{"id":16342,"date":"2010-12-07T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=16342"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:36:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:36:03","slug":"that-time-rob-ford-voted-to-create-transit-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/12\/07\/that-time-rob-ford-voted-to-create-transit-city\/","title":{"rendered":"That time Rob Ford voted to create Transit City"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Tuesday morning, at a Queen’s Park media scrum<\/a>, Mayor Rob Ford declared, “As you know, there was never a vote on council for Transit City, and if there was I’d like to see that.”<\/p>\n

Well, Rob. \u00a0Okay.<\/p>\n

At its meeting of July 16\u201319, 2007 \u2014 four months after Mayor Miller and TTC Chair Giambrone unveiled Transit City<\/a> at a press conference \u2014 City Council voted to set the plan in motion. \u00a0As part of the “Climate Change, Clean Air and Sustainable Energy\u00a0Action Plan,”<\/a> Council adopted the following [pdf<\/a>, p. 8]:<\/p>\n

… that City Council\u00a0direct the initiation of appropriate environmental and engineering studies\u00a0for the Transit City plan and request the General Manager of the Toronto\u00a0Transit Commission to submit to Executive Committee in 2007 a schedule\u00a0for the completion of aforementioned studies and a financial plan including\u00a0funding sources and revenue tools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s about as unambiguous as these things tend to get. In this context, “studies” refers not to exploratory reports but rather to formal documents that are required to proceed with a major project of this nature.<\/p>\n

The final vote on the Climate Change Plan (of which the above was a component) was a unanimous 37-0, with Councillor Ford being present and voting in favour [pdf<\/a>, p. 29]:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nAlthough it was only one part of a much larger report, it’s not as though the whole Climate Change Plan was simply rubber-stamped, with Transit City just sneaking in there. \u00a0The meeting minutes indicate that eight different members of Council (Pantalone, Del Grande, Rae, Minnan-Wong, Walker, Carroll, Davis, and Lindsay Luby) put forward motions to amend various aspects of the Climate Plan, which suggests that councillors had scrutinized the report and knew what it contained before they voted on it. \u00a0If anyone had any objections to Transit City, they didn’t put them forward on the record.<\/p>\n

Was this a substitute for a full debate on Transit City? No, it wasn’t. \u00a0Nor does this by itself mean that Council approval<\/a> would now be required to change direction. \u00a0But if it’s a question of moral authority \u2014 as it has been framed \u2014 then, yes, City Council as a whole (including Rob Ford) signed off on Transit City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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