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The Harbord Village area has its own green plan thanks to innovative work carried out by the Harbord Village Residents’ Association (HVRA), Councillor Joe Cressy and two local BIAs. The plan will ensure there is an ongoing strategy in the area to not only maintain as much of the sparse green space in the neighbourhood as possible, but to also find new greening opportunities there. Sp a w n e d by c o n c e r n s expressed by the HVRA, the new plan will not only beautify the area, it will also help mitigate the heat island effect which sees temperatures rise in concretedominated urban areas and do a small part to combat climate change. “(The HVRA) reached out to me last spring and we decided to think creatively about how to go about enhancing the green space in the area,” Cressy said. “What we’ve come up with is a proactive plan that we can turn to every time, for instance, transportation works is doing repairs, or there are capital repairs or new developments.” >>>CONNECTING, page 7

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all aboard: About 60 people participated in the 15th anniversary of the No Pants Subway Ride on Sunday with proceeds raised going to Right To Play charity. For more photos from the event, see page 2.

Public input sought to improve Bloor Street East JUSTIN SKINNER jskinnner@insidetoronto.com A long-neglected portion of Bloor Street East is set to get

a makeover with the public invited to have their say on what they would like to see there. The City of Toronto is resurfacing Bloor from St.

Paul’s Square to Parliament Street in 2017, which makes it an ideal time to revitalize the sidewalks and public realm along that stretch of road as

well. At a public meeting at the 519 Community Centre on Monday, Jan. 11, councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, city staff >>>IMPROVEMENTS, page 6

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No pants? SOMETHING MISSING: The No Pants Subway Ride, staged by Improv Everywhere, was created as a prank with seven men in New York City and is now an annual tradition in cities across the world. According to http://improveverywhere.com, “random passengers board a subway car at separate stops in the middle of winter without pants. The participants behave as if they do not know each other” wearing all winter gear but pants.

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Robert Halley reads the paper during the 15th anniversary of No Pants Subway Ride on Sunday.

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Yorkminster Park volunteers deliver 12,000 hot meals and 20,000 frozen meals per year JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com For half a century, isolated men and women in the North Toronto area have had somewhere to go to ensure they always had hot meals delivered by friendly volunteers. The Yorkminster Park Meals on Wheels program turns 50 this year, and has grown to the point where a dedicated team of volunteers delivers some 12,000 hot meals and 20,000 frozen meals per year. Run out of Yorkminster Park Baptist Church with funding from the Ministry of Health and Metro Community Services for Metropolitan Toronto, the program offers a variety of regular and special-diet meals to roughly 280 clients. “We’ve been extremely fortunate to have a great team of volunteers who are very committed,” said Mary Carol Healy of Yorkminster Park Meals on Wheels. “They bring a hot meal, dessert and soup to people who often don’t have a way to go out and get meals for themselves,

especially in winter.” She added the program helps keep seniors and others to continue to live independently in their communities. Not only does the program bring its clients food, it also serves as an important point of contact. “To us, the security check is as important as delivering the meals,” Healy said. “Everybody gets a meal, and when our volunteers drop them off, they check in and make sure the clients are there and doing well.” That is crucial given Meals on Wheels’ demographic. The Yorkminster Park branch serves some 40 seniors over the age of 90 and two over the age of 100. When clients can’t be reached, volunteers contact Meals on Wheels coordinators, who then get in touch with building superintendents and, if necessary, emergency services. “Sometimes, people just forget they were having a delivery that day and go out, but one way or another we have to find them,” Healy said. “About once a year, our volunteers go to make a delivery and (a client) is on

About once a year, our volunteers go to make a delivery and (a client) is on the floor (in distress).

