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Vibrations along streetcar tracks disrupt residents Neighbours form group to ensure increased noise issue is resolved LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com Barbara Starr is no stranger to living in neighbourhoods where streetcars make their way along tracks embedded in city streets. For several years, she has called the Dundas Street West and the Roncesvalles Avenue and also the Harbord and Bathurst streets areas home. She also lived for a stint in Roncesvalles Village. Last August, she moved to the area of Dundas West and

College streets. Streetcars are a way of life for Starr, who understands that with them comes some sound and vibration. However, over the past seven months, she has noticed a significant increase in that noise and vibration. “Since the beginning of August, the noise and vibration has increased drastically. Things vibrate across my counter,” Starr told The Villager. “My beef is the increase.” >>>SPEED, page 16

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Petition to save oak trees won’t have much affect: Doucette LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com In her quest to save several old majestic oak trees on land slated for a condominium development at Bloor Street West and Oakmount Road, nearby resident Anila Sunnak gathered more than 800 names for an online petition. Pa r k d a l e - H i g h Pa r k Councillor Sarah Doucette presented the electronic petition to Toronto City Council

at its meeting Wednesday, Feb. 20. The petition calls on the city and the developer, The Daniels Corporation, to “stop cutting oaks in High Park ecobuffer zone.” “The protocol is, the petition gets handed in, but no one can speak to it,” said Doucette. The petition garnered 801 names, however, 159 of those came from outside of Toronto, including as far >>>DEVELOPMENT, page 15

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Students share warm creations with Ronald McDonald House families LISA RAINFORD lrainford@insidetoronto.com On one of the coldest days in February, a group of Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School students paid a visit to the kids and families staying at Ronald McDonald House to bring some warm wishes in the way of knitted hats and scarves. The group of high school students, in grades 9 to 12, comprised the 12-member strong knitting club, which had created over the past month as many as 35 hats and scarves. “I asked the kids, ‘where do you want to donate them?’ Someone suggested Sick Kids hospital, but they’re not able to accept items coming into the hospital because of germs,” said educational assistant and knitting club co-ordinator Flora Venezia. The hospital, instead, suggested the club donate to Ronald McDonald House Charities. Ronald McDonald Houses provide a home-away-fromhome for families of seriously ill children who are staying at a nearby hospital. Ronald McDonald House has on-hand qualified staff and volunteers who take care of the dayto-day responsibilities of running a home – so families don’t have to worry about them. They have programs that offer everything from education to meditation. Ronald McDonald House on McCaul Street, near College Street and University Avenue, was more than happy to receive the knitted gifts, said Venezia. The club has only been meeting since the first of the month. It was Venezia who came up with the idea after being laid up

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The Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School knitting club donated hats and scarves to Ronald McDonald House on McCaul Street last week.

with a broken ankle. After months of being cooped up, she called a friend for a reprieve. “She said, ‘Don’t kill anyone,’ I’ll be right over,’” recalled Venezia with a laugh. She brought with her knitting looms and showed Venezia how to knit without using needles. That

visit was the catalyst for the school’s knitting club, which has become a big hit. “They’re busy little beavers,” said Venezia. The students say knitting is “relaxing.” It takes just a couple of hours to complete one hat, they said.

“Once you get the hang of it, it gets addictive,” said one member. It’s a great way to create gifts for people, said another. The student council can take credit for donating $200 towards purchasing the wool, which it raised through various fundraisers including school dances.

Parkdale-High Park MPP Cheri DiNovo is looking for a few good people. She is seeking nominations for her annual spring levee. Every year, the provincial politician recognizes local residents who have made a difference in the community through their volunteer work. Nominations will be open until April 1. Volunteers will be recognized on June 6 at the Lithuanian House, 1537 Bloor St. W. with a dinner and ceremony. Call 416-763-5630 or email dinovoc-co@ndp.on.ca

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To the editor: It is true that Rob Ford promised to eliminate the land transfer tax when he campaigned as the mayor. I am wondering whether he is having second thoughts about losing the ‘gravy’ of around $350 million per year. In all probabilities, the 10 per cent will pass the vote of councillors but not the full amount. In which case, when he again runs for the office of mayor, Ford can say ‘I tried to wipe it out, but all that council would support me on was the 10 per cent reduction.’ Joy Taylor

