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fannie sunshine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Having sponsored an Iraqi refugee family to Canada three years ago, parishioners at St. Gabriel’s Passionist Parish didn’t hesitate to once again open their wallets so a Syrian family of four could call Toronto home.

Under sponsorship from the Bayview and Sheppard avenues church’s refugee settlement committee, the family of two adults and two children, ages 10 and three, arrived in Toronto Dec. 20, shortly after Canada began accepting thousands of refugees from the war-torn country.

The family has been temporarily staying with church members, but will soon move into their own place near Victoria Park and Sheppard avenues furnished by donated goods, said Chris Carabine, cochair of St. Gabriel’s refugee settlement committee.

“They are Armenian Christians from Aleppo, and wanted to be closer to the Armenian Community Centre,” he said.

The committee, which raised between $50,000 and $60,000 to sponsor the family, along with an Iraqi man who has yet to arrive, will provide financial support for one year, >>>LOCAL, page 14

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tourney action: Parkdale Flames player Cassidy Bland, left, is pursued by Victoria Village player Danielle Rieveley during a novice game Saturday at the Victoria Village 2016 Select Invitational hockey tournament.

Top 10 traffic ‘hot spots’ announced by mayor ‘Action plans’ underway to improve traffic flow include upgrading city’s ‘smart’ traffic signal system fannie sunshine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com In an effort to ease traffic con-

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Final shot for four-time Olympian The odds of making a fifth Olympic Games got a lot tougher for North York native and new mom Karen Cockburn NORM NELSON nnelson@insidetoronto.com The road to what would be a fifth Olympic Games just got a lot tougher for 35-year-old North York native Karen Cockburn – and she blames herself.

Her resume is impeccable: fourtime Olympian with medals at three of them – bronze in 2000 in Sydney, and silver in both Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008.

And in London, in 2012, she came as close as can be to the podium, finishing fourth. Canada’s medal streak, however, was more than kept alive with 27-year-old King City native Rosie MacLennan winning Olympic gold in the trampoline event.

This time around, however, only one of them will get to compete at the 2016 Rio Olympics because of a disappointing result for Canada’s four-member women’s team at the world trampoline championships held in Denmark in late November.

Two Olympic berths were up for grabs but only MacLennan managed to nail one down with a fourth-place finish.

Cockburn also had a shot, reaching the semifinals, but came up short on the day.

“I messed up one of my elements. We would have had two (Olympic) spots, but I had an off day, so unfortunately...,” she said, her voice trailing off.

So instead of trying to accompany defending gold medalist MacLennan to Rio, her teammates will now have to unseat her to go.

Not that Cockburn looks at it that way.

‘Push each other’ “The more we train and push each other the better it is for whoever that one person is (who earns the nomination for Rio). We need to make each other better.”

And she said everyone needs to be ready in case of injury.

Ironically, it wasn’t the lure of a fifth Olympic Games that kept Cockburn in the sport after finishing fourth at the London Olympics.

Her reason coming back was to compete in the summer’s Pan Am Games in front of a home crowd.

“For me I always thought I’d retire after London (Olympics), I wanted to start a family, it was always my plan. But then I really wanted to compete at the Pan Am

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At left, Karen Cockburn, who played a lot of sports at North York’s George S. Henry Academy in her youth, enjoyed a rare opportunity to compete in front of her hometown fans during the Pan Am Games, earning a bronze medal in the trampoline event, held at the Toronto Coliseum. Above, Cockburn, left, shared the podium with teammate and Olympic gold medalist Rosie MacLennan who repeated the feat at the Pan Am Games.

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Games here in Toronto.”

Cockburn did compromise a little bit, taking a year off after the London Olympics to have her daughter who is now two.

She returned to competition in 2014.

“I had an amazing year coming back in 2014 and I thought I was going to go for a medal at those World’s but I shattered my ankle.”

Her cast was not removed until February.

But she was able to compete at the Pan Am Games and was happy with the result, earning a bronze medal while teammate MacLennan won gold.