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Mike Devine, left, hands meals over to Colum Mcauley on Wednesday. Mcauley will deliver them to isolated seniors and others in North Toronto as part of the Yorkminster Meals on Wheels program.

the floor (in distress). If we hadn’t pursued it, they’d still be on the floor.” The program does not only serve seniors. Many of its clients have mobility issues, and some only use the service for a short time, for instance while recovering from a serious injury. Mike Devine joined the organization after spending years working with another Meals on Wheels branch. He enjoys being part of what he calls “an agency of action.”

“We get things done – people call up Meals on Wheels and we can get them started on the program right away,” he said. “It’s just great to be able to check on people and make sure they’re okay. Some of our clients don’t have relatives around and they don’t even know their neighbours, so the volunteer who delivers their meals may be the only person they see that day.” Fellow Meals on Wheels volunteer Ken McKenzie got

involved with the organization after his own mother used the program. “She was living in Niagara Falls and was starting to deal with dementia,” he said. “I didn’t know until she joined that Meals on Wheels does checks to make sure their clients are OK – if they couldn’t find her in Niagara Falls, they would call me in Toronto to check in.” He added sometimes clients just call in to chat and make some contact with

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other people. “It’s a great program for people who need the service,” he said. While Yorkminster Park Meals on Wheels has plenty of volunteers, the branch is constantly looking for new clients. It serves an area bounded by Lawrence Avenue to the north, St. Clair Avenue West and the CPR tracks to the south, Spadina Road/ Bathurst Street to the west and Mount Pleasant Road to the east, and isolated seniors or others who would benefit from the service are always welcome to call in. There is a fee to use the service, but Healy said those on limited budgets would have a portion of their fees subsidized. “Everybody pays something, but people who need help get help,” she said. For more information on Yorkminster Park Meals on Wheels, or to sign up for the service, visit www.ypmealsonwheels.com or call 416-482-0549.

Residents bowled over at new park announcement JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com While many midtown residents were concerned the sale of the Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club would result in a loss of green space, it’s turned out to be a big win for the community. The club itself shut down in 2013 and the property was put up for sale in 2014, putting a valuable parcel of open and green land up for bids. When a developer bought the land for potential townhouse development, it looked as though the potential park land would be no more, but at the behest of Ward 22 councillor Josh Matlow (St. Paul’s), the majority of that

land has been bought back from the developer. Now, four-fifths of the former lawn bowling site, at 196 Manor Rd. E. is being earmarked as a park, with the remaining one-fifth slated to hold a single townhouse. ‘Disheartening’ “It was very disheartening to see how the chair of the board (of the lawn bowling club) quickly moved to sell the land to a townhouse developer,” Matlow said. “But I and a large group of residents were quite resolute in protecting the green space for the community.” The newly acquired green space spans 1,138 square metres. That, coupled with

the acquisition of land from Manor Road United Church at 240 Manor Rd. E., will provide new green opportunities for midtown residents. Matlow said there were certainly times when it seemed as though the lawn bowling club’s land – and the opportunity to turn it into a public park – were gone for good. “It seemed quite hopeless to many for a long time,” he said. “But I made a point very early on of making it clear that if the land isn’t protected as a park, any developer would have a real fight on their hands with me and with the residents.” The acquisition of the

land meshes with the ongoing Midtown in Focus initiative, which seeks to devise a master plan to help guide development, public realm and infrastructure in the area.

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There’s so little green space left as it is because developers try to infill every last corner they can. – Councillor Josh Matlow

One of the key focal points of that plan is the preservation of green space in and around the Yonge and Eglinton area.

“There’s so little green space left as it is because developers try to infill every last corner they can,” Matlow said. “It’s hard to expropriate land, but this agreement allows us to protect and enhance our green spaces.” The councillor said there is no set plan as to what shape the new park will take, adding community consultations on the matter will give the public a chance to weigh in on what they would like to see there. Derek Tilley, a midtown resident who lobbied hard for the former lawn bowling club land to be preserved and kept as green space, said he hopes to see something

simple there. “It needs some benches and some shade, but I’m hoping for a quiet park, with the same kind of soft, gentle lighting the lawn bowling club used to allow members to bowl there after hours when the club was still running,” he said. Tilley added residents in the area were relieved to have the green space preserved, especially after it looked like townhouses were all but certain to be built there. “The entire neighbourhood is happy that this has been resolved with an outcome that’s positive for the neighbours and for the city in its ongoing goal to protect green space,” he said.