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s commuting woes continue across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), it’s time for everyone who has a stake in moving people around to come together and start talking about solutions beyond spending billions of dollars to build new rapid transit lines in the coming decades. We need to start thinking of alternatives, ones that can be quickly implemented and will see an immediate impact on not only the ways in which we move people around the GTHA, but also the cost of doing it. In the case of the TTC, it can be as simple as altering the times we use the system for our daily commute. Former TTC chair Adam Giambrone said a huge amount of costs the TTC incurs for rush-hour service could be saved if riders could spread out the times they commute. The TTC is in “a perpetual our view budget crisis” in which it is essentially penalized by higher costs New ideas linked to its increases in ridership during rush hours. Shifting needed for commute times by as little as 30 better transit minutes could alleviate some of those costs, and it’s a solution many businesses seem willing to offer their employees. Also, some foresight into future planning can lessen demands on the public transit system and also help lower operating costs. Toronto’s Chief Planner Jennifer Keesmaat is championing plans for greater intensification of the city’s major streets, with more multi-use buildings of six to seven storeys, which would feature residential, retail and office units all within the same structures. It seems like such a simple concept, get people living closer to where they work so they can avoid longer commutes. But we have to build it before they will come, and right now that’s the opposite of the way land development and planning works in the GTHA. Our roads and transit are full of people riding packed buses or driving long distances to industrial and manufacturing areas located far from residential communities. The same goes for downtown congestion as thousands rush in and out of the core each weekday, jamming an already congested subway system and major roads. We need to come up with some new and better ideas. Our feature in today’s paper, Intelligent Transit, looks at some of these proposals, and we hope it encourages readers to come up some of their own ideas. newsroom

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Council’s frailties more obvious than ever

n case anyone had any doubt, Mayor Rob Ford is as good as invulnerable. On Monday, the mayor, his brother and his lawyer went to the city’s compliance audit committee and asked they not be made to face prosecution over a compliance audit report that showed he’d overspent his campaign allowance by $40,000. When the committee agreed, the mayor escaped the second of two legal problems that could have seen him barred from office. Add to that his victory in the libel lawsuit levelled against him by the owner of the Boardwalk Cafe, and the mayor is three for three. It’s a remarkable feat, although it’s one that has been entirely consistent with Ford’s ability to deal with issues that would wipe out most politicians. Then again, most politicians would find them-

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selves rejuvinated – their mandate and influence effectively renewed. I wouldn’t bet on that in the case of Ford and the council that has long ago ceased to recognize his leadership. Council in particular seems to have descended into a lame-duck morass, not so very different from the final year of mayor David Miller’s mandate, when he made it clear he wouldn’t run again: a forum that too easily descends into posturing, positioning and vendettavoting. The February council meeting illustrated this all too well. Council spent its first day whether to debate

a walk-on item about the shelter system and tried to put one of Mayor Ford’s harshest critics onto the mayor’s executive. They went on to browbeat two of the city’s accountability officers, debate whether to let newcomers here illegally use services the city offers regardless of citizenship (and then claim victory on that basis) and put off deciding what to do with an Etobicoke hockey arena. Finally, after extending the meeting to a punishingly long evening session, they made a token sensible decision, and voted to shut down a plan by Councillor Mark Grimes to offer developers incentives to build condominiums on the waterfront. That, added to a quick motion by Councillor Paula Fletcher to formalize grace periods for parking-permit holders in the downtown neighbourhoods, represented the bulk of the collective wisdom of

council this month. But generally, the leaderless crew ran the meeting with all the grace of a sugared-up daycare full of three-year-olds trying to drive a minivan. There is no obvious mechanism for this to change. The mayor returns a survivor, but no more a bridge-builder than he ever was. Council remains an unorganized agglomeration of ambition. The city government as a whole continues to be unworthy of the fine city that it’s charged with. To put it another way: Mayor Ford may be as strong as he’s ever been; but the real frailties of Toronto’s municipal government have never been more apparent. n David Nickle is The Villager’s City Hall reporter. His column appears every Thursday. Reach him at dnickle@insidetoronto.com

