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Ballooning subway proposal heads to Council for ninth vote DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com Defenders of the onestop subway extension into Scarborough showed up in force to the March 7 Executive Committee meeting, where councillors were asked to confirm approval to the now more costly $3.35 billion, six kilometre subway extension. The committee spent most of the day with those defenders - many speaking on behalf of a group calling itself Connect Scarborough - and also opponents of the subway plan who charged that the line that will move trains between Scarborough Town Centre and Kennedy Station is both unaffordable and inadequate. In the end, the commit-
tee voted to recommend staying the course with the more expensive subway plan - with only one councillor, Scarborough East Councillor Paul Ainslie, voting no - for what will be the ninth time that Council has dealt with the subway. But the fireworks proceeded through the meeting. Robin Simpson, of Selkirk Investments, voiced her company’s support for the plan - particularly as it benefits future development that Selkirk and Oxford Properties are hoping to proceed with in the Scarborough Town Centre area. "It is time to stop treating the eastern part of Scarborough as Scarberia," she said. Ryan Maglaland of Connect Scarbrorough supported the subway - saying it currently took him two hours to get to work downtown from his home near the Toronto Zoo. "I don’t think it should be defined as a one stop subway-it should be called a necessary extension," he
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A Scarborough Rapid Transit (SRT) train pulls in to Ellesmere Station alongside a parallel single GO train track. A proposed subway line to Scarborough Town Centre, to replace the aging SRT is still on track opposition from various interest groups. said. The subway also got support from the University of Toronto. Sitharsana Srithas, vice president of the U of T’s Scarborough Campus, said that the subway - and the Eglinton light rail extension - was essential for students trying to get to the campus.
"Historically, Scarborough has been underserved," she said. "Scarborough has seen the worse facilities, the worse services and is asked to pay more and more in fares. Scarborough is too big not to get high order transit." Councillors on the committee - and Mayor John
Tory - bristled at some of the deputations coming to promote the other side: cutting the Scarborough subway and returning to a fully funded light rail network. Tory asked one deputant, Joy Robertson of Scarborough Residents Unite who had argued that the six kilometre stretch without a
station was too long, about the strength of the support. "Are you prepared to accept the fact that business people came in here, the business community, and they talked about the people who would be coming in. it’s not as though there will be tumbleweed rolling down the platform," he said. She replied: "What I saw was their interests - their business interests took the forefront, ahead of our residents that need to be serviced first. That’s what I saw today." In his remarks, Tory dismissed opposition to the subway plan as people "who’ve used everything short of poison-tipped umbrellas and exploding cigars" to derail a subway project that Toronto Council had already approved. Other councillors noted that the subway was not technically approved until Council approved a tender. The matter will go to the March 28 meeting of Council.
| Scarborough Mirror | Thursday, March 9, 2017
Proponents, opponents clash over Scarborough subway
Exhibit shares past and present of Kingston Road motels An exhibition opening March 10 looks at the history and continuing uses of Scarborough’s Kingston Road motel strip. No Vacancy, which continues at Scarborough Arts’ Bluffs Gallery on Kingston Road through March 31, pairs historic images of the motels in their prouder past with contemporary artworks by Sandra Brewster, Nadijah Robinson and Curita Wright. Earning a less-than-savory reputation over the years, the remaining
Kingston Road motels have been used as overflow city shelters and temporary refugee housing. Through them, No Vacancy "explores the stories of Toronto’s displaced populations" and "examines the multipurpose use of these seemingly desolate motel spaces today," Scarborough Arts says in a release. Curator Alyssa Fearon added she was inspired by artists such as Theaster Gates and Rick Lowe, who "committed their careers to transforming communi-
ties through art." Besides an opening reception on March 10, there will be a guided walk of the exhibit on Saturday, March 18, as well as a panel discussion, "Vacancies in the Arts in Scarborough," moderated by Fearon, on March 30. All the events are free. More about No Vacancy, which is presented in partnership with the Myseum of Toronto and the Scarborough Historical Society, is at www.scarborougharts.com/No-Vacancy.