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ome mid-January, the post-holiday blues are in full effect as many have returned to their regular work schedule and the kids are back in school after time off. The festivities enjoyed just a couple weeks prior are nothing but a distant memory with the focus solely on surviving the winter that is now fully upon us. But what shouldn’t be so easily forgotten is all the goodwill Torontonians have shown throughout the Christmas season and the start of the new year. Charitable organizations as well as individuals who have requested for donations to be given to numerous worthy causes found their pleas answered. The numbers don’t lie. The North York Harvest Food Bank recently announced that it has hit its Winter Food Drive goal having raised $270,000 and 250,000 pounds of food. That’s enough to provide our view 750,000 meals to children and families in northern Toronto. Help those The De Sario family, who live near Keele Street and Sheppard who help Avenue, just tallied how much they raised with their annual others Christmas lights display consisting of 50,000 LED lights. Passersby opened their wallets during the month of December and the first week of January to the tune of nearly $16,000 for The Hospital for Sick Children. Across the city, residents and non-profit organizations also gave whatever the Syrian refugees who arrived in Canada this winter needed as they began to settle into their new adopted country. Embrace the challenge

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Mayor John Tory can take a lesson from Rob Ford on avoiding City of Toronto strikes Rob Ford caused his supporters a lot of grief over his term in the mayor’s office, but no one who voted for him had cause to complain about his mayoralty’s handling of labour relations. Unlike his two predecessors, Ford got through his tenure with just one strike: a short one, of library workers. Council under Ford’s leadership went so far as to end the possibility of work stoppage at the Toronto Transit Commission, convincing the province to turn the TTC into an essential service. And through it all: no garbage strike, no inside workers’ strike, nothing to trouble Torontonians’ summer holidays an iota. All other things being equal, this alone might have guaranteed the Ford family a key to the mayor’s office as long as they wanted. It was, after all, the discontent with the 40-day garbage strike presided

david nickle the city over by former mayor David Miller in 2009, that helped buoy Ford from his council seat to the mayoralty in 2010. The lesson – that job security for mayors and job security for garbage collectors can’t really coexist – was well-learned. It seems as though this too is the one positive lesson Mayor John Tory has taken from Ford. Because right before Christmas, just as Ford and his deputy mayor Doug Holyday did in their day, the new team asked for a labour conciliator just weeks after negotiations between the city and its outside workers began. This was a very effective strategy the last time the city used it. The conciliation process accelerates the timeline toward a possible

strike or lockout situation, making it impossible for the negotiators at CUPE Local 416 to time their work stoppage for the warm, potentially stinky, days of summer. That happens, and the city negotiators are under pressure from an increasingly exasperated public to settle. And politicians need to look no further than 2009 to understand the political cost of holding ground, as Miller and company did. Would matters be any easier watching garbage pile up in parks and parking lots in a mucky, rainy March? It’s likely we’ll never find out. With half the city’s garbage collection contracted out, there is a serious disincentive for outside workers to walk off the job when first, it’s damp, and second, nobody notices. That is likely why the city’s other major union, CUPE Local 79, held its

strike vote over the weekend. Toronto negotiators have so far not requested conciliation with its inside workers. And while they may have yet done so, as matters stood it would be easy to see a circumstance where both unions are negotiating contracts months apart from one another – so any labour disruption would only come from one element of city services and not both. But these are defensive maneuvers for unions that are in a losing battle with their employer. If Tory and council somehow find themselves facing a strike or ordering a lockout, Ford’s reliable if often off-base criticisms of his successor will finally have some real bite.

