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First Nations School of Toronto relocating and expanding Tara HaTHerly thatherly@insidetoronto.com The First Nations School of Toronto is finally getting a new home where it can expand to include high school grades. Toronto District School Board (TDSB) trustees voted unanimously to finalize approval for the move to Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute during the board’s regular meeting Wednesday, Oct. 26. “This is a really historical day for Indigenous education in Toronto, and indeed in Ontario,” said EtobicokeLakeshore Trustee Pamela Gough during the meeting. “As far as I know, it is the first time that the needs of urban Indigenous people in Ontario have been recognized in giving them a full Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12 school.” The school, which currently only goes up to Grade 8, is at 935 Dundas St. E., a space it has outgrown.
Along with being larger, the new location at 16 Phin Ave. is near a subway stop (Donlands), which makes it easier to access. “It’s poised to serve a much, much greater community, and to have space to conceive of ways of delivering education, of co-creating learning, and really allowing us to be innovators in Indigenous education with the community in a way that wasn’t there before,” Toronto-Danforth Trustee Jennifer Story told Metroland Media following the vote. “It’s an incredibly exciting opportunity in front of us, and it’s the beginning of the journey, it’s not the end. We have a lot more work to do, but I think everyone’s looking forward to it.” Work will now get underway to develop a curriculum for the high school grades and prepare Eastern Commerce for the move. Students currently at Eastern Commerce will stay there until the First Nations School of Toronto
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Supt. John Chasty (left), Toronto-Danforth Trustee Jennifer Story and Principal Jonathan Kakegamic gather after Toronto District School Board trustees finalized approval for the move and expansion of the First Nations School of Toronto.
(FNST) grows to need more space in the building. The vote that approved the move also approved the permanent relocation of the Aboriginal Education Centre (AEC) to Eastern Commerce, where it recently set up temporarily after its previous location,
Brockton Learning Centre, was closed to make way for the relocation of Bloor Collegiate Institute. The AEC will provide a community hub for students at FNST, further enhancing their educational experience. Principal of FSNT, Jonathan
Kakegamic, said he’s relieved to have relocation and expansion plans finalized. “I think it’s a long time coming for the community,” he said after getting trustees’ stamp of approval. “I’m very excited at the possibilities and the opportunities that’s going to come from this.” Students could move to the new site as early as January 2017, with high school grades introduced in September of that year, starting with Grade 9. Plans approved in June 2015 that aimed to move FNST to Eastern Commerce by September of this year stalled when a review of the site showed it needed significant work and funds to Indigenize – increasing natural light, and creating cultural celebration and gathering areas, among other renovations. The TDSB then began exploring building a new school somewhere else in the city. A proposal to build the school in the West Donlands
area, on a vacant parcel of land reserved for the TDSB, however, was scuttled following a study and community consultations. Members of FNST expressed that moving the school to a new location as quickly as possible was more important than ensuring a relocation site was perfectly Indigenized. Plans then switched back to moving the school to Eastern Commerce, where it could immediately begin expanding. School Superintendent John Chasty told Metroland Media it’s important Canadians act on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations, which include increasing support and opportunities for Indigenous education. “I think what this does is it starts us on our journey as allies on the road to recommendations addressing reconciliation,” he said. “It’s a first step in working with the Indigenous community in the City of Toronto, and it’s a big step.”