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Offering flexible commutes could also reduce riders’ stress, improve productivity of employees RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com

proving more attractive to professional women with families, who must juggle As traffic gridlock worsens, their children’s needs with commuters are facing the the demands of their professtark choice of paying more sion, said Samatas. to realize the completion of “Women are looking for new transit systems or watch flexibility, but they also want commute times in the GTHA to be challenged by their job,” (Greater Toronto Hamilton said Samatas. “It’s hard to drop Area) continue to balloon to off your kid at daycare or unimaginable levels. school when you have to be at Throughout February, resia meeting by nine o’clock.” dents have had the chance to She said the company has participate in roundtables, achieved a higher rate of retenconsultations and discussions, tion for its employees who to evaluate transit plans that are keen to stay in a position, promise to reverse the tide of which affords them the flexcongestion and usher in a new ibility in how they work. The Courtesy photo future for transportachallenge, she said, is tion options – one that for more businesses to Former TTC board chair Adam Giambrone estimates that if one to two per cent of those peak-time riders could alter their won’t come cheap. offer flexible work times commute times by just 30 minutes, it would save the TTC approximately $10 million in new service costs. Even if they are without sacrificing proa funded, such massive ductivity. closer look infrastructure under“I think we have crisis,” said Giambrone, who ing could be offering “incentakings will cost tens of is now a media commentator. tives” for travelling outside come a long way, but Inside billions of dollars and Toronto it’s one thing to have a “And one thing in the mix of of peak periods so that riders will take decades to policy and another to things to consider is shifting who choose to do so could complete. Meanwhile live and breathe it every the burden from the peak receive some form of fare RAHUL GUPTA region’s transit systems, residents, no matter their day,” Samatas said. hours.” discount. Offering a flexible commute He estimates it costs the “Your goal here is to encourrgupta@insidetoronto.com which, presently, is dealchoice of transportation, ing with overcrowding and remain stuck in traffic patterns would not only improve an TTC around $6 million for age very specific travel,” said A senior Toronto architect promised only to worsen. employee’s productivity but every one per cent growth in traffic congestion. Giambrone. applauds Chief Planner Keesmaat has frequently With new transit for Toronto it would also benefit the cashridership. Chris Upfold, TTC chief of stated her support of a lowand area far off into the future strapped TTC, said the former In 2012 the TTC reported customer service, acknowlJennifer Keesmaat’s call for mid-level development rise future for Toronto that and existing transportation chair of the transit agency 514 million annual rides and edged some benefits in a camprojects with strong links to could handle the growing networks straining to deal with recently. is anticipating around 528 milpaign to encourage shifting public transit. city’s needs without raising record ridership, new ideas on The TTC’s continuing lion by the end of 2013. commute times to off-peak But David Butterworth the ire of local communities how to deal with situation are dilemma, according to Adam Giambrone estimated that periods. said he wants to see concerned about condoemerging. Giambrone, is it is attracting if one to two per cent of those But he balked at the prosKeesmaat and the city planminium towers changing Businesses, especially, are record ridership numbers, but peak-time riders could alter pect of getting the TTC to ning department settle varithe landscape of the neighlooking to find ways for a much of that travel is coming their commute times by just 30 approach employers. ous planning “ambiguities” bourhood. during the peak hours. “I think we can do somesmarter commute for their minutes, it would save the TTC regarding the building of At a recent speech at the employees. Or in some cases, thing to help our customers six- to eight-storey buildat the Toronto Board of they are eliminating the comunderstand what their options ings along major avenues Trade, Keesmaat encourmute completely by granting are, and where it might be What we find is people are more productive when in the city. aged shifting focus from employees more flexibility in busier. But aiming a camthey don’t have a long commute and are not “If Jennifer is really deciding when – and where – paign at employers is not a single-family residences exhausted. We don’t want our employees getting suggesting this then she’s they work. TTC issue,” said Upfold. to higher density mixedup at 5 a.m. so they can spend three hours on a got to allow some flexgrowth housing, particularly Local staffing and recruiting Instead, he said the TTC ibility and freedom within outside of the downtown would likely focus on benefits firm Poly Placements allows its nail-biting commute. the mid-rise guidelines,” core. workforce of around 50 people to customers, who could then – Sarah Samatas, Poly Placements said Butterworth, a senior flexible start and leave times, inform their employers about “We have a tremendous head of human resources designer for firm Kirkor as well as the ability to telethe benefits of altering their amount of capacity within Architects and Planners. the City of Toronto to commute for one or two days commute times. Speaking this month, redevelop our avenues as per work week, said the place“Peak times are the most approximately $10 million in “We could show that if you Butterworth said the type very livable urban places,” ment agency’s head of human difficult time to add service,” new service costs. get on a bus or subway at a of European-style developKeesmaat said. resources. Sarah Samatas He suggested the TTC certain time you’re going to he said. ment Keesmaat envisions Butterworth said devel“You have to potentially buy get a seat, for example.” said said the company realized should consider a “twofor Toronto could create opers might be interested in giving employees options on new vehicles and hire more Upfold. “Customers can then pronged” awareness camnew creative opportunities building mid-level buildings when they come into work people just for those times. paign to educate riders and go back to their employers for designers. in areas near major tranat its location near the busy If you could get those people employers and called on the and say: ‘Gosh wouldn’t it He said such planning sit connections, but only intersection of Yonge Street to adjust their commutes, you city and province to review be great if I can make these would facilitate the transforand Eglinton Avenue made would have capacity to handle their current policies on comchanges.’ But we don’t have if they can make it work mation of certain suburban financially. for a more productive and less service load without adding mutes. plans in respect to influencing neighbourhoods into local “Why is anyone going distracted workforce. any service.” Giambrone said when employers.” “satellite cores,” walkable “What we find is people are Giambrone believes the While an advertising camto knock down a two- or he headed the TTC board urban areas with opportunithree-storey building just more productive when they TTC could save on the need between 2006 and 2010, the paign is possible in the future, ties for office and retail space to build six?” he said. “You don’t have a long commute for providing more peak or TTC had planned to run an Upfold said the TTC has no and connected via public and are not exhausted,” said rush hour service if riders were advertising campaign encourcurrent plans for one. really need to have make it transit to the downtown affordable to purchase the able to shift their commute aging flexible commute times. Samatas, however, encourSamatas. “We don’t want our core. Building with transit land and ensure there a reaemployees getting up at 5 a.m. times by as small an amount The campaign, however, was aged both the TTC and GO in mind would, according sonable return on it.” so they can spend three hours as either 30 minutes earlier never launched. Transit to educate ridership to Butterworth, ease preson a nail-biting commute.” or later. He said another way to about the benefits of shifting ~ with files from sure on the Toronto and Flexible commutes are “We’re in a perpetual budget encourage smarter commuttransit commutes. David Nickle

