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This TTC fiasco story won’t end soon, it looks like — Moscoe may step down from the the TTC Chair position<\/a>. From Jeff Gray in the Globe and Mail today:<\/p>\n

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With the Toronto Transit Commission in crisis and some placing the blame at the feet of its combative chairman, Howard Moscoe, the long-time local politician said yesterday he is thinking of stepping aside. But not yet. Yesterday, Mr. Moscoe said he was at least considering giving up his post as TTC chairman after the Nov. 13 election to make way for TTC vice-chairman Adam Giambrone, who has taken on a bigger role speaking to the media since the May 29 strike that stranded more than 700,000 transit users for most of that day. “It may be time at that time for me to hand it over to Councillor Giambrone, who has done an excellent job during this difficult period,” Mr. Moscoe told reporters yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To that I say: step aside for Giambrone<\/em>? He’s in his late-20s and has only been a councillor for 2.5 years and you want to put him in charge of the transit commission? He has been the chair of the Toronto Cycling Committee and is Toronto’s cycling advocate. What has happened under his bike leadership? Almost nothing. Last year 1km of bike lanes were built. The year before? Something like 20 km. We may get a few more lanes this year too<\/a>, but with each passing month we seem to fall further and further behind on the city’s Bike Plan. If Giambrone can’t convince enough councillors to put a few bike lanes in their wards, how he is going to handle the demands and pressures of the TTC? And all this bitchy commentary is coming from someone who likes Giambrone — he his smart and articulate, but he is a “model” politician who doesn’t seem capable of taking a risk. Each sentence is very calculated. Someone like Joe Mihevc who has much more commission experience and the respect of a lot of councillors may make a better choice.<\/p>\n

Also, I found this article<\/a> from a 1999 Eye Weekly with the headline: “The War on Moscoe: With the TTC chairman in a battle to keep his job, is anyone fighting for our cash-starved transit system?” Just kinda interesting for historical context.<\/p>\n

Recently-resigned\/ousted Rick Ducharme is making the media rounds: today he talks to Kevin McGran at the Star about how the car is dominating Toronto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“This is a transit city? Oh, my God,” chuckles Rick Ducharme, the city’s pre-eminent expert on the matter, who took some time between packing boxes in his office at TTC headquarters to talk about his seven years as chief general manager of Canada’s largest public transit system.<\/p>\n

“The car rules. That’s just Toronto; North American city.”In a wide-ranging 90-minute interview in his soon-to-be-vacated office overlooking the Davisville subway station, Ducharme laid the blame for his departure at the feet of Toronto Transit Commission chair Howard Moscoe and Mayor David Miller, both of whom he said meddled in union matters that were better left to management. And he fretted about the future of transit in Toronto, which looked solid when the province announced subway funding in its spring budget. Ducharme says transit’s future now may not be as rosy.”The province has changed the rules since the budget,” Ducharme said. “There’s no such thing as consistency in this stuff.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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