking
no surprise that the city just doesn’t get it. Clearly they’re just following the anti-motorcycle stance that the Ontario government is taking. First they change ‘stunting laws’ so that stretching your legs out can be a license suspending offense, then they decide that bikes don’t belong in the HOW lanes, and now this!
so when I pay for parking, and get a little paper slip as proof of payment… where exactly on my bike should I put it? And what’s to stop someone from just taking it?