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ERIN HATFIELD ehatfield@insidetoronto.com It makes sense for SKETCH, an arts organization for homeless youth, and the Jim Fay Music Bursary to team up. Jim Fay was a traditional and roots musician who lived in Brockton Village. He died suddenly in October 2008. Fay was involved in Toronto’s music community, and he consistently encouraged others to foster their musical pursuits, so in honour of his memory his family and friends created the Jim Fay Music Bursary, which is handed out every year in December. To date they have awarded 12 bursaries. The friends of Jim Fay transferred the Bursary to SKETCH at the beginning of the year. “They looked around the content of SKETCH’s work and recognized it was well in line with what the bursary is doing or hopes to do,” explained Michael O’Connell, the Recording Studio Coordinator at SKETCH. SKETCH is a community arts initiative engaging young people who

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live homeless or on the margins. The program engages and educates that population in the arts. “SKETCH is a good administrator of the bursary because we deal

largely with the same demographic that the bursary has been set up for,” O’Connell said. The bursary aims to help youth who face systemic barriers in getting a job, sustainable housing or accessing a recording studio or computer to make recordings. “Youth in Toronto that face many barriers in terms of socio-economic, racial and gender identity, sexual orientation or because they are new Canadians and are having a hard time adjusting in Toronto,” O’Connell said. “The bursary does its best to reach those people.” The annual concert SHINE raises funds for the Jim Fay Music Bursary for Youth. This year’s line up includes The Beauties, Andrew Cash, Jimmy Bowskill, Michelle Rumball, Michael O’Grady, Chris Staig, Shelly Coopersmith and the 2012 Bursary Winners. It takes place Sunday, March 3 from 7 to 10 p.m. at Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St. W. Purchase tickets for $25 or make a donation to the Jim Fay Music Bursary at http:// shineconcert.ca

Artists sought to participate in juried art show this spring Organizers of the six annual Sunnyside Beach Juried Art Show and Sale are currently welcoming applications from all artists – juried art show applicants as well as performing artists and those with installation ideas. The application deadline is March 31 at 11:59 p.m. The show takes place May 31 to June 2. The Sunnyside Beach Juried Art Show and Sale is organized by Art Initiatives in the historic Sunnyside Pavilion. Art Initiatives is a non-profit organization – its core is comprised of a group of artists, art professionals and art lovers.

Since 2006, they have developed exhibitions, which have featured contemporary works by the Canadian artistic community and have presented the achievements of artists from abroad. The Sunnyside Beach Juried Art Show and Sale provides artists an affordable opportunity to exhibit, promote and sell their work in an outdoor environment along the lakeshore. The application fee is $25 nonrefundable payable by cheque or money order made out to Art Initiatives. Visit www.artinitiatives.ca for further details.

Celebrate with Splash’N Boots Windermere United Church is hosting a free children’s concert featuring Children’s Entertainer of the Year 2012 Splash’N Boots. The concert takes place during March Break, Sunday, March 10 at 2 p.m. at the church, 356 Windermere Ave., just south of Bloor Street West. Splash’N Boots has been hailed

UPCOMING “the U2 of children’s entertainment.” The duo landed a cross-Canada theatre tour “Roll Play Live Animal Party” with the popular children’s network. For further details, call 416-7695611 or email www.OpenToSpirit. org

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GTA realtors release mid-month resale housing figures Greater Toronto Area realtors reported 2,823 sales through the TorontoMLS system during the first 14 days of February. This result represented a decline of 8.3 per cent compared to the same period in 2012. “The number of transactions was lower for most home types in comparison to last year, but

so too was the number of new listings. This means that market conditions remained quite tight, especially for low-rise home types. The result was continued price growth over last year,” says Toronto Real Estate Board President Ann Hannah. The average selling price for TorontoMLS transactions in

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>>>from page 1 away as the Netherlands, the US and the UK. “I don’t think they really count,” said the councillor. The remainder came from Toronto residents, however, presenting the petition “was all I could do,” admitted Doucette. Will it likely have an impact on saving the beloved trees? “Not at this late date,” said

Doucette. “The development has already been approved by the (Ontario Municipal Board) and the city.” Perhaps if the petition had been circulated during the period of public consultation hosted by the city and the developer, it would have had more of an effect, she said. To make room for the proposed 14-storey, 378-unit residential and

retail complex, the site that encompasses 1844 to 1854 Bloor St. W., 34 and 37 Pacific Ave. and 6 to 14 and part of 18 and 18A Oakmount Rd., has to be cleared. The long-abandoned houses were torn down. The trees remain standing at this point. They are not part of the nationally rare oak savannah that can be found in High Park, according to

Daniels’ senior manager of development Neil Pattison. Approximately one third of High Park’s natural environment is comprised of the rare oak savannah, which is an open, park-like landscape that includes widely spaced black oaks, scattered low shrubs and a variety of prairie grasses and wildflowers, according to the High Park Natural Environment Committee.

The city will allow trees to be cut down for a good development. city in difficult position The city is in a difficult position – it wants to protect trees, but developers have rights,” said Doucette. “You have to be logical here. You can’t go with your heart all of the time.”

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Speed of streetcar could be factor in increased noise >>>from page 1 The triangle of tracks is used as a turn-around, residents say. Yet, high traffic is not their concern. Starr said she isn’t sure if it’s a maintenance issue, but she has noticed the noise and vibration tends to increase if streetcars speed through the intersection. “When they go slow, it’s not so bad – it’s never going to be silent,” said Starr. “From my observation, speed is one of the factors. When they speed up, they make a ‘thugthug’ noise.” Starr is part of a group of neighbours who have banded together to form the ‘Residents

for a Quiet Ride’ to ensure the noise and vibration issue is resolved. TTC spokesperson Jessica Martin confirmed the public transportation agency was first made aware of the noise and vibration in January and sent its “track maintenance staff” out to investigate. The tracks were found in a “state of good repair,” she said, however, there was evidence of some wear and tear on the components of a “tailing switch.” “We took the opportunity to replace it because we had to dismantle the switch to investigate,” said Martin. Martin said weather impacts noise level too. In the winter, it tends to be louder than in summertime. Lubricant is used in particular areas to grease the tracks, however, this tends to take place in areas that are “loops,” such as the High Park loop, Martin said. Speed could be a factor, she added.

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The group ‘Residents for a Quiet Ride’ is in the midst of creating a petition to have TTC address the issue of increased noise and vibration along streetcar tracks.

“We’ve sent an inspector to look at that,” she said. Christina Ramos has lived in the neighbourhood for the past 40 years. She agrees that since last year, the noise has become problematic. The streetcar noise and vibrations “shake the house,” she said. “It’s very loud,” she said, describing the noise as a ‘clicking’ sound.

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Her neighbour, Rohan Walters, can take credit for initiating the Residents for a Quiet Ride. An architect, he designed and built his house at Lansdowne Avenue and College Street in 1996 to absorb vibration caused by the streetcar tracks. “I’m sensitive to the level of vibration,” he said. Walters recalls in 2000, the noise and vibration had increased and so he contacted the TTC at the

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World Day of Prayer Service WHEN: 10 to 11 a.m. WHERE: St. Pius X, 2305 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: marydifrancesco@ gmail.com COST: Free This is a multi-faith celebration for the World Day of Prayer, hosted by St. Pius X Church. The theme is ‘I Was A Stranger And You Welcomed Me’. This year’s service was written by the women of France. Thrift Shop WHEN: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Emmanuel Howard Park United Church, 214 Wright Ave. CONTACT: Megan Kallin, 416-536-1755, www.ehpunitedchurch.ca, hwrdprk@bellnet.ca COST: Items $1 and up Every Saturday at the church. Enter at south door closest to Roncesvalles Avenue. All proceeds go to outreach meals. Great bargains from only $1. Items include gently used clothes, shoes, dishes, and household items. Donations welcome.

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Greg Spence, a sometime transit advocate, said the TTC could improve existing service by adding more buses to its routes rather than committing to more expensive and lengthier measures. “Hard fixed rail lines are years in the distance,” said Spence. “Buses are flexible and you can have as many on the road as you need.” But Brad Ross from the TTC disagreed, saying more buses on the street would mean increased costs. Keesmaat said the findings of the participants reflected a common theme for all of the sessions, which also took place in York, North York and Scarborough, that it was imperative for the city to address capacity issues now and find a way to pay for new transit in an equitable manner. The city must report its findings from the commission to Metrolinx in time for the transit planning agency’s report to the premier on an investment strategy to pay for its long-term Big Move transportation plan. Keesmaat also announced the city will hold a special experts panel in March as part of the first phase of its transit consultations.

RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com At one of Toronto’s busiest intersections, Trinity-Spadina MP Olivia Chow called on the federal government to heed the demands of municipalities and fund infrastructure projects over the long term. Chow, the NDP’s transportation critic, said she will introduce a motion in Parliament this week seeking a long-term dedicated transportation plan for infrastructure and transit. Last Friday morning, she released the details of the motion, which was expected to be debated in the House of Commons as of Tuesday. Chow urged Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government to include infrastructure funding in the spring federal budget to take advantage of this year’s construction season. Not doing so, she said, could cost the national economy “thousands” of lost construction jobs. Chow said a bigger share of gas tax revenues would allow Toronto

to address major infrastructure woes such as the crumbling Gardiner Expressway and the overcrowded subway system. “We need a plan that will grow with the economy and the population,” she said. Chow, who took transit to get to the press conference, arrived a few minutes late saying she wasn’t able to get on board the 504 King streetcar. She tweeted pictures of the scene at Strachan Avenue to the west where riders stood by unable to get on the streetcar filled to capacity. Chow also invited federal transportation minister Denis Lebel to take a ride on transit with her during rush hour to see conditions firsthand. Responding to Chow, Lebel, in a series of tweets, said the federal NDP had voted twice in 2011 against making gas tax transfer payments permanent to municipalities. “The Harper Govt has delivered thousands of infrastructure projects that created jobs and economic growth in communities across Canada,” Lebel tweeted.

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