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Can We Do Conflict Better? Free Mediation Workshop WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. WHERE: Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton Ave. E. CONTACT: Nancy Lyon, 416-392-0511, ext. 225, www.centraleglinton. com COST: Free Come to this workshop to learn about how a neutral third party, a trained mediator, can assist you and another party to have a difficult conversation, restore a relationship, solve a problem or come to an agreement. Presented by Mardi Edelstein of Spectra Mediation. All welcome, please register. WHEN: 10 a.m. WHERE: TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W. CONTACT: 416-599-8433 COST: $29 Reel Talk: Sneak Preview focuses on the best Englishlanguage cinema of the year, from Hollywood galas to small-budget indies, art-house dramas to homegrown documentaries – and the screenings are previews of films not yet released. Kids Event: Camping Royal WHEN: 2 p.m. WHERE: Alliance Francaise, 24 Spadina Rd. CONTACT: bit.ly/1TSE5VZ COST: Free Children are welcome in Alliance

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Improvements could include more trees, bike racks, cycling opportunities >>>from page 1 and consultants spoke with residents in attendance to outline some early concepts. “One of our primary goals is to improve the pedestrian experience,” said Johanna Kyte, a senior project manager with the City of Toronto’s

Public Realm department. That could include everything from more trees to new street furniture and bike racks to planted bump-outs with greenery. There is also a solid opportunity to prioritize bike lanes as part of the resurfaced road.

Have your say on the future of the Gardiner Expressway A forum on the future of the Gardiner Expressway East and Lake Shore Boulevard East from approximately Jarvis to Leslie streets is set for Tuesday, Jan. 19. The public meeting will run from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at The Bram and Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St. just north of Bloor Street. An open house will begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by presentations at 7 p.m. Those planning to attend are asked to register at http:// gardinerexpresswayeastpublicmeeting5.eventbrite.ca Those who can’t make it to the meeting in person, but would like to take part can do so online at www.gardinereast.ca Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto are currently carrying out the Gardiner Expressway/Lake Shore Boulevard Reconfiguration Environmental Assessment and Integrated Urban Design Study.

“We’ll be taking a look at cycling opportunities,” Kyte said. “Our cycling unit is doing a study along Bloor Street, and their findings will inform our plan.” Improving the streetscape along Bloor Street East has long been front-of-mind for

the Bloor East Neighbourhood Association (BENA), who first approached Wong-Tam a few years back to express concern over cracked and broken tree planters in the area. “We were just asking if we could get them replaced, but instead the councillor offered

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that we could do more,” said BENA president Linda Brett. “She spoke with city staff and we had people from forestry and public realm come and do a walkabout with us.” That spawned broaderreaching consultations and high-level plans to make over Toronto Necropolis is a business name of Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries.

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She’ll be discussing what it’s like to run the market, deemed one of the best in the city. Take part in talking with Roscoe about the market’s past and future, the challenges in making it work, and

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the stretch of Bloor more fully. Consultants have sat in on BENA meetings to get a sense of local residents’ priorities, and a draft plan for the area is expected this spring, with guidance from comments gleaned from Monday’s meeting and from the public at large. Until a draft plan is in front of BENA, Brett said she could not say for sure whether all her organization’s goals had been met, including the removal of streetcar tracks along Bloor and a vastly improved tree canopy with planters that will allow them to thrive. “We’re still a bit confused as to the exact scope, but what we’ve seen so far is good as far as high-level plans go,” she said. Other local residents concurred, adding there are definitely portions of the plan that stood out as much-needed improvements. “I’m personally really excited to see cycling infrastructure along this corridor,” said Matthew Lattavo. Fellow resident Carlos Benzecri said he was most pleased to see tree planting become a top priority in the area. “It will help with drainage in an area where everything’s hard-surfaced at a time when the city’s water system is already overburdened,” he noted. Wong-Tam pointed out the streetscape improvements are part of a ward-wide plan to make the downtown area more pedestrian friendly, adding similar projects are in the works for Charles and Hayden streets. The councillor added the city would be borrowing ideas from the Bloor-Yorkville BIA as part of the streetscape improvements. “We want Bloor Street to be beautiful, and they’ve done great work over there,” she said. “We might not get granite sidewalks, but they have a lot of great ideas, so we’ll borrow from the design they have.” With a draft report due for the spring and work set to commence early in 2017, members of the public can offer feedback by emailing Kate Nelischer at knelischer@ toronto.ca or calling 416-3924360. The comment deadline is Saturday, Jan. 30.