“It was kind of like our second chance to share that podium that we missed in London because I came fourth there. That was awe-

some for us.”

Once she had put in all that work and commitment for the Pan Ams, however, it made sense to postpone permanent retirement until after Rio.

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We would have had two (Olympic) spots, but I had an off day.

– Karen Cockburn

“My main goal was coming back for Pan Am Games but I figured since I was at a high level I might as well try and help the team earn a spot going into Rio whether it be for me or not.”

Although now living in Stouffville

with her husband and daughter, she has fond memories of growing up in the city.

“I grew up in North York, so I went to Roywood, Downsview (public schools), George Henry (Academy) so I spent like 20-plus years there (in North York).”

Much of her time as a youth, she said, was spent playing sports.

“I did so many sports growing up. I did diving, trampoline, gymnastics, synchronized swimming.

I played on the (George S. Henry Academy) high school soccer team, I competed for the swim team, I played volleyball. I was just a sport lover in general,” she said.

“But then I had to focus on trampoline as it got more serious, and I started travelling and competing for Canada, and my focus became more narrow.”

With 2016 just days old, many people will use this time to make resolutions for the new year, which might include joining a gym or signing up for fitness classes.

But before contracts are signed, the provincial government is reminding consumers about rights protecting them under Ontario’s Consumer Protection Act. • You have a 10-day cooling-off period: You have the right to cancel a membership within 10 days of receiving a written copy of your contract. You don’t need a reason to cancel. All you need to do is give notice to the business, preferably in writing. Use this 10-day cooling-off period to test out the facility to see if it’s right for you.

• You have the option to pay monthly: You can choose to pay month to month instead of paying up-front for the whole year. The business can charge up to 25 per cent more for monthly payments than the total cost of the annual, up-front fee. However, monthly payments provide flexibility and convenience.

• All contracts must end after a year: Ask about the club’s renewal policy and how you will be contacted to renew. The gym or fitness club must send you a renewal notice between 30 and 90 days before your contract expires, listing any changes to your new contract. If you received a renewal notice and do not respond to it, the club has the right to renew and bill you under the renewed contract.

“Making the decision to join a gym or fitness club can be challenging when you feel pressured to sign up before a promotion ends,” David Orazietti, minister of government and consumer services, said in a release.

“Consumer Protection Ontario offers resources to help you ensure you’re asking the right questions and keep you informed about your consumer rights.”

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oronto might be a city on the move, but a casual observer might wonder whether that movement would be outpaced by a glacier.

When we build something – whether a subway, a highway or a waterfront – we are not inclined much to hurry.

Of all the slow-burn builds, few are slower than the revitalization of Union Station.

The grand old station officially opened in 1927 and was built during the First World War. It was then and remains a vital transportation hub for the largest city in Canada.

It was in 2000 – 16 years ago – that Toronto purchased the station and looked for a private-sector partner to redevelop and renovate the station.

Nearly a decade ago, Toronto and the federal and provincial governments launched a $640-million plan to expand, repair and revitalize the station.

It went over budget, and now our view is going to cost in the neighbourhood of $800 million.

It was supposed to be finished New deal in 2015. brings life to Now, it is expected to be done in 2017. To say the project’s progUnion Station ress has been painful is an understatement.

It was hopeful news, then, when at the Jan. 4 Government Management Committee, councillors considered altering the lease with Osmington, the company that manages the leases in the public space of Union Station.

The lease will see Osmington put another $37 million into the project to enhance the leasable public space, to turn the station into more of a destination.

The deal seems like a good one: Toronto will pay for its portion of the redevelopment by forgoing the incremental revenue it would receive from the new spaces.

In the end, the city projects it will still get more revenue than if the spaces were maintained as-is.

The only money that the city would put up front is $500,000 for lawyers, to make sure the deal is, and stays, as good as it seems.

We sincerely hope that it is.

While it’s difficult to fault the city for the escalating costs of a project that is at once essential and a profound engineering challenge, it would be nice to cap this very tough job with a flourish to make it all look easy.