Kingston Road motel strip is pictured in its vanished prime in this image from No Vacancy, an exhibit which runs March 10 to 31 at Scarborough Arts’ Bluffs Gallery on Kingston Road. No Vacancy pairs archival photos with contemporary artworks and is curated by Alyssa Fearon. Submitted photo
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Masking true cost of hydro won’t fix broken system Our hydro bills may be going down this summer, but don’t pop the bubbly just yet. While Ontario residents will see an average 25 per cent reduction on the bottom line, what they won’t see is what it’s going to cost future generations and the current structural inefficiencies and ongoing bad planning that make electricity expensive for us in the first place. Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the savings this month saying it was the fair thing to do. She heard from families struggling with their bills and struggling to understand why rates have skyrocketed. Unfortunately, because the history of hydro and its mismanagement is such a long and complicated one, politicians looking to distract would-be voters benefit from its current complexity. People don’t get it and don’t have the time, the comprehension or the willingness to figure it out. What they do get is how hard it is to pay a huge bill. So Wynne’s Liberals are waving a shiny 25 per cent hydro cut over here, while over there, our expensive hydro system continues to plod along. The lower bills come from refinancing the term of payment the province owes to private power providers - from 20 years to 30. So we’re deferring costs to future generations in order to get some immediate relief. And we’re incurring about $25 billion in extra interest charges over that time. Additional relief will be coming through low-income and rural subsidy programs, but that too comes at a cost of $2.5 billion over the next three years charged to Ontario’s treasury and taxpayers. As tempting as it is to celebrate lower bills, with an election year in 2018, we need to hold all parties to account to do more than float distractions. Ontario generates more power than it knows what to do with and we’re forced to sell it to our neighbours at a discounted rate. Sometimes we have to pay for them to take it. The sale of Hydro One has locked us into guaranteed contracts with private power providers whether we need that power or not. There’s little transparency as to the details of private contracts and that takes accountability right out of the system. We need a comprehensive plan and a system overhaul. Keep that in mind when you’re told to celebrate your June power bill. It’s not nearly enough.
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Finding the fire again in Rustic Rustic is an in-between place. Luisa Giacometti says it’s part of a neglected Toronto, "caught in the middle" between Mount Dennis and Jane-Finch, neighbourhoods she believes get more attention, and more money. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she says, the area was a haven for drugs and prostitution. "There was violence constantly." Residents from both the highrises and bungalows between Lawrence Avenue and Hwy. 401, east of Jane Street, turned things around. "We worked hard at it," says Giacometti. One night, 400 filled a meeting at Nelson A. Boylen Collegiate. Today, though, Boylen, its pool drained, is entering
MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto its third year empty, awaiting a sale. Active residents got older, moved away. The Jane Falstaff Community Association Giacometti and others created still meets, but the few leading it, she says, "are getting burned out." Standing up for a neighbourhood is hard when you can’t find free spaces to meet in. Falstaff Community
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Centre bursts with youth and kids from nearby highrises. The association met there last week, in one of the only free spaces it can get. As one man pointed out, though, everyone in the room lives in a house, and is white. Most Rustic residents aren’t. The community centre will close soon for renovations, but not before September, and the city says it’s looking at "relocation options" for programs. But relocate where? For many in Rustic, the York Recreation Centre, at Eglinton Avenue and Black Creek Drive, is two long bus rides away. People voted in the city’s lengthy "participatory budgeting" process for small park improvements - a ga-
