{"id":36,"date":"2005-07-13T16:57:42","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T20:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=36"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:57:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:57:32","slug":"great-idea-wrong-funding-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/13\/great-idea-wrong-funding-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Great idea, wrong funding model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/subway-arrival-signs-3586.jpg\" alt=\"subway arrivals\" \/><br \/>\nCould this be a Toronto bus stop? (image is from London&#8217;s transit system)<\/p>\n<p>Howard Moscoe, TTC Chair, has put forth a great idea &#8212; install a display for bus arrival times along suburban routes. But with any good idea in Toronto comes a caveat &#8212; the only way for the TTC to pay for it is to sell space to advertisers. The City of Toronto has recently received hundreds of millions of dollars for TTC-related projects, yet we have to turn to advertisers to pay for every new feature? Opposition to the <a href=\"http:\/\/publicspace.ca\/ttcvideo.htm\" target=\"_blank\">subway video screens<\/a> produced over 400 letters to TTC commissioners.  When will our politicians realize that selling off public space only cheapens our city?<\/p>\n<p>Check out the story on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/TPStory\/LAC\/20050713\/TTC13\/TPNational\/Toronto\" target=\"_blank\">Globe and Mail site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also email your comments to Mr. Moscoe at: <a href=\"mailto:councillor_moscoe@toronto.ca\">councillor_moscoe@toronto.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could this be a Toronto bus stop? (image is from London&#8217;s transit system) Howard Moscoe, TTC Chair, has put forth a great idea &#8212; install a display for bus arrival times along suburban routes. But with any good idea in Toronto comes a caveat &#8212; the only way for the TTC to pay for it<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/07\/13\/great-idea-wrong-funding-model\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Great idea, wrong funding model&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[21759,2,8],"tags":[11,360,361,330,359,19,362,363],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-politics","category-transit","tag-ad-creep","tag-could","tag-funding-model","tag-howard-moscoe","tag-london","tag-toronto","tag-ttc-chair","tag-wrong-funding-model"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Great idea, wrong funding model - 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\/2005\/07\/13\/great-idea-wrong-funding-model\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Great idea, wrong funding model - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Could this be a Toronto bus stop? 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