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Three issues stood out at otherwise calm City Hall 2015 newsmakers: the budget, Gardiner and Uber DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com By the standards of the years before it, 2015 was not much of a year at Toronto City Hall.

Mayor John Tory’s first year in office certainly had none of the high-stakes drama of his predecessor Rob Ford. There were no drug scandals, conflict of interest trials or council coups. For the most part, 2015 was the year that council absorbed itself in the relatively straightforward work of governing the city.

That doesn’t mean that there weren’t stories to tell in 2015; far from it.

The year may have spared us an ice storm, but it was cold enough to freeze pipes in basements across the city. We might have missed out on making an Olympic bid, but we played host to the Americas in the Pan Am

Games.

Here are three major stories that came out of Toronto City Hall in the year that was 2015. how to make up an shortfall w$86-million

In January, Mayor John Tory’s first budget very nearly fell off the rails, when the provincial government announced it would be phasing out a “pooling” subsidy for social housing that suddenly left an $86-million hole in the previouslybalanced budget.

The announcement set city staff and politicians scrambling looking for a solution. They considered borrowing from a financial institution to cover the costs, after talks with the provincial government to help the city over the transition effectively broke down.

Finally, city staff came up with a plan to effectively

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Toronto taxi drivers stage a protest which started at Toronto City Hall and crawled its way to Queen’s Park, demanding the two levels of government regulate the ride-sharing business.

borrow the money from itself — pulling money from future capital funding that would have gone into road repairs.

Tory promised that the city would repay this in part from efficiencies that staff might find over the year.

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over from 2014, when city staff and Waterfront Toronto had presented engineering reports that it made the most sense economically and in terms of city building to tear down the eastern portion of the Gardiner Expressway and widen Lakeshore Boulevard there.

Councillors in the city’s downtown agreed, and pushed hard for the Gardiner tear-down option.

Tory and a small majority of councillors felt otherwise, however, and in the middle of the year voted to simply shift the elevated highway to allow for more development. drivers battle uber at city hall wtaxi

A convoluted story of disruptive technology and taxi drivers both, Uber-X’s incursion into Toronto’s livery marketplace sent shockwaves from one end of the year to the other.

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Eventually the issue collided with Uber X, the ridesharing app that city lawyers had tried and failed to shut down through the courts.

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Mayor John Tory’s priorities for 2016 are transit, traffic, housing and jobs. Mayor Tory sat down with The City Centre Mirror reporter David Nickle to take a look back at the year that was, and a look ahead to next year.

Mayor’s 2016 priority: making Toronto run better DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com

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t’s the day after the launch of the 2016 budget process — really, the first full budget of Mayor John Tory’s term — and it’s fair to say the mayor is feeling the sting of his critics. The budget is not quite balanced — councillors will have to find $23 million in savings to just hold the line at inflation for property taxes, and find another $67 million if they want to keep the promises of service enhancements that council and the mayor have made through 2015.

As Tory sits down for his end-of-year interview with The City Centre Mirror, the bristling is barely noticeable.

“It is the beginning — I have been working on it for months and this is the beginning of the process that is continuing,” says Tory. “We have eight weeks of hard work ahead.”

Indeed, as 2016 unfolds, fixing the city’s budget and dealing with the city’s finances will be the first of a series of big jobs that Tory hopes to complete, to eventually make more sense of the mayoralty that Tory began just over a year ago on the heels of the tumultuous Rob Ford mayoralty.

In many ways, Tory’s year in 2015 was about restoring calm to an office

that had seen a bit too much tumult.

Polling data may have told Tory that transportation and public transit are the biggest issue, but he says that in conversation, Torontonians are most grateful for the simple stability of a mayor that if anything tacks to the dull side.

‘Balanced’ “The number one thing they raise with me every day is how happy they are that I’m conducting the job in a responsible and balanced way,” says Tory.

“It’s not just about not engaging in bad behaviour — but they also see that my comments on television are balanced. They see that I’m prepared to take into account the other side.”

Tory would like to be understood in this way: as a balanced, evidence-based politician who steps outside of the world of partisan politics that he himself once inhabited.