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Budget chief Crawford not interested in tax increases It didn’t take long for the fundamental direction of Toronto’s budget to emerge this week.

The Jan. 5 meeting of the budget committee had broken for lunch, after its first foray into the $11-billion worth of unfinished business that is the 2016 operating and capital budget.

The budget, as has been noted, is unfinished by design.

City finance staff made it clear in late 2015 that it is unable on its own to square maintaining existing services and adding the services that council approved last year, and also keeping the property tax increase below the rate of inflation.

Staff, in fact, couldn’t even figure out how to balance the budget without the $67-million worth of enhancements approved by council and its agencies.

The budget will require $23 million of, well, something to balance it without adding a lick of service.

david nickle the city Council has to figure its own way out of this.

There are not really very many routes.

Council could raise property taxes higher than inflation, or find some similar way to bring in extra cash.

Or it could dig into other parts of the budget, either cutting services or trimming staff and resources, expecting more out of what remains.

Or, it could simply refuse to fund some or all of the enhancements it supported through 2015.

At least as far as the budget committee goes, it looks as though this last option is the one that we’re going to be looking at.

Budget chair Gary Crawford spoke with reporters after a morning going over those options with staff, and immediately after council progressives

Joe Mihevc and Joe Cressey had made their pitches for versions of the first option.

And he made it clear over the next month of budget hearings, he’s not going to have much time for tax increases and revenue tools. It’s going to all be about setting priorities, among those $67-million in enhancements, or as Crawford referred to them in scrums, the “wish list.”

We’ll see how all that goes. I don’t recall any of the motions and reports approved at council last year including the term “wish list.” Council debated the poverty reduction strategy last year, for instance, and approved it in principle then sent it along to be funded.

When council partially funded service enhancements at the Toronto Transit Commission in 2015, it didn’t represent the full roll-out of those increases as a “wish” for 2016.

To be fair, it is always the

case that a government has to balance its aspirations with its means, and nothing is guaranteed.

But council and Mayor John Tory ought to have considered affordability in the long term when they approved and promoted those things, during what may well be remembered as the feel-good honeymoon year after the 2014 election.

That was the year when council supported a hugely expensive rebuild of the Gardiner Expressway, and when it approved paying premiums to have city road work finished early, and when it put its stamp of approval on all sorts of enhancements.

This year is shaping up to be a little more sobering.

To paraphrase Mick Jagger: you can’t always get what you thought you voted for.

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Celebrating a half century of unique education Glendon College -York University celebrates its 50th anniversary

fannie sunshine fsunshine@insidetoronto.com Though it opened in 1959 as the founding campus of York University, Glendon College grew to carve a unique identity among post-secondary institutions as a bilingual liberal arts school.

B e q u e a t h e d t o Yo r k University as a suburban country estate at Bayview and Lawrence avenues in the 1950s, Glendon opened its doors in 1959 and was officially inaugurated in 1966 by then-prime minister Lester B. Pearson.

Under Glendon’s first principal, Escott Reid, the former diplomat was steadfast in his mission in ensuring Glendon embraced both of Canada’s official languages into its educational system, no matter what course was being taught.

“In 1966, Glendon College was given the mandate of providing students with a strong bilingual postsecondary education in the liberal arts, to prepare them to become leaders in Canada and internationally,” said Donald Ipperciel, current principal of Glendon College.

“We have now extended our mandate by infusing liberal arts thinking into professional

programs such as translation and conference interpretation as well as launching biology and psychology programs, and next fall we will offer new professional programs in business and communications.

We recognize that as we move into our next half-century, we are educating leaders who will help meet the world’s most urgent challenges.”

Set on the historic Wood family estate, Glendon’s staff and 2,700 students come from more than 100 countries to study and interact in a fully bilingual setting, which wasn’t always the case.

Alain Baudot, professor emeritus, who has taught humanities and French at Glendon on and off since 1966, said in the beginning the only time French was spoken in class was if the course happened to be related specifically to the language. Now, all courses in all departments use the French language.