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WHY DO I HEAR Connecting railway lands to the BUT NOT UNDERSTAND? lake with “threads of green” >>>from page 1 The plan looks at potential new planting opportunities on corners, greening opportunities in laneways, park and parkette upgrades and maintenance, in-ground planters that can double as traffic calming measures and more. “A key part of the project was to make sure there were elements that were not dependent on other people’s projects,” Cressy said. “That means seeing what we can move on right now. For instance, Margaret Fairley Park is in the final phase of a redesign, and there are opportunities for the BrunswickCollege Parkette on the northeast corner there.” Sue Dexter of the HVRA said the residents’ association has long been interested in combating climate change, having conducted a tree inventory and spearheaded a solar energy project and home energy retrofit program.

those threads instead.” Dexter noted that flanking properties – city-owned properties next to buildings on main streets – offer other opportunities for greening and for rest areas. She added that upgrading the area in that manner will offer plenty of benefits to residents and visitors to the area alike. “There’s concern with pedestrianization and crowding on the main streets, so there’s a lot of ways creating those little parks and resting spaces can ease life in the big city,” she said. “Years ago, we would have wanted to do something like that for aesthetic reasons, but now we see it as a climate necessity.” A link to the new Harbord Village Green Plan has been posted on both the HVRA website at www.harbordvillage.com and in the news portion of the councillor’s page at www.joecressy.com/ news

That all helps, but the lack of green space in the area made some problems seem insurmountable. “The big issue for us here is that there just is no green space,” she said. “We have Margaret Fairley (Park) which is 0.44 acres or about eight houses’ worth and then a postage stamp-sized playground on Brunswick.” She added that the HVRA is currently working on a “three Bs” project – birds, bees and butterflies – which aims to create a green network in the absence of large green spaces. That means taking advantage of every green opportunity, from plantings in laneways to creating new pinchpoint planters that are more than simply a single tree in a concrete box. “We’re trying to connect the railway lands to the lake with threads of green,” she said. “Instead of saying ‘we need a huge park,’ we’ll take

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Toronto groups to benefit from Ontario Trillium grants JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com More than 300 not-forp ro f i t s a c ro s s O n t a r i o will share $53.5 million in funding thanks to a new round of investment by the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF). The not-for-profits will be among the first to benefit from the OTF’s new

Investment Strategy, which was launched last year. The strategy takes a multipronged approach to investment, with funds seeding new initiatives, helping initiatives to grow, supporting capital improvements, and encouraging crosssector collective impact to tackle complex community issues. At a funding announce-

ment at Rose Avenue Public School last week, OTF board chair Janet Yale spoke of the impact the donations will have on communities. “This is the first time we’re doing our granting under our new model of granting that was announced and launched last spring,” she said. “We’re going to be investing in 326 initiatives that are

Help decide the future of the Gardiner Expressway East We invite you to join us at an upcoming public meeting where you can comment on the results on the evaluation of the alternative designs for the Hybrid option for the future of the Gardiner Expressway East. The Study Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto are jointly carrying out the Gardiner Expressway / Lake Shore Boulevard Reconfiguration Environmental Assessment (EA) and Integrated Urban Design Study. The EA will determine the future of the Gardiner Expressway East and Lake Shore Boulevard East, from approximately Jarvis Street to approximately Leslie Street. The Hybrid option was endorsed by Toronto City Council as the preferred alternative for the Gardiner Expressway East on June 11, 2015. The upcoming public meeting will present the results on the evaluation of the alternative designs for the Hybrid option, as well as urban design concepts for the study area.

