{"id":400,"date":"2005-12-15T13:21:04","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T17:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=400"},"modified":"2005-12-15T13:23:28","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T17:23:28","slug":"citizen-ttc-commissioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/12\/15\/citizen-ttc-commissioners\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen TTC Commissioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eye.net\/eye\/issue\/issue_12.15.05\/op\/photos\/editorial.JPG\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Eye Weekly<\/em> was inspired by a suggestion by <a href=\"http:\/\/eddrass.com\/metro.htm\">Ed Drass<\/a>, the transit columnist of the daily commuter paper Metro, that the two seats currently open on the TTC should be filled by non-politicians. Since 1990, all of the seats on the Commission have been filled by city councillors, so this move would be a break with tradition. But as Drass pointed out, services as important as the police have non-elected citizen commissioners. <em>Eye<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eye.net\/eye\/issue\/issue_12.15.05\/op\/editorial.html\">editorial this week<\/a> has some suggestions about who would best fill the two available slots: Steve Munro, a TTC actvist; James Bow of <a href=\"http:\/\/transit.toronto.on.ca\">Transit Toronto<\/a>, the most in-depth archive of Toronto&#8217;s tranit system; and, most excitingly, <em>Spacing<\/em>&#8216;s publisher Matthew Blackett, who was cited as someone who could help market the TTC and help build the mythology of our experiences on subways and buses. <\/p>\n<p>Also check out <em>Spacing<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/buttons.htm\">subway station button collection<\/a> that is featured in <em>Eye<\/em>&#8216;s gift guide section. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eye Weekly was inspired by a suggestion by Ed Drass, the transit columnist of the daily commuter paper Metro, that the two seats currently open on the TTC should be filled by non-politicians. 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