He offers up evidence to that, in talking about one of the major debates at Toronto Council in 2015, over what to do with the eastern portion of the Gardiner Expressway.

Tory advocated strongly against tearing that section of the highway down and instead building a ‘hybrid’ elevated highway — and in

the end, he prevailed.

“Once the vote was over I could have said I won that vote, that’s that, let’s get on with building it,” he says.

“The first thing I did was to ask my staff to sit down with all the people that most vehemently opposed the position I took and ask them how we could make the so-called hybrid much better.”

The result? Tory says that the modified hybrid is an improvement on the original plan, and what had begun as a relatively narrow victory at council — he only won by 24-21 votes — has turned into a much broader consensus.

Uber issue He admits that consensus was not always the result of what he termed an honest approach to issues.

Taxi and limo drivers took Tory’s name in vain in early December when they blocked thoroughfares to protest the city’s slow action in curbing Uber-X drivers who collect fares via the unregulated Uber app.

Tory has taken an agnostic approach to the issue — along with council directing staff to find a way to bring Uber-X under the city’s regulatory regime and acknowledging that apps like Uber will likely remain.

“The truth is that when I said they’re here to stay

it wasn’t a statement in favour of Uber — it was simply a statement of reality,” says Tory.

“They may not like the truth.”

Going forward, Tory is bracing himself for dealing with more reality.

Early in the new year, he and council will be shown reports on the efficacy of two inter-related transit projects: the extension of the Bloor-Danforth subway into Scarborough, and Tory’s own SmartTrack.

Tory has been steadfast in his support of both projects, despite questions being raised about both the expenditure and the engineering possibilities.

On SmartTrack, he acknowledges that there will be engineering problems — particularly in the western portion of the cityspanning project, where there are no existing rail lines.

“The studies will come early in the winter — and why would I have bothered to go through the time and money, especially the time, of having those studies done if I didn’t want to pay attention to what was said?” he says.

“We’ll see what the study says and make adjustments if necessary. But there will be a smart track that will run from the Mississauga Corporate Centre through downtown and out to

Markham. Can I tell you how many stations? No I can’t. But I put forward a proposal and it’s going to be a transformative transit project.”

On the Scarborough Subway, Tory is anxious to take the discussion away from the one that his predecessor Rob Ford framed it as justice for Scarborough.

Tory also refutes critics in the development industry and elsewhere who maintain the ridership simply won’t be there to support a subway.

“The jobs will eventually develop in the Scarborough Centre and that’s going to be a good thing for Toronto,” says Tory. “And I’ve always said that my solution on transit should be a balanced solution that includes everything. It isn’t subways, subways, subways (as former Mayor Ford put it). It’s subways, LRTs, buses, bicycles, cars and trucks.”

Tory says he hopes by the end of 2016 to have all of the necessary approvals in place to move forward on SmartTrack and the subway project.

He is also hoping for some movement on dealing with Toronto’s public housing repair backlog and the creation of new affordable housing, with the help of the new federal government.

“We had set targets for

affordable housing and missed them by a mile,” he says. “I hope we can get back closer to keeping those targets and over time catch up.”

Overall, says Tory, his priorities for 2016 are “traffic and transit and housing,” and also creating jobs.

Infrastructure As well, he will be moving forward with his plan to extend the Scarborough Subway levy into a 0.5 per cent annual levy to pay for infrastructure — one of what could be several new revenue tools to help the city deal with its long-term capital project backlog.

“I would like you to say to me next year, and say well last year we sat here and discussed theoretically the levy, and discussed the budget which wasn’t yet completed, and you sit here and tell me that the city is better off both short term and in terms of its budgeting process and how it’s running itself, and that we’re achieving the kinds of efficiencies that I didn’t quite achieve this year, and you can also tell me that the longterm financial picture is better,” he says.

“I hope I can look at you and say yes, both of those are substantially better measured by numbers, and not by my saying so.”

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t’s the eve of 2016. We’re all a year older and hopefully a little wiser.

From the moment we’re born we begin to age.

We’re cradled, we crawl, we stand, we walk, we run; always driven by our curiosity to know more, do more and be more.

