{"id":3634,"date":"2008-09-23T16:36:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T20:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/09\/23\/giambrone-sounds-metrolinx-privatization-alarm\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:17:13","slug":"giambrone-sounds-metrolinx-privatization-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/09\/23\/giambrone-sounds-metrolinx-privatization-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Giambrone sounds Metrolinx privatization alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TTC chair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/councillors\/giambrone1.htm\">Adam Giambrone <\/a>is sounding the alarm on the potential for provincially-mandated privatization of public transit just hours after the launch of Metrolinx&#8217;s launch of its $50 billion, 25 year regional transportation plan. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/councillors\/photos\/agiambrone.jpg\" style=\"width: 160px; height: 210px\" align=\"right\" height=\"210\" width=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook status update, the TTC chair wrote Adam Giambrone \u00e2\u20ac\u0153is worried that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolinx.com\">Metrolinx <\/a>and IO (Infrastructure Ontario) are looking at private transit operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up e-mail exchange with Giambrone&#8217;s executive assistant Kevin Beaulieu, Spacing was told that the concern stems from Giambrone&#8217;s understanding that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pir.gov.on.ca\/english\/aboutpir\/agencies\/io.htm\">Infrastructure Ontario<\/a>, an agency of the new super ministry headed up by Minister George Smitherman, would be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153involved in AFP (Alternative Finance and Procurement) screening.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The release of the Metrolinx document had been delayed due to disagreements with the TTC on how to integrate its Transit City plan into the regional plan and other politically uncomfortable topics like the use of road tolls or other taxes to pay for the plan. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/GTA\/article\/504307\">reports<\/a> from the Toronto Star, the question of finance remains largely unaddressed beyond the money promised by the provincial government in its previously announced $17.5 billion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.premier.gov.on.ca\/news\/Product.asp?ProductID=1383\">Move2020<\/a> plan.<\/p>\n<p>Spacing has not been provided with a copy of the Metrolinx report released today but it <strike>does not appear to be online at this time<\/strike> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolinx.com\/Docs\/1\/Board\/Sep08\/PP%2008-013%20Draft%20RTP%20-%20Appendix%20A.pdf\">appears online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photograph courtesy City of Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TTC chair Adam Giambrone is sounding the alarm on the potential for provincially-mandated privatization of public transit just hours after the launch of Metrolinx&#8217;s launch of its $50 billion, 25 year regional transportation plan. 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