{"id":15340,"date":"2010-11-03T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T13:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=15340"},"modified":"2010-11-03T11:11:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T15:11:52","slug":"karen-stintz-%e2%80%93-new-ttc-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/11\/03\/karen-stintz-%e2%80%93-new-ttc-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Stintz \u2013 New TTC Chair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4022\/4364974843_51f2afa958_z.jpg\" alt=\"photo by Robert Taylor\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mayor Rob Ford: a new title Torontonians will have to get used to saying over the coming years. While many are focusing on the results of the mayor\u2019s race (like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/todays-paper\/Downtown+burbs+divide+dismissed\/3743600\/story.html\">cover of Friday&#8217;s National post<\/a>, for instance) the City\u2019s most senior roles below that of mayor are up for grabs as City Hall is shaken up before returning to session. How does TTC Chair Karen Stintz sound?<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/comment\/columnists\/sueann_levy\/2010\/10\/27\/15856176.html \">some<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metronews.ca\/toronto\/local\/article\/678431--who-will-take-the-wheel-at-the-ttc\">whispers<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/article\/881691--ford-confirms-streetcar-scrapping-in-doubt\">around<\/a> City Hall, Stintz is a shoe-in for the position, though she hasn&#8217;t jumped the gun. \u201cI haven\u2019t talked to anyone yet,\u201d Stintz told <em>Spacing<\/em> in an interview on Friday. She was happy to give her outlook on transit within her ward, though, and we at <em>Spacing<\/em> took a closer look at her voting record on transit issues in the past.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As councillor since 2003 for Ward 16 Eglinton\u2013Lawrence, Stintz stands at ground zero for Transit City\u2019s planned improvements to transit infrastructure north of the Bloor-Danforth line. When it comes to Transit City\u2019s plan, Stintz sees the Eglinton line as a mixed blessing. \u201cI\u2019m in favour of the Eglinton LRT, but I was in favour of a subway under Eglinton. The decision has been made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The economic diversity of Eglinton is what many, including David Miller, see as a key reason behind Transit City\u2019s plan. Outside of Ward 16, Eglinton West is home to many new immigrants, considerable poverty and frequent crime. Conversely, Ward 16 itself boasts an annual income of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/toronto\/features\/torontovotes2006\/wards\/16.html\">$100,000 in almost half <\/a>of its households.<\/p>\n<p>When asked how she feels about transit as a means to reaching better jobs and opportunities, Stintz was optimistic. \u201cI support transit across the city, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But LRTs may not be her first choice. \u201cWe have pretty good access in our area as it. It\u2019s a balance, sometimes a route works best with buses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly areas would benefit, and it if is an LRT then I accept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A member of <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/toronto\/archive\/2010\/01\/15\/the-torontonians-karen-stintz-s-political-reboot.aspx\">the federal Conservative party and provincial Progressive Conservatives<\/a>, as well as a favourite of John Tory, her name in association with Rob Ford makes sense. Her voting record doesn\u2019t reveal a closet public transit activist, although she may be as close as a conservatively led council may get.<\/p>\n<p>In the past she has supported the city paying the remaining cost for the new streetcars while the province and federal government played musical chairs deciding who would pay for what. Her office, however, makes it clear in their materials that she is not comfortable with the way the situation played out.<\/p>\n<p>She has also <a href=\"http:\/\/karenstintz.com\/city-council\/voting-record\/ \">voted against<\/a> the Union Station revitalization and the prioritization of the mythical Downtown Relief Line.<\/p>\n<p>She has stated that were she a part of the TTC, her priorities would be make the TTC cleaner and to work to better implement Presto \u2014 keeping in line with outgoing TTC Chair Adam Giambrone&#8217;s dire warnings about staying on track, a simple approach may be just what the doctor ordered.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bobolink\/4364974843\/\" target=\"_self\">Robert Taylor<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Rob Ford: a new title Torontonians will have to get used to saying over the coming years. While many are focusing on the results of the mayor\u2019s race (like the cover of Friday&#8217;s National post, for instance) the City\u2019s most senior roles below that of mayor are up for grabs as City Hall is<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/11\/03\/karen-stintz-%e2%80%93-new-ttc-chair\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Karen Stintz \u2013 New TTC Chair?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[629,1264,408,425,444,1969,426,22085,227,12885,362,391],"class_list":["post-15340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-transit","tag-adam-giambrone","tag-conservative-party","tag-councillor","tag-david-miller","tag-john-tory","tag-karen-stintz","tag-mayor","tag-politics","tag-rob-ford","tag-robert-taylor","tag-ttc-chair","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Karen Stintz \u2013 New TTC Chair? - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/11\/03\/karen-stintz-\u2013-new-ttc-chair\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Karen Stintz \u2013 New TTC Chair? - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mayor Rob Ford: a new title Torontonians will have to get used to saying over the coming years. 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