zebo in Rustic Park, a white wall for movies at Maple Leaf Park. But sewer work has held those projects up. New lights installed in Maple Leaf aren’t turned on. Yet there’s hope. Rustic’s large, affordable house lots are attracting buyers. People are moving back because they like the area, says Carlo DiBenedetto, one of its few business owners. DiBenedetto says the residents’ group needs more warriors, more advertising, and events which are more enjoyable, maybe with food. Giacometti and others approve. "If you’ve got the fire, we need the fire," she says. Reach Mike Adler at madler@insidetoronto.com
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Visit to Sri Lanka a homecoming for Neethan Shan Councillor last saw his homeland as a refugee at 16
tion’s booming movie industry, and with its education and technology sectors. But Tory, Shan and Michael Thompson, a Scarborough councillor and the city’s economic development chairperson, will spend one full day in Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna province, from which many Tamils emigrated to Toronto. During the bitter, longrunning war, which ended in defeat for separatist Tamils in 2009, many Tamil-Canadians boycotted Sri Lankan products and asked other Canadians to do the same. In 2015, however, the island’s hardline regime changed when Mahinda Rajapaksa lost a presidential election. As a result, more TamilCanadians felt free to reunite with relatives back home, and to do business in Sri Lanka. "We saw a window of opportunity, a ray of hope," said David Poopalapillai,
MIKE ADLER madler@insidetoronto.com A brief stop on Toronto Mayor John Tory’s coming tour of South Asia is also a homecoming for Neethan Shan. It will be the first time Shan, elected a councillor for Scarborough-Rouge River last month, sets foot in Sri Lanka since leaving for Canada as a refugee, fleeing civil war at age 16. "I’m looking forward to it, going back as a city councillor," said Shan, acknowledging though his role is official, "you can’t take away the emotional aspect of it." Tory’s economic mission, which starts on March 15, will spend most of its 10 days in India, focusing on building ties with that na-
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Neethan Shan gets a hug from a supporter after winning the Ward 42 by election in Scarborough last month. Accompanying Mayor John Tory on an economic mission to South Asia, Shan will see Sri Lanka for the first time since leaving as a refugee at age 16. national spokesperson for the Canadian Tamil Congress, which sees the brief visit as significant, given the large size of Toronto’s Tamil community. "We are not saying every-
thing is rosy and nice and great there," he said this week, but if the visit by Toronto officials "can move something on the economic front, we welcome this." Both men say Sri Lanka
of the visit is helping areas of Sri Lanka affected by the war, and bringing Jaffna and Toronto together, thus helping "the community that has contributed so much to Toronto."
has been slow to improve, even under the new government, on human rights and in investigating what many Tamils say were war crimes by the island’s military. Shan said the main goal
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son to the (hospital) emergency department. How often do geriatricians come to the long-term care facility, do the test, and prescribe the antibiotic," she said. The Ontario Liberals began nursing reforms under former premier Dalton McGuinty. "In the McGuinty era, nurse practitioners were authorized to admit patients from the emergency department to in-patient units, and treat and discharge patients," Grinspun said. "Today, several other jurisdictions allow nurse practitioners to do that. (Ontario) was the first." Under Wynne, there are now 75 funded nurse practitioner positions in longterm care facilities, she added. In recent years, Ontario’s nurse practitioners have grown from 1,500 to 2,000 to well above 3,000, Grinspun said.