“The staff is completely bilingual,” he said. “That’s a major change. When Glendon first opened, there was only one Quebec (French speaking student) on campus.”

Baudot, who has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Montreal, said he was recruited by Reid while in

Paris, France, to teach at the new campus.

“He insisted it would be bilingual,” Baudot recalled.

“This makes Glendon unique in North America.”

Baudot, who keeps in touch with numerous graduates, said he’s most proud of the alumni the campus has produced, which includes writer M.T. Kelly, winner of the Governor General’s Award in fiction in 1987, and Greg Gatenby, founder of the Festival of Authors at Harbourfront.

“The most important thing to me is what Glendon students have become,” he said. “It doesn’t seem like it’s been 50 years. It seems like yesterday. I remember when Pearson was there.”

Glendon is planning a number of anniversary celebrations this year, including the 50th anniversary reunion and gala weekend, which will be held Sept. 30 and Oct. 1; public Walk in the Valley events to discover the campus’s trails and flora in the spring and fall; and an anniversary closing reception in November that will include a Quebec-Ontario conference examining relations between the two provinces after 400 years of Francophone presence in Quebec and Ontario.

Historical highlights • 1924: E.R. Wood builds Glendon Hall mansion.

• 1962: ProTem, Glendon’s bilingual student newspaper, is founded.

• 1966: Glendon, the founding campus of York University, is inaugurated by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.

• 1967: Hilliard Hall Residence officially opens.

• 1972: Michael Ondaatje, a Sri Lankanborn Canadian novelist and poet who went on to win the Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient, begins teaching with Glendon’s English Studies department.

• 2004: Glendon Hall selected as Junior

League Showhouse and profiled in House and Home magazine.

• 2007: Canada’s first bilingual School of Public and International Affairs officially opens at Glendon.

• 2007: Glendon launches first bilingual and trilingual international Bachelor of Arts (iBA) degrees in Canada.

• 2008: Provincial government names Glendon the Centre of Excellence for Frenchlanguage and Bilingual Post-Secondary Education in Southern Ontario.

• 2012: Glendon celebrates the official opening of the Centre of Excellence building at the front of campus.

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Archival photos of York University's Glendon College above both inside the hall at the entrance of the Manor (top) and the office (above left) back then. Glendon is celebrating its 50th anniversary, which began as a country estate (above right) with an elegant mansion at its centre and bequeathed to York University in the 1950s. The campus opened in 1959 as the founding campus of York University and officially inaugurated in 1966 by then Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.

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A spokesperson for the Weston Road and King Streetarea community centre, Ken Theobald, says that its charitable food sources, such as Second Harvest and the Daily Bread Food Bank, are under an increased demand and so “the dollars we do have aren’t going as far as they used to.”

At the same time, he added, the number of residents who are reliant on its drop-in breakfast, lunch, and community dinners are steadily increasing from about 65 to 100 people daily.

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For most people in Toronto, this expenditure is frustrating, but will likely only take a small bite out of their income. However, those on fixed incomes will feel the brunt of these increases.

Weston resident Carl Tebo is one of those people. He was more than happy to chat on a bitter cold early January afternoon at the Weston King Neighbourhood Centre.

“The impact is dramatic,” he said. “I’ll eat fewer meals at home, more at places like these.”

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Daisy Burns works in the Weston King Neighbourhood Centre food bank on Monday. Increased food prices are having an affect on those in need in Weston.

and those like him don’t go hungry – “that’s number one,” he said. “And, I shouldn’t have to. I shouldn’t have to miss meals because I can’t afford them. I shouldn’t have to eat unhealthy food, full of carbs and fats.”

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budget is small,” he said.

“They do perform miracles with the relatively small budget that they do have. I commend them for that.”

Carl relies on the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP). He said he took his January payment that arrived in December and went to No Frills where he was only able to purchase three days’ worth of meat.

“That’s all I’d have for the month if it wasn’t for this place,” he said.