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going to benefit about a million people in Ontario, and that’s just our first round of granting.” Rose Avenue students The announcement came with plenty of entertainment; Rose Avenue students played instruments and sang, their arts training having been supported by Inner City Angels and Mariposa in the Schools. As Toronto-based recipients of the OTF grants, Yale said those organizations and the work they do are “a great example of what we’re all about at the Trillium Foundation.” She added there are tangible measures to the OTF’s funding model, including 410,000 square feet of new space for arts and recreation, 210,000 square feet of renovated properties, and 300 kilometres of new trails across Ontario. Ontario Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport

Michael Coteau also spoke at the announcement, and said he was proud of the efforts of the OTF, which functions under the provincial government.

the $53.5 million in funding, using it to help expand its arts-based programming and roll it out in other parts of the city. “We are well aware that the purpose of this grant is to help build our leaders of tomorrow,” she said. Toronto’s OTF funding recipients cover more than just arts programming, with organizations up for funding including: • Covenant House Toronto; • the Alzheimer Society of Toronto; • the YMCA of Greater Toronto; • Toronto Park People; • Social Planning Toronto; • the North York Seniors Centre; • Food Forward; • and Polycultural Immigrant and Community Services

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“We know that the partnerships that take place between our not-for-profit community-based organizations, the private sector, our schools and government are keys to ensuring that we have ongoing achievement within the (not-for-profit) sector,” he said. Inner City Angels executive director Jane Howard Baker noted that her organization would benefit greatly from its $150,000 share of

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Insurer steps up for Uber MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com UberX drivers in Toronto, criticized for not having proper insurance coverage for passengers, may soon be able to get some. Aviva Canada says it will be the first company in the country to sell supplementary insurance to its drivers who ride-share for the money. “Ride-shar ing is not going away,” Glenn Cooper, a spokesperson for Aviva Canada, said last week. “Consumer demand drives this, just like anything else.” UberX dr ivers aren’t licensed by the city, but use an app to turn their cars into a rolling business. With an estimated 16,000 operating in Greater Toronto, said Cooper, “we knew there was a gap in coverage.” Last fall, Aviva Canada cancelled some policies for UberX drivers in Ottawa after their commercial use was revealed because, a company document stated, driving for Uber “is still considered commercial use and is unacceptable for personal vehicles.” Aviva’s position now is that most UberX drivers are ride-sharing part-time, and their add-on coverage, which the company hopes to offer starting next month, isn’t a commercial policy but covers driving done on a commercial basis.

The City of To r o n t o h a s announced a number of recommendations regarding the city’s taxi industry and the Uber ride sharing service. Staff photo/MIKE ADLER

Coverage is capped at 20 hours a week – drivers will be asked if they plan to drive zero to 10, or 11 to 20 hours with Uber – and could cost as little as $500 per year, Cooper said. Licensed taxis in Toronto are required to have commercial insurance. The city, after trying unsuccessfully in court to shut down Uber within its jurisdiction, is working on new regulations to cover both taxicabs and ride-sharing drivers. Cooper said Aviva is not taking sides, but is hoping this will help municipalities make decisions on how to deal with ride-sharing services. “If ride-sharing is outlawed, then we would adjust accordingly,” he said. Uber has said its drivers are covered by a $5-million insurance policy, but members of the taxi industry and politicians have questioned whether this covers passen-

gers or meets Ontario regulations. Asked whether Uber Canada would recommend such supplementary insurance to its drivers, Susie Heath, a spokesperson, said Uber hasn’t seen details of the new Aviva policy. “We are encouraged to see a growing number of Canada’s insurers show interest in innovation in the transportation space,” Heath added Wednesday. “We remain committed to working with insurance companies and regulators across Canadian jurisdictions to quickly offer viable insurance products that embrace ride-sharing.” Scarborough-Agincourt Councillor Jim Karygiannis, a critic of Uber and vice-chair of Toronto council’s Licensing Committee, said such a policy still needs approval from Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa and Transport Minister Steven Del Duca.

