• Vaughan to launch monthly expense report on Web site [ National Post ]
• We’re finally waking up to cities’ enormous role [ Toronto Star ]
• More transit shelters coming, slowly [ Toronto Star ]
• RIDE stats shoot up [ Toronto Sun ]
• ‘They paved paradise and put up a parking lot’ [ National Post ]
• City’s great, but are we in decline? [ Toronto Sun ]
• Environmental assessment process to be shortened for Blue 22 [ Globe & Mail ]
Monday’s headlines
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Somehow, I bet the writer of “‘They paved paradise and put up a parking lot” doesn’t mind that her property value is much higher than it would be if Shaw and other tourist traffic were not in NOTL. She doesn’t want more tourists or tourist infrastructure: just what has done her real estate portfolio well, I suppose. Never mind that Joni Mitchell’s song well describes the subdivisions she wants unchanged.
Thankfully Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong spoke up about Toronto’s tax climate killing jobs in the city.
Has there been any update on Blue22’s pricing? Is it still $20 one way? If so, who the hell is this supposed to benefit for other than a very, very small segment of the population? I hope the people who live in that area have their concerns addressed because I think they have legitimate concerns. But the shortened environmental assessment process seems designed to prevent that from happening. Question: What’s the trick most oft-used trick that politicians and bureaucrats rely on to try to shut people up who are raising legitimate concerns about a project? Answer: Label them NIMBY.
Interesting that most of the new shelters installed for the first few years won’t be new at all… they will just be replacement of the older shelters. Wouldn’t it make more sense to fill in locations that currently have no shelter first (or, that have damaged shelters)?