Carl’s monthly ODSP income is $600, an amount he said he could spend in a week at the grocery store when he was working.

T h e We s t o n K i n g Neighbourhood Centre has seen the largest increase in the number of seniors who are now feeling the pinch more than ever – because they are on a fixed income, Theobald said.

“It’s sad,” he said.

Distribution centres, like the Daily Bread Food Bank, are hit double in situations like these, said its executive director Gail Nyberg.

“First, we’ll see an increase in member agencies because people are being pushed to the edge. As prices increase, we’ll see the need increase,” she said.

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Not only is it crucial to donate to the Daily Bread Food Bank during non-holiday periods, it is important that we look at the way we store food, Nyberg said. For example, vegetables will keep much longer if they are washed and trimmed and wrapped properly.

“I read a report that people like me throw out in excess of $1,000 worth of food a year. We need to do better as a society,” she said.

What the Weston King Neighbourhood Centre is lacking is fruits, vegetables and dairy.

“In the long run, what’s really needed are policy changes,” Theobald said.

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Taxi owners to get break on licensing fees Taxi owners and drivers should get a small break on their licensing fees until Toronto’s new ground transport regulations are ready, Mayor John Tory said recently.

The city’s taxi license holders are “in a particularly unique and challenging position,” Tory added in a Dec. 29 open letter to Gary Crawford, Toronto’s budget chief.

Cab drivers, complaining the ridesharing service Uber and UberX are eroding their business, have lately blocked

Toronto traffic in protests.

License fees for cabs rise in January, but the mayor suggested Crawford freeze them at 2015 levels, offering “modest relief” until new regulations for both taxis and rideshare drivers go before Toronto Council sometime this winter.

Tory said he expects fees under the new regulations will cost taxi drivers and owners less.

Kristine Hubbard, operations manager at Beck Taxi,

said freezing fee increases “is a first step in acknowledging taxi drivers in Toronto are facing undue financial burdens and are being asked to compete against an illegal operator.”

In a statement, she added the company will “work with the mayor and city councillors in the new year to establish smart and effective regulations that are fair for the entire ground transportation industry and properly protect the citizens of Toronto.”

The iTaxi Association, how-

ever, said Tory’s gesture “is a drop in the bucket and will make no significant difference to the lives of the frontline drivers.”

The industry “has been suffering for a year and a half now, and unfortunately we haven’t seen the political leadership required to halt the illegal, unlicensed and uninsured operation,” said a statement from Sajid Mughal, president of the group representing independent drivers.

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Finch West Light Rail Transit Update

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Please join us for an update on the Finch West Light Rail Transit (LRT) project, including the reference concept design for the stops, information on the maintenance and storage facility, and detail on public realm elements.

At any of the following meetings, you can find out more about what is happening and how it may affect you and your neighbourhood.

The Finch West LRT will bring a new rapid transit experience to your community, with 18 stops through northwest Toronto, including an underground interface station at Keele Street. Running along the surface of Finch Avenue between Humber College and Keele Street, this reliable and comfortable transit line is approximately 11-kilometres long and will connect to the new Finch West subway station on the TorontoYork Spadina subway extension.

Construction is scheduled to begin in 2017.

Open House Dates and Locations: Monday January 11, 2016 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

St. Wilfrid Catholic School (Gym) 1685 Finch Ave W.

Tuesday January 12, 2016 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Julius Banquet Centre 2201 Finch Ave W.

Wednesday January 13, 2016 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Father Henry Carr (Cafeteria) 1760 Martin Grove Rd.

For more Finch West LRT information: Visit www.metrolinx.com/finchwest finchwest@metrolinx.com Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez visiter www.metrolinx.com/finchwest ou envoyer un courriel à finchwest@metrolinx.com.

Local organization commits to providing garments for refugees in city for two years >>>from page 1 which will include housing and a monthly stipend, Carabine said.

When the Archdiocese of Toronto launched Project Hope last September, a 100day campaign aiming to raise $3 million to settle 100 refugee families, including from Syria and Iraq, within the Greater Toronto Area, the church sprang into action.