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It will enable nurses to provide a full contribution to the health and health care of all Ontarians." Ontario’s registered nurses will be the first in Canada to prescribe medications, she said. "Now registered nurses and nurse practitioners can become a huge solution to health care access issues, not only for people, but for complications and system ineffectiveness," Grinspun added. "A percentage of people if treated in primary care or longterm care in a timely fashion would not need to go to a hospital emergency department." The regulatory changes for Ontario nurses is a specific priority for Hoskins in the next two years, outlined in Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s mandate letter to him last September. There are 96,000 registered nurses in Ontario. Grinspun said if even 10 per cent of registered nurs-
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LIGHTS OUT: ONTARIO’S ELECTRICITY PROBLEM
Caught in a power struggle Residents, critics wary of hydro rate cut that defers costs onto future generations
charges over that time. Goodchild said the Liberals are just kicking the can down the road. “Instead of reducing rates, it is going to cost us more in the JUSTIN SKINNER long run,” he said. “This is not JOHN EDWARDS going to help us whatsoever. SIMON MARTIN They’re doing this for votes.” The government’s new This summer we’ll see a measures also include helpbreak on hydro bill costs, but ing low-income residents and some residents particularly hard broadening the rural and remote hit by high rates and delivery rate protection program by subfees, aren’t buying it. sidizing rural homeowners who Daren Goodchild, a horse have unusually high distribufarmer from Markham, has felt tion rates. The savings could be the pinch. between $12 and $75 depending The electricity bill for his on consumption and rate plan. small farm from October to Those subsidies will cost the December in 2016 totalled $592, government’s treasury, and taxincluding $130 in delivery fees payers, about $2.5 billion over alone. With an electric wellthe next three years. pump for water and an oilCritics say lowering the cost burning furnace in his 160-yearof hydro artificially without old home, the costs of running addressing broader structural the farm are fast spiralling out issues is a mistake. of control and he feels “Nothing in the govthere’s little hope of ernment’s new plan slowing it. changes the under“It’s gotten to lying costs of the ‘Nothing in the the point where power system,” government’s new we have changed said energy plan changes the our behaviour as consultant Tom best we can but Adams. underlying costs it doesn’t seem He challenged of the power to make a lick the notion that of difference,” he Wynne’s plan was system.” said. like refinancing a Premier Kathleen mortgage. – Tom Adams, Wynne announced “Not true. Her energy March 2 that the govplan is like refinancing consultant ernment would reduce monthly rental costs. hydro rates by 25 per The monthly rent paycent, which includes the ments will go down, but eight per cent rebate on after the next election the the Ontario portion of the renter will be in much HST. In order to do this, worse trouble.” the plan refinances the Adams says Ontario is payments to private power actually enjoying something providers who signed on for of a “power cost sweet spot” 20-year contracts. at the moment, with relatively Under the new plan, the provaffordable nuclear power. But ince has increased the payment that’s about to change, he said, term from 20 to 30 years, which with some of the province’s will incur $25 billion in interest nuclear generating units up
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Daren Goodchild is one of many Ontarians struggling with surging hydro rates. He lives on a farm in rural Markham and says the electricity costs of running his small farm have become insanely high. for refurbishment in the near future. “A decline in nuclear production and a sharp increase in cost is about to happen,” Adams said. Keith Brooks, programs director at Environmental Defence, is pleased the government’s plan includes conservation initiatives like the $200 million Affordability Fund, which helps people make their homes more energy efficient. But he said the government’s reforms make no changes to the supply mix – the amount of power we get from nuclear versus gas versus wind. “… To keep costs low, we need to see more renewables in Ontario’s future,” he wrote in an opinion piece for Metroland Media. “Wind and solar power costs are plummeting, while costs for nuclear power are rising. Renewable energy has created a solid foundation for a clean economy – one that Ontario now needs to
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build upon.” Ontario’s PC and NDP energy critics both say halting the sale of public electric companies is priority Number 1. The cost to consumers is being hijacked by the drive for profit. “…Because of the way these new private power contracts are written, we are stuck paying guaranteed profit for power plants whether we need them or not,” said Peter Tabuns, NDP energy critic. “Right now, Ontario generates more power than we can use, about $2 billion a year worth of surplus power that we sell to Quebec and New York at a deep — 75 per cent — discount. In fact, many times we have to pay them to take our power.” Transparency on the government’s current energy contracts is also lacking, said Todd Smith, PC energy critic. “In my own riding of Prince Edward-Hastings, I’ve watched power companies ask for and get