But how much is too much? Are we experiencing real value in our lives living in this fast-paced culture of technology and responsibility?

We resolve to make changes, but most times these changes don’t stick.

New year’s resolutions seem to be destined to fail.

Maybe it’s because vowing to lose weight isn’t the real goal. But rather to be healthy and more energy to take care of our view have your family.

Instead of saying you’re going Aim for a to go on a financial diet, how reframing the thought. life of value about Resolve to spend money only on and balance the things that bring you the most joy. You’ll soon realize you’ll save more money and accumulate fewer things.

No one is asking you to come up with a grandiose plan for your future. But, of course, you could if you like.

But how about simply resolving to slow down your busy life a bit and reflect on what’s important to you.

Live a life of value and balance. Unplug. Increase face time with your favourite people. Find time to exercise.

Take in what you’ve learned in the last 12 months and build on the good and be grateful for the bad, because the adversarial experiences no doubt taught you the most.

We’re wired, tired and on the go non-stop. At least that’s how it must have seemed for many in 2015.

Let’s not say the same next New Year’s Eve. If there’s something you want to do in 2016, don’t think, just do. Push through toward your goals, one foot in front of the other, because baby steps count too.

There’s lots of great things that can be done in the coming year, including becoming more involved in your community or volunteering to help others.

The best way to make change is to be the change and that’s the best new year’s resolution you could ever make.

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Tory must address SmartTrack concerns If 2015 was simply about righting the ship of state in Toronto and restoring civility to civic life – and for many it was, as I argued in this space last week – the coming year is going to be a challenge for our new and agreeable city council.

Indeed, looking at the new calendar, everything contained in the promise (and promises) of Mayor John Tory and his new council is going to be put to the test.

There was a certain luxury to be had in the first year of this mandate, being able to set up not just the tone for a debate, but the factual basis for it.

So two of Tory’s signature issues – the SmartTrack heavy rail transit system linking Markham to Scarborough and the downtown, and then Liberty Village and Etobicoke and eventually Markham, and the continued construction of the Scarborough Subway – could move slowly and

david nickle the city inconclusively through committee and council, blessed by open questions for another day.

The day to answer those questions will come in 2016, probably sooner than later. Media reports have indicated there are problems with the implementation of SmartTrack, particularly in the west end where considerable tunnelling might be necessary. The question, until now avoided, of whether it makes sense to have SmartTrack run so near the Scarborough Subway extension, will need to be addressed, definitively.

Thanks to the new budget process, in which city finance staff don’t do the work of budget balancing but leave that to politicians, councillors will have to find ways to pay for $67 million worth of

programs that they cheerfully approved in 2015. The continuation of enhanced transit service, investment in poverty reduction strategies… something as simple as setting up safe ice-skating on Grenadier Pond… will all depend on the ability of councillors to make hard choices and take responsibility for their decisions.

The city is going to need more money in any case, and councillors are going to have to have another look at that list of possible revenue tools they so neatly rejected during the Rob Ford mayoralty.

In year-end interviews, Tory has made much of his indifference to ideology in his approach to governing the city and corralling council. It has served him well so far, and could serve him well this coming year.

But it might be a terrifying time. Ideology, for good and for ill, can work as a kind of road map for a politician faced with making a

firm decision to deal with a complex problem.

Without a notion of where one wants to be, it can be easy to confuse pragmatism with populism, to make a call that panders to a base rather than provides a solution.

That’s not to say Tory should return to his Conservative roots or sign a New Democratic Party membership card – pick shirts or skins in an oldfashioned Toronto council mud fight. But he and the rest of council should remember that over the next year and the ones that follow, there are going to be debates and decisions that together will shape both the city and the legacy.

Doing it right is going to require flexibility, and thoughtfulness – and in the end, a crystalline clarity of vision.

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A Baroque Start to 2016 with The Musicians In Ordinary WHEN: 2 to 4 p.m. WHERE: Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Ave. CONTACT: www.musiciansinordinary.ca COST: $30, $20 students and seniors The Musicians In Ordinary ease you into the New Year with first compositions by Baroque composers today and tomorrow at 8 p.m.