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Uber Canada will resume its carpooling service in Toronto this week, the company has confirmed. UberPool was launched on a trial basis during last year’s Pan Am Games. Over the two-week period in July, fares could be split between two riders headed in the same direction. And with costs to the user ending up 30 per cent cheaper than UberX – Uber’s controversial private taxi service – it was only a matter of time before the carpool option became permanent. UberPool will be available in wide swathes of the city, although suburban areas are largely excluded. Only two riders per ride can take advantage of the fare-splitting option. HOLDS DAVENPORT MEETING wMETROLINX

Metrolinx will hold a public meeting in Davenport to discuss its planning study for an overpass to separate local rail traffic. The provincial transit planning agency has come

rahul gupta TO in TRANSIT under fire for its proposal to build a rail bridge for Barrie line GO trains, which opponents fear will have the same effect as placing the Gardiner Expressway in their neighbourhood. The meeting is 6:30 p.m. Monday at the DavenportPe r t h Ne i g h b o u r h o o d Centre. LAYTON FERRY TERMINAL update wJACK

Waterfront Toronto will provide an update on plans to renovate the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal. A new vision for the ferry terminal and surrounding Harbour Square Park was the focus of an international design competition held in 2015, won by a partnership made up of local architectural firms KPMB and Greenberg Consultants, and West 8 from the Netherlands. The winning proposal

entails a terminal roof made of wood and topped by parkland – a far cry from the current concrete structure. Waterfront Toronto will reveal an update of the winning design at a Jan. 26 meeting at the Brigantine Room in Harbourfront Centre starting at 6:30 p.m. TO DISCUSS FUNDING at bathurst wTTCRIDERS

TTCriders will take their message of better transit funding directly to the transit commission’s customers during a public event this week. On Friday, members of the transit advocacy group will take to Bathurst station between 1 and 3 p.m. to lobby riders about the TTC’s cash flow woes. This month, the TTC increased cash and token fares, and the group said it is fed up with what it sees as a lack of government support. Rahul Gupta is Metroland Media Toronto’s transit reporter. His column runs every Thursday. Reach him on Twitter: @TOinTRANSIT

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Tory tackling traffic flow In an effort to ease traffic congestion across the city, Mayor John Tory announced new measures to improve flow, including plans to deal with 10 “hot-spot” intersections, during a press conference last week in North York. “People are going to see action on this,” Tory said. “It’s a serious problem.” The plan is made up of a series of initiatives, including: develop and implement action plans for 10 congestion ‘hot-spots’ across Toronto. These action plans could include the following. • Signal re-timing, reengineering the roadway or intersection, and other measures to reduce delays • Develop a comprehensive curbside management strategy to respond to competing demands for curb space from vehicles such as delivery trucks, taxis, cyclists, motorcycles and transit vehicles, through measures that could

include off-peak delivery programs • Pilot an upgrade of the city’s “smart” traffic signal system in late 2016/early 2017 so that it can adapt to real-time traffic volumes and allocate more “green time” to keep traffic moving • I n i t i a t e a Tr a f f i c Assistance Personnel (TAP) pilot that would use dedicated Toronto Police staff to direct and manage traffic at busy intersections • Develop a Road Safety Strategic Plan using city data and international best practices to keep pedestrians and cyclists safe and reduce traffic fatalities. ‘Hot spots’ To r y, w h o m a d e t h e announcement at one of the “hot-spots” at the corner of Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue, said the city has used third-party vehicular probe data to pinpoint the 10 most congested intersections in the city. They are:

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