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extensions from the government that drag the project out years beyond what was envisioned by the original deal,” he said. “That’s not something you do if you’re on the side of the people paying hydro bills.” Mark Rodger, a lawyer with Borden Ladner Gervais and an expert in the utility sector, meanwhile, said delivery charges are a necessary hit. Simply being hooked up to hydro costs money even when energy is not being used. Those costs could be cut, however, should some of Ontario’s 60-plus utility companies merge. By having different companies running their own distribution systems, he said, it adds $1 billion in costs. “Through consolidation, you can remove those costs through efficiency gains,” he said. – with files from David Nickle
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Police see spike in home break-ins are multiple organized groups operating not only in Scarborough but throughout the GTA," Heaney said. Homes that are concealed by overgrown bushes, hedges, trees or glass enclosure vestibules are being targeted, police said. In several break-ins, the suspects were posing as door-to-door solicitors in an attempt to avoid suspicion. Anyone with information is asked to contact 42 Division at 416-808-4200 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at 222tips.com
Road to the west and Victoria Park Avenue to the east. "We’ve been hit hard," he said. "We’re looking at 79 break and enters. They’re taking cash, they’re taking valuables, particularly jewelry, and in some cases they’re taking electronics, but in most cases they’re leaving those as a lot of people have tracking apps on their phones, their iPads (and) on other devices." Two people were recently arrested in connection with break-ins in Scarborough and in other parts of the GTA. But there are other suspects outstanding. "We do believe that there
ANDREW PALAMARCHUK apalamarchuk@insidetoronto.com Police are urging the public to be more vigilant following a significant spike in residential breakins in northwest Scarborough. Toronto police said there was a 43 per cent increase in break and enters in 42 Division in the first two months of 2017 over that time last year. Det. Sgt. Gerry Heaney said the majority of the incidents happened during daytime hours at homes bounded by Steeles Avenue to the north, Finch Avenue to the south, McCowan
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SPRING Spring is a season of renewal when plants and trees will begin to look fresh and green once more. Spring maintenance includes applying fertilizer to lawns, replenishing mulch in planting beds, creating more pronounced edges around the lawn and garden beds, and testing soil. Some homeowners like to apply a weed-prevention product in the spring as well. Spring is a good time to plant annuals that will add a pop of colour to the landscape. For those concerned about permanent planting, container gardening allows homeowners to move around planters in a configuration that works best for them.
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Judging a home by its appearance is often par for the home-buying course. An appealing home exterior suggests the homeowner takes pride in his or her home and wants to make every effort to maintain that home. Curb appeal involves various components a home’s exterior, but beautiful landscap-
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Summer landscaping is all about maintaining what was established in the spring. Regular mowing, weeding and trimming can keep a landscape manicured. Other than drought, weeds are perhaps the biggest lawn and garden nuisance to a landscape in the summertime. Black medic, carpetweed, knotweed, mallow and prostate spurge are some of the weeds that will crop up during the summer. Seeds begin to germinate as soil warms up. According to the University of Maryland Extension, control with a broadleaf post-emergent herbicide applied when the weed is actively growing will help prevent weeds from suffocating lawns.
Autumn is often a forgotten season when it comes to maintaining a landscape. However, fall is a key time to keep landscapes in order. According to the landscaping resource LoveYourLandscape. com, fall is the ideal time to tend to a lawn that just endured summer heat. Seeding and fertilizing can ensure a stronger lawn come next spring. Perennials should be pruned and cut back. Raking leaves will help keep the property looking presentable.
WINTER One of the ways to maintain an attractive landscape throughout winter is to install plants that can survive the colder temperatures. Winterberry is a cousin of holly, but loses its leaves in the fall. The bright red berries can be a stark contrast to the white of winter snowfall. Camellia is an evergreen that blooms from fall to early spring and looks like pink roses. Heather is a popular plant in the United Kingdom, but is growing in popularity on this side of the Atlantic as well. The Home Depot says this plant blooms all year and offers beautiful flowers in summer and fall. In winter, the thick foliage makes for an appealing contrast to the more delicate blooms of other winter plants. Maintaining a landscape through the seasons makes a home attractive all year long.
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Harrison still playing 40 years after draft Scarborough native Steve Harrison is definitely not a household name in the hockey community. One thing he is, though, is persistent. This 58-year-