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Chief weighs in on challenges facing police in 2016 ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com Despite a rise in global terrorism, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders says there’s no credible threat against the city.

But the chief stresses that doesn’t mean all is well.

“It’s a different world right now,” he said in a year-end interview in December.

“We need to be more alert. We need to be more vigilant in our dayto-day processes if we want to keep the city safe.”

According to the 2015 Global Terrorism Index, there has been a dramatic rise in terrorism over the last 15 years with nine times more people being killed in terrorist attacks today than in 2000.

The report, released last month by the Institute for Economics and Peace, found that terrorism spread significantly in the past year, with attacks and fatalities in more countries than ever.

“We work on a provincial, national and international level. We’re in constant communication with law enforcement agencies around the world and we are kept up to speed

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Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders reflects on 2015, and looks ahead to challenges facing the Toronto Police Service in the coming year.

with information in real time,” Saunders said.

“We’ve got a very good machine when it comes to national security. ... I feel comfortable in knowing that if we do have to turn it on that we do have a good plan in place that will be effective.”

According to a CNN report earlier this month, ISIS has conducted or inspired at least 50 terrorist attacks in 18 countries that have killed 1,100 people and injured more than 1,700

others since June 2014.

“It’s always on the back of my mind,” Saunders said of a terrorist threat. “It’s not like we sit and wait for something to happen. There are things that are in the works on a dayto-day basis, 24 hours a day when it comes to national security.”

Saunders, a married father of four, was appointed chief in April, making history as the city’s first black top cop.

“If it serves as a role model for any member of the community, then it’s a good thing,” he said.

“I threw my hat in the ring because I was hoping to move the Toronto Police Service to the next level, the next generation of policing, and I have a particular vision in which I would like us to move in, so that’s the first and foremost reason why I was interested, and the history piece, I kind of stuck that more or less behind me, but I’m grateful that that’s how it has been considered.”

At his swearing-in ceremony, Saunders called the cost of policing an “urgent” issue and vowed to “examine everything we do” in an effort to find efficiencies.

A recently formed task force,

chaired by Saunders and Toronto Police Services Board chair Andy Pringle, will study ways to modernize the force, which has an annual budget of $1 billion.

“This task force is going to look at what we can do to transform the existing model, what we can do to modernize the model of policing to make sure that we can be even more effective and efficient,” Saunders said.

“Whether it’s looking at technology and using it to help us keep the city safe or it’s looking at the shift model in policing, how we can modify that to get the most out of the assets that we have, I think are some critical components.”

A 2011 efficiency report found that $35 million could be saved with a schedule change. There are currently as many officers on duty in the early morning hours as there are during the busy evening hours.

“It’s going to take a tremendous amount of research. It’s not a matter of making change for the sake of making change,” Saunders said of the task force. “We really have to be careful in the approach that we take to make sure that what we do is the right thing to keep Toronto safe.”

In May, Toronto police unveiled a body-worn camera pilot project involving nearly 100 officers.

Saunders said the project, which ends in March, is “going well” but wouldn’t reveal whether he thinks it should be expanded.

“I don’t want to promote too much of what my feelings are,” he said. “I’m going to look at the research and see what the research tells me.”

As of Dec. 21, there were 243 shootings involving 381 victims in the city in 2015, compared to 174 shootings and 231 victims at this time last year.

“We have to be careful because the connotation is that this is now a pattern and it’s on the rise. It’s only compared to one year, which is last year. Last year is a bit of an anomaly year,” Saunders said.

“Does it concern me that people are using firearms as a decision maker? You bet it does. It concerns me tremendously. And then the question is: What do we need to do to deploy our officers in the right areas at the right times so we can reduce that from happening? And that’s the process that we’re moving towards right now.”

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Currently, TTC fare policy only allows transfers for oneway continuous travel, with no stopovers or backtracking.

Despite having added the time-based transfers to the 512 line over 10 years ago, many riders had no idea the policy was in place until the TTC recently increased promotion of the service.