St. Gabriel’s was given profiles of 100 families, Carabine said, adding the committee was looking to sponsor a young family.

“I closed my eyes and let my fingers pick one,” he said.

He then began communicating with the family over email, and through broken En g l i s h c o u l d t e l l they were “over the moon.”

extremely grateful “They said ‘thank you’ 1,000 times,” said Carabine, adding he’s taken the family to enrol in ESL classes and has set them up with a doctor who speaks Arabic.

Next up is enrolling the one child in school, ensuring the family receives OHIP coverage, and maybe taking in a hockey game, he said.

The day after the family arrived in Canada, Don Valley We s t M P Ya s m i n Ratansi held a Town Hall meeting to discuss the Syrian refugee situation in the city and how residents can help.

The meeting at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre near the Don Valley Parkway and Eglinton Avenue Dec. 21 drew more than 300 attendees, Ratansi’s office said, adding discussion centred on how

people could get involved with community organizations sponsoring refugees, and how to donate items of furniture and clothing.

As for clothing, one North York organization has committed to providing garments to all Syrian refugees in the city for two years. free access to programs Working with Lifeline Syria and other partner agencies, New Circles, located on Bartley Drive near Victoria Park Avenue and O’Connor Drive, has not only committed to providing refugees with clothing, but also free access to social programs, language tutoring, and training opportunities.

“We have 10 years of working with refugees, so we are in a good position to extend support to newcomers,” said Alykhan Suleman, executive director of New Circles.

The organization, which provides clothing to residents of Thorncliffe Park, F l e m i n g d o n Pa r k a n d Victoria Village, opened in 2005 with the goal of assisting those living in poverty by providing much needed free clothing.

It has serviced more than 13,000 children and adults annually, the majority of whom are Canadian newcomers.

Syrian refugees living outside New Circles’ catchment area can access clothing twice a year for two years, while those residing within can shop four times a year for two years, Suleman said.

“They are already suited up for winter, so we are not anticipating a rush of people,” he said, adding donated items can’t be earmarked specifically for Syrian refugees.

“Bottom line, we are here for the long term.”

Clothing donations are currently at capacity, so Suleman is asking donors to hold off on dropping off goods until late January, but noted monetary donations are always welcome.

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The woman was taken to Sunnybrook hospital via an emergency run.

Police closed Steeles in both directions between Leslie and Don Mills Road for more than five hours as a collision reconstruction team investigated.

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Review the preliminary 2016 Budget at: toronto.ca/council or toronto.ca/budget2016.

User Fee Town Hall Meeting City Hall, Committee Room 2, January 11, 6 p.m.

Information session on the user fee policy and any proposed fee increases above inflation. No deputations.

To participate in the 2016 Budget discussion: 1. Make a public presentation at one of the Budget Subcommittee meetings on January 12, 13 or 14, 2016.

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City Hall Committee Room 1 100 Queen St. West January 12 Session 1: 9:30 a.m.

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Etobicoke Civic Centre Council Chamber 399 The West Mall January 12 Session 1: 3 p.m.

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Send to - Attention: Budget Committee 3. Send a letter or email to your local City Councillor.

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Notice: If you write or make a presentation to the Budget Committee, the City will collect and use your personal information in accordance with applicable laws. We also videotape meetings and make recordings publicly available on request. More information about the collection and use of your personal information is available at: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/privacy.htm.

‘Smart’ traffic signal system ready to be installed at 20 intersections >>>from page 1 series of initiatives, including: develop and implement action plans for 10 congestion ‘hotspots’ across Toronto.

These action plans could include the following: • Signal re-timing, re-engineering 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 • Initiate a Traffic 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.

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 (see chart below).

The results for five of the intersections are expected to be done by the end of June.

Tory said the “smart” traffic signal system is ready to be installed at 20 test intersections, and based on results, should be ready to expand in several months.

He added the goal is to have each initiative underway in the coming months, with results delivered by the end of the year.

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