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Watching where you commute Control centre relies on camera feeds, automated software to improve traffic flow
RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com Inside a control room, located in a nondescript East York office building, a small team watches the city’s traffic unfold. The group of traffic watchers, called operators, monitors feeds from dozens of cameras posted at the city’s busiest intersections, logging major traffic incidents 24/7. The team also coordinates emergency road closures, dispatches maintenance crews and communicates advisories to the commuting public. On a gloomy October morning, traffic surprisingly moves well during the heart of rush hour. But even during this unusually calm period, the traffic control team logs 12 major incidents between 7 and 10 a.m., which is normally one of the busiest parts of the day, according to head controller Linda Lee. “That’s just part of living in a city that’s booming,” said Lee Thursday, Oct. 20, during a tour of the traffic control centre. “When we look at our downtown cameras, it’s not just automobiles but lots of cyclists and pedestrians.” Cameras capture traffic at expected hotspots like the Gardiner Expressway and the Don Valley Parkway. Feeds are
also centred on Allen Road, Eglinton Avenue - more than 190 in all, capturing action in real-time. The operators, contractors to the city, not only monitor traffic but also learn how to dispatch service. They undergo three months of training, learning how to operate the cameras, and familiarizing themselves with various locations. Each feed can be accessed by punching a four-digit code. Feeds starting with ‘8’, for example, reference expressway locations. “It used to be we could ask an operator to bring up a (feed) and it was simple, but it’s a little more difficult because we’ve got so many cameras now,” she said. “Now it’s hard to remember them all.” From the control room, operators can also make traffic signal-timing changes to improve flow. The process can also be automated, with the system making predictive changes based on detectors measuring the level of traffic. Operators can also favour traffic signals at certain routes at the expense of others to even out traffic flow. Over 300 current signals have the adaptive technology, according to Lee, with more to come. The city has also under-
taken re-timing its traffic signals, something which started back in 2012. Lee says a review has been undertaken of signal times at major arterials to improve the timing of traffic off-sets, so that there’s minimal waittimes between a succession of signals. All of the city’s 2,300 signals are scheduled for retiming, with 939 completed at major routes. But re-timing is expensive, with one installation costing as much as
$160,000 and regular maintenance $15,000 a year. Lee admits it’s hard to explain to the public why some traffic lights take forever to turn green while others turn much faster. A major intersection with multiple left-turn lanes, for example, will drive up the amount of time before the light changes. And for the signals to be coordinated, they all have to have the same “cycle length”. The
spacing between lights is another factor, not to mention whether there are transit signals for TTC vehicles on the route. Sometimes, the detectors can be damaged through construction, causing the traffic signals to cycle without any apparent rhyme or reason. The team monitors the communications of the traffic signals and dispatches a maintenance crew in case anything is off. In some cases
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The City of Toronto’s Traffic Control Centre on Don Mills Road is a hub of activity during the morning rush hour, as operators keep close watch on traffic flow.
there is daily monitoring, but in less busy areas that drops to weekly. Lee says the value of the program comes from being able to easily coordinate a response to an incident. For example a disabled vehicle creating a massive traffic pileup can be more quickly diffused and authorities dispatched if it appears on a camera feed. The control centre also tracks response times and reviews with the pertinent authorities how to improve them. Analysis of traffic patterns also takes place, although Lee admits without the proper software, it’s not possible for a deep-dive into the information just yet. She’s hopeful new software ordered for the control centre will be able to provide automated suggestions to deal with a specific incident. “Right now if an incident happens, our operators need to find the camera feed and then determine if messages have to be changed on an electronic road sign,” she said. “The advanced system on the way will provide suggestions on what to post and where to post it based on where the closure. It makes the process more efficient.”
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t has been just a little over two years since John Tory became Toronto’s fourth mayor, and there are certainly reasons to celebrate. Tory was, after all, elected in 2014 as an antidote to the awful toxicity of Toronto City Hall under the stewardship of his predecessor, the late Rob Ford. And he has filled that role admirably and well – rising well above what was frankly a very low bar for civility and professionalism set by Ford. Having reached the halfway point of his first term, Tory can be satisfied in the fact that he has brokered an effective peace, or at least détente among Toronto OuR ViEW Council’s often warring factions, forging a strong voting Tory’s support bloc of centrist and conservaof infrastructure tive members of council. has forsaken many of projects meant theHeless savoury dog-whistle rhetorical positions that have to keep peace blurred council debates in the past (anyone remember the “war on the car?”) and shown a willingness to compromise in a way that occasionally crosses the ideological divide with council’s left wing. That has generated much good will. But good will comes at a cost, and over the remainder of the term and beyond, Torontonians will be paying that cost. To make peace in the city’s east end, Tory has stubbornly maintained solidarity with the ruinously expensive single-stop Scarborough subway plan. To please the north and the west, he backed another gold-plated infrastructure project, to maintain an elevated highway at the east end of the Gardiner Expressway against the good advice of city planners but according to the wishes of suburban motorists and their representatives. He and council largely avoided making hard choices in the term’s first two budgets and may well be headed toward a cliff on the third in 2017 - again, in the interest of peace and compromise. In all this, Tory has shown himself to be a goodnatured and collegial Torontonian with the city’s best interests at heart. It’s a good thing that he has the remainder of the term to demonstrate the ability to manage the peace that he’s forged.
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Transit financing deal before council next month could be too much for taxpayers Is it possible that it’s all too much, this suddenly tiny transit expansion plan? That is certainly an impression that one might take reading City Manager Peter Wallace’s report on a costly deal with the provincial government for building and managing the vestiges of Mayor John Tory’s SmartTrack heavy rail and former Mayor David Miller’s Transit City light rail plans. To begin with, the plans are tiny compared with their visions. Tory’s SmartTrack heavy rail plan now drops from 22 stations promised in the election to just six stations, and crucially is to be delivered by 2026, not as he promised within seven years. The old Miller light rail plan has been diminished for some time, resurrected as it was after the late Mayor Rob Ford “killed” it in 2010. But now the lines on Eglinton, Finch and Sheppard Avenue which were originally understood to be
david nickle the city operated and maintained by Metrolinx will be run by the city-owned Toronto Transit Commission. The Eglinton Crosstown LRT will cost $80 million; Sheppard will cost $38.1 million; Finch West, $51.5 million. SmartTrack is expected to cost another $40.5 million to operate. Which is peanuts, compared to the capital spending the city will have to do to cover the costs of the SmartTrack expansion. The city will need to finance debt to the tune of $2.01 billion of the $3.72 billion cost (which includes the cost of the Eglinton West LRT). The city can finance that through a mix of tax increment financing, development charges, and eventually, the equivalent of a property tax increase as high as three per cent.
And in case one thought that might be all – Toronto will, under the agreement, begin contributing $20 million a year over three years to GO Transit’s own capital expansion program. That’s a lot to digest. And it doesn’t include the cost of building the one-stop extension of Line 2 to the Scarborough Town Centre, which will add another $3 billion to the city’s debt, or the eventual cost of the downtown relief subway line – identified by the TTC as essential to deal with growing congestion on the Yonge subway Line 1, which could cost in the neighbourhood of $7 billion. Toronto Council will have to make a call on the deal next week at its November meeting, and it’s an unenviable task. Toronto does need better transit, and has for years, and this costly plan seems to be the only route to actually creating it. The trouble is that some
of the biggest spends in this expensive list don’t match that well with the most urgently needed transit infrastructure in the city. SmartTrack might be Mayor John Tory’s political priority; it is not, really, Toronto’s. And even the elements that do address priorities – the light rail lines through suburban North York and Scarborough – come with a surprising and politically unpalatable cost. Council probably can’t say no, in spite of those costs and misapplied priorities; if they do, it’s tantamount to giving up on city building, at least as far as partnering with the province is concerned. But councillors and the mayor will have a hard time convincing attentive voters that they’ve brought home anything like a win.
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Healey Willan Singers Women’s Choir Audition WHEN: 10:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Martin in-the-Fields Anglican Church, 151 Glenlake Ave. CONTACT: Ron Cheung, 416-5190528, www.healeywillansingers.com COST: Free The Healey Willan Singers women’s choir is looking for new singers (both sopranos and altos) to join the ensemble.
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In Conversation with a Holocaust Survivor WHEN: 2 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Bloor/Gladstone library, 1101 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: 416-393-7674 COST: Free Romanian Holocaust survivor Joe Leinburd will speak about his experience. Miraculously, his entire family survived a death march from Moghilev to Murafa and was liberated in 1944. After spending two and a half years in Displaced Persons camps, Joe and his wife immigrated to Canada in 1949. Poetry Saved Our Lives WHEN: 4 to 6 p.m. WHERE: Jane/ Dundas Library, 620 Jane St. CONTACT: Kara, 416-394-1014
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Jane St. CONTACT: 416-394-1014 COST: Free Practice for the Canadian Citizenship test, while enhancing your English reading skills. For landed immigrants and convention refugees, 19 years and older with LINC Level 4 and higher.
Toronto Swing Dance Society WHEN: 7:30 to 9:45 p.m. WHERE: Lithuanian Hall, 1573 Bloor St. W. CONTACT: http://torontoswingdancesociety.ca COST: Full series: members $40, non-members $60 West Coast swing lessons with instructor Julie Epplett. Beginners always welcome. No partner required.
Winterize Your Home WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-393-7521 COST: Free In this interactive presentation, guest speaker Greg Labbé of BlueGreen Group will talk about ways you can get your home ready for winter.
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Citizenship Education Mentoring Circle WHEN: 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. WHERE: Jane/Dundas Library, 620
Step-Parent Support Group WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavina Ave. CONTACT: www.consciouscoachinginc.com COST: Free Are you a step-parent or about to
become one? Step-parenting is a complex and unique form of parenting. Share your experiences and ideas, give and receive advice, vent or make new friends. Debate WHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave. CONTACT: www.debating.ca COST: Free Toronto Debating Society has debates on different topics each meeting.
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Hear Faigie (Schmidt) Libman’s story of strength, courage and survival WHEN: 1 to 2 p.m. WHERE: Annette Street Library, 145 Annette St. CONTACT: 416-3937692 COST: Free Hear Faigie (Schmidt) Libman’s story of strength, courage and survival during the Holocaust. Shout Sister Toronto South West WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. WHERE: Roncesvalles United Church, 240 Roncesvalles Ave. CONTACT: www. shoutsisterchoir.ca, COST: dues This all-inclusive women’s choir, which sings a variety of music, is looking for new members. They learn from recorded tracks. Come out for a
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Dufferin Grove Organic Farmers’ Market WHEN: 3 to 7 p.m. WHERE: Dufferin Grove Park, 875 Dufferin St. CONTACT: dufferingrovemarket.ca COST: Free Eat local and organic, year-round, at one of Toronto’s oldest farmers’ markets. Divorce 101 Workshop WHEN: 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavina Ave. CONTACT: www.consciouscoachinginc.com COST: $30 per session or $200 for eight weeks Thinking of getting a divorce or newly separated and don’t know where to start? Learn how to find the right lawyer, financial planning, deal with your ex and tell the kids. Learn the details nobody tells you and start the process on the right foot by being prepared.
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Helping homeless face the elements focus of campaign >>>from page 1 the temperature begins to drop. The Warm4Winter camp a i g n , c o o rd i n a t e d by Toronto Police Service’s 11 Division, is hoping to make the seasonal transition seamless for those in need. “There are a lot of disenfranchised people within the realm of poverty and some homeless that struggle to properly clothe themselves in the wintertime,” 11 Division Unit Commander Supt. Heinz Kuck told The Villager. “There’s hypothermia, people getting sick and you
have the homeless that are living rough, who do need an extra boost.” In its third year, the campaign has collected close to 3,000 pounds of clothing for the past two months. All the clothing will be delivered to the West Neighbourhood House ( WNH) and the All Saints Church-Community Centre. For WNH, donations are dropped off at both locations in Parkdale and on Queen Street West. It’s a community partnership the organization is grateful for, said Kaleigh Wisman, WNH communications coordinator. “The need for warm
winter clothing certainly exists. The donations have been fabulous,” said Wisman. “During the winter months we certainly see a spike in people asking for these sorts of items because a lot of people are either living on the street or streetinvolved in some way.” The campaign also features a ‘sleeping rough’ night: police along with community members will sleep outside 11 Division headquarters, 2054 Davenport Road, Friday, Nov. 4, 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. Participants will only have a sleeping bag, a ground sheet and a pillow for the
overnight sleep-out. “It doesn’t matter the weather conditions, rain or shine, sleet or snow it’s going to happen because it’s about experiencing that hardship for one night and making the effort of collecting clothing that much sweeter,” Kuck said. “There are reasons and circumstances that cause people get derailed from their path in life. And that’s when some of us have to step up as a good and caring society to do our part.” To donate gently used or new winter clothing community members can drop items off at 11 division headquarters.
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Toronto police 11 Division Community Police Liaison Committee co-chair Linda Martin, left, Toronto councillor Sarah Doucette, Toronto police Auxiliary Insp. Darren Lawrence, crime analyst Robert Tajti, Toronto police Supt. Heinz Kuck, Det. Stella Karras and Sgt. Harry Nijjar get set to bed down for the night outside the station during the division's previous Warm4Winter clothing drive and sleepover.
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Remember veterans at service Swansea Town Hall commemorates the men of Swansea who gave their lives in the First World War, and for whom Swansea Memorial Library was created. The Remembrance Day service, which starts promptly at 10:45 a.m., honours all who served in wars and peacekeeping missions. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Veterans, or those attending with a veteran, are asked to contact Swansea Town Hall at 416-392-1954 in advance to be identified during the service. The ceremony will be held on the front piazza, weather permitting, or in the Rousseau main floor in the event of rain. A reception follows the ceremony. All veterans and a companion may ride the GO train or GO bus for free on Nov. 11. GO Transit asks veterans to identify themselves by wearing their medals, berets, blazers or uniforms while travelling. Immediate family
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Roncesvalles resident heading back to Antarctica Carol Devine selected to participate in 20-day expedition
Lisa RainfoRd lrainford@insidetoronto.com Roncesvalles Village resident Carol Devine is one of 77 female scientists from around the world selected to participate in a 20-day expedition of Antarctica. A social scientist, Devine will be part of the Homeward Bound Project, a leadership and strategic initiative whose mission is to foster women’s impact in science with the goal of combating climate change and protecting the planet. The year-long program, which develops leadership, strategic and scientific skills while focusing on climate and biological research, culminates in the Antarctica expedition. This is not Devine’s first experience with the earth’s southernmost continent, on average the coldest, driest and windiest. Two decades ago, she was there to lead a civilian cleanup. “We knew then that the planet was in trouble, but not to the extent that it is today,” Devine told The Villager, recalling her inaugural visit as part of a Russian expedition and Canadian non-profit collaboration. Devine said she stumbled upon information about the
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Above, social scientist Carol Devine takes a selfie on her first trip to Antarctica. She is participating in a 20-day expedition to Antarctica in December with female scientists from around the world. On her first visit, she led a pilot clean-up project there in 1995 and co-wrote a book about the experience, that she helped launch at the East Pole Restaurant in New York last year.
Homeward Bound Project in the New York Times’ ‘Women in the World’ section. She fit the criteria as a woman in science and added to the diversity of participants who are in different stages of their careers - from Ph.D students to “advanced change-makers,” Devine said. The expedition begins on Dec. 2, but Devine will depart Ushuaia, Argentina, the entry point for Antarctica, a few days earlier. With an interest in human rights, Devine says
she’s always had a sense of wanderlust. Growing up in northern Ontario, she also has a love of the cold and snow. “I read a lot about women explorers pushing boundaries. I just like stories of women doing extraordinary things,” Devine said, adding her mother, who went off to Japan to teach before she was born, has greatly influenced her life. After graduating with a Master of Science degree,
Devine first worked for the advocacy organization ‘Voices of Positive Women’, which supports women living with HIV/AIDS. Currently, she works for Doctors Without Borders as a humanitarian affairs advisor, writes and researches on the side. Her work with the international medical relief organization has led her to such countries as Rwanda, following the Genocide, Iraq, and Japan, among others. The mother of a 12-year-
old daughter and 15-year-old son, Devine said her family understands Antarctica is a passion of hers. “I hope to come home with much more knowledge; I’d like to have stories to inspire young women,” she said. “There are some really fantastic examples out there of how scientists, community leaders and innovators are doing great diverse things to create solutions for less carbon use and smart energy.” Specific areas of Antarctica
are among the most impacted by climate change on the planet. “It’s highly relevant to us because it’s one of two of the world’s refrigerators,” Devine said. Devine has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help with the $15,000 (US) amount each participant must raise (not including flights, insurance and accommodation en route). To find out more, visit http://bit.ly/2eFWid9
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Long-term strategy in the works >>>from page 1 ridor is just the latest community grievance against Metrolinx for the UP Express service. Residents have long expressed frustration for a litany of concerns with the four-stop line, from construction impacts to the fact the service runs diesel trains. Considering the list of complaints residents have had against UP over the years, DiNovo believes regular graffiti removal is a small ask, and is baffled why the agency can’t keep its commitment for cleaning. “Every step of the way it’s been kind of a struggle, a lot of struggle, on the community’s part without a lot of return on Metrolinx’s, sadly, even though I’ve met with the CEO many times over the years,” she said. “And now
where we are, the least they could do is clean off the graffiti now. That’s not much of an ask considering the demands we’ve made over the years.” DiNovo suspects the reason for the irregular cleaning is due to a budget crunch for UP, which was forced to cut fare prices to attract ridership. She said UP’s struggles are in part because Metrolinx failed to heed community concerns from the start. “The communication has always been one-way, and now the residents are paying for it. It’s predictable and it could have been prevented. We continue on hoping we’ll get a response,” she said. Echoing previous statements made by Metrolinx officials, agency spokesperson Anne Marie Aikins promised to have more details on
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Nicholson, senior city planner on the tour. He added a topic that kept coming up is the lower scale of the buildings and the architecture. He said it’s become a “great mix” that residents have come to love and don’t want to see lost in future development plans. “The fact that there hasn’t been a lot of development on Roncesvalles in the last several decades, and has been stable for the most part, is something everyone has become so comfortable with,” Nicholson told The Villager. “The trick is how you deal with something new coming in and how do you make sure it captures the critical physical elements that make it a comfortable street. That’s the kind of thing we’re trying to pull out of this walking tour.” It’s those elements that make Roncesvalles desirable, according to co-chair of the Roncesvalles-Macdonell
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through a variety of means: tax increment financing, development charges and additional revenue that could be the equivalent of a three per cent property tax hike. City manager Peter Wallace admitted to the committee that the financing arrangement isn’t ideal, but is the product of tough negotiation between city officials and the provincial government. “I believe there is an unfairness for Toronto,” said Wallace, of the provincial government’s approach to transit operating funding in the city. “As a matter of philosophy, I believe that strongly. But this isn’t philosophy. It’s a negotiation.” The transit network agreement also omits other key transit projects in the city, notably, the Scarborough subway extension, the Eglinton Avenue East light rail line and the downtown relief subway line. Toronto’s chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat noted both projects are underway, but the downtown relief line has been set back six months after
council asked staff to examine other alignments. The committee was unanimous in its support, but councillors attending the meeting were aghast that the deal effectively leveraged the city into covering costs normally borne by GO Transit. “Today all the outstanding transit costs with GO are now on the table for us to pay,” said Beaches-East York Councillor Janet Davis. Parkdale-High Park Councillor Gord Perks was worried the deal excluded both the downtown relief line and the spur of Eglinton’s light rail line going east of Kennedy station. Mayor John Tory said that while a Hydro sale isn’t on the table now, it is almost certain that the city will have to raise revenue to pay for those and other projects. “We’re going to have a realistic, and frank, and open discussion about revenue options in a very short period of time,” he said. The matter will go to Toronto Council’s Nov. 8 meeting for debate.
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SmartTrack details are a letdown “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten rhetorically asks at the end his infamous punk band’s first (and last) full concert tour. It’s the same question transit watchers might be asking themselves when it comes to SmartTrack, Mayor John Tory’s ephemeral transit plan which received a harsh dose of reality this week. A delayed city report detailing the funding and cost breakdown for the transit plan was finally released to the public this week, ahead of a special meeting of the mayor’s executive committee on Tuesday. After that it goes to Toronto Council for final approval before being presented to the province in time for a Nov. 30 deadline. While campaigning for the mayoralty in 2014, Tory promised not only would the $2 billion-plus SmartTrack plan get built in seven years, the city’s financial obligations would be fully covered from borrowing against anticipated future tax revenues
RAHUL GUPTA TO IN TRANSIT assessed on development along the new transit corridor. SmartTrack has received commitments from both the province and the federal government for financial support, but the city manager’s report finds Tory’s financing scheme won’t yield the revenue projected, meaning in addition to development charges, it will take a property tax hike of at least 2.1 per cent to pay for the municipal share of the plan. And of opening the line in seven years as Tory repeatedly pledged on the campaign trail, the city is budgeting for construction expenses past 2026. Plans change of course, and Tory has been clear since his election that many details about the plan will change. And he should get credit for the initial vision of leveraging the province’s own planned
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GO Transit expansion to create a local expansion of the service. But like the $3.2 billion one-stop Scarborough subway extension, it’s fair to ask whether committing that much public money is worth it given the payoff essentially six new GO stations for Toronto and future extensions of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT - is unlikely on its own to deliver the transit transformation Tory and champions of SmartTrack have long promised. Tory’s response thus far is to accuse his critics of having no plans themselves. But what’s worse, no plan, or a plan with more questions than answers? It could well be SmartTrack ends up delivering on what its architects promised. Right now, transit watchers can’t be blamed for feeling let down by what’s been committed to thus far. Rahul Gupta is The Villager’s transit reporter. His column runs every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT
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