Although it has no plans to remove time-based transfers from St. Clair West, the TTC has also resisted expanding the policy because of an estimated $20 million hit to revenue, and no corresponding

Users of the Presto fare card will get a few more weeks to enjoy the use of time-based transfers throughout the TTC network.

funding support from other levels of government. staff report A 2014 staff report also found a time-based option could potentially save the TTC at least $15 million annually by reducing the improper use of existing transfers.

Ross said two per cent of TTC riders currently make use of Presto.

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Jonas Farlinger said her musical training certainly helped her both in terms of landing the role and then portraying Eva, but added that she needed to brush up on certain musical skills to really nail the role.

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“A lot of the roles I’ve played, I’ve been the precocious little sister,” she said.

“Eva’s a much more interesting character than that.

She’s in her second year at Lost & Found, but she doesn’t have many friends. She has a sheltered background and her parents are strict, so she doesn’t really have a lot of ways of keeping in contact (with her peers.)”

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Etobicoke School of the Arts student Ella Jonas Farlinger, 14, portrays sheltered singersongwriter Eva on the Family Channel’s, ‘Lost & Found Music Studios’, which premieres on the network Jan. 8.

active in the film scene, so she grew up in show business and was encouraged to pursue it if she so chose.

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After graduating from King Edward Junior and Senior Public School, Jonas Farlinger now attends the Etobicoke School of the Arts. It’s a bit of a commute from her Little Italy home, but the young actress wouldn’t change either her school or her home. “(Etobicoke School of the Arts) is a really great school for creative people,” she said.

“And my neighbourhood has such a sense of community, and everyone really gets along and looks out for each other.

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Photo/Allen Agostino 3. Residents gather Feb. 21 to remember Elijah Marsh, the toddler who died after wandering from his North York home.

Staff photo/Nick Perry 4. A dancer performs as a peacock during the Scarborough Tamil Festival Aug. 29.

Photo/Manny Rodrigues 5. Dylan Grisell, 20, leaps off the platform during Dive Ontario’s demonstration at Summerville Pool Aug. 13.

Staff photo/Andrew Lahodynskyj 6. Canada’s Jerret Llewellyn competes in the opening round of the Pan Am Games men’s waterskiing tricks competition at Ontario Place July 20. Photo/ Peter C. McCusker 7. Dog owners venture out into the cold Feb. 13 for a walk near Lake Ontario in Etobicoke.

Staff photo/Ian Kelso 8. Former Prime Minister Paul Martin, right, and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau (prior to his success in the federal election) visit Inspectech in Scarborough Aug. 25.

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There’s only one way Toronto’s Ghislaine Landry, one of the stars for the Canadian women’s seven-aside rugby team, could top last season.

“We’re looking to finish first at the Olympics,” the Lawrence Park Collegiate grad said in a recent interview.

Last season, the powerhouse Canadian team finished in second place, behind New Zealand, in the World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series – basically consisting of six tournaments of six games each – and qualifying for this summer’s Rio Olympics.

And Landry, who grew up in the area of Lawrence Avenue and Avenue Road, was the tournament’s leading scorer with 301 points.

She’s the all-time series leading scorer with 402 points.

Her goal, she said, is to be on the Canadian team “and help make a gold medal happen.”

“We’ve been top three in the world for the past couple of years. We know it’s definitely an option and it’s not far fetched for us and it’s something we know we can do and we’re looking to do it there.

And I’m looking to be part of that, to contribute.”

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team had a terrific runthrough on home soil last summer, winning the rugby sevens championship at the Pan Am Games in Toronto.

“It was an incredible experience,” she said. “It was our first multi sport event for our team so we got a little bit of a taste of what that atmosphere is like.

“We know that Pan Ams is much smaller than the Olympics but for us it was a good opportunity to see what the (athletes’) village was like, be part of Team Canada, meet other athletes, hear their stories and just start to learn.”

We’re looking to finish first at the Olympics.

– Ghislaine Landry

It was also a rare chance to compete in front of family, friends and supporters.

“I actually had 50 family members at Pan Ams watching,” she said. “To have them be there and be part of that was really important to me because they supported me my whole life. And to kind of share that moment with them was special.”

Landry was a star in 15-aside rugby during her university career with St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

She won the CIS Rookie of the Year award, two back-toback CIS Player of the Year awards as well as a CIS title.

It all started at her Toronto high school.

“I started playing rugby in Grade 9 at my high school (Lawrence Park). It was a big sport at my high school and my sister played before me and I kind of followed her footsteps.”

Her highlight, she said, was a second place finish at the provincial high school championships in her final year of school. Her club affiliation is with Toronto Scottish.

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Transit in Toronto anything but a smooth ride in 2015 RAHUL GUPTA rgupta@insidetoronto.com You might say the progress of local transportation improvement was a mixed bag in 2015.

On one hand, there was the completion of badly needed new infrastructure projects like the Union Pearson (UP) Express air rail link and a revitalized Queens Quay. On the other hand, city congestion worsened and large-scale transportation projects were either delayed due to construction issues or other challenges. Meanwhile, new transportation options gained ascendancy, leading to court battles and friction with traditional competition.

Regardless of the progress or the lack there-of, when it comes to transportation, it was certainly not a boring year. Here are some notable stories from 2015.

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A streetcar makes its way along Queen’s Quay following the official opening of the newly redesigned thoroughfare in June 2015.

been operating here since 2012. But 2015 was the year local scrutiny of the tech rideshare company’s revolutionary business model reached a fever pitch.

In September, there was a city briefing outlining proposed bylaw changes intended to regulate Uber’s operations.

Earlier in the year, the city had failed to convince the courts to ban Uber’s UberX service, which operated a taxi service but with unregulated

drivers using their personal vehicles.

The changes were intended to even the playing field so the local cab industry – experiencing significant drops to revenue following the introduction of the UberX service – could compete.

Such briefings are dry and heavy on jargon, but at this meeting city officials grew emotional recounting the struggles of cabbies dealing with the realities of a shifting

marketplace.

Meanwhile, city cab drivers, facing spiralling declines in revenue, took to the streets to voice their frustrations.

From hunger strikes to a full-out day of protest, city cabbies made their opposition to Uber and other would-be rideshares loud and clear.

But it’s not seeming to have much of an impact since Uber is growing increasingly popular: the rideshare claims it’s attracting almost 20,000 new customers every week.

Read the story here: http:// bit.ly/1U0BtFd QUAY: NINE ◗QUEENS YEARS IN THE MAKING

Nine years in the making, including three years of construction, the new-look Queens Quay finally reopened mostly to raves – and some confusion as road users figured out to how to best traverse the remodelled strip. The central waterfront’s main street, Queens Quay was a concrete eyesore for years, which gave little indication

there was water nearby. Now, it’s a tree-lined promenade with a new cycling connection and better access to transit, and maybe a newfound source of interest for Torontonians.

Read the story here: http:// bit.ly/1QUX2HO More here: http://bit. ly/1IkZN3W EXTENSION DELAYED AGAIN ◗SUBWAY

In 2015 the TTC finally had to publicly admit what transit observers had suspected for several months: the completion of the Toronto York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE) was in serious jeopardy of yet another delay.

The six-stop extension into Vaughan was supposed to open a year later than anticipated in 2016. But in mid-March CEO Andy Byford, one day after shockingly firing two senior TTC executives attached to the project, announced the TYSSE wouldn’t open until late 2017 at the earliest.

What’s more, the delay

would require an extra $150 million, bringing the project’s price tag to more than $2.6 billion. The TTC also hired a private consultant company to take over management of the project. Grilled relentlessly by reporters, Byford admitted he would hold himself personally accountable if the project isn’t done by the new deadline.

Read the story here: http:// bit.ly/1PgVzdd FIRST DIRECT AIRPORT CONNECTOR ◗CITY’S

In 2015 a new transit line opened just before the start of the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, becoming the city’s first direct rapid transit connection to the airport. UP was hailed for its speed, (barely 20 minutes between Union Station and Toronto Pearson’s airport) and luxury, businessclass service. But for Junction residents like Tom Hasiak, the only effect of UP was incessant ringing train bells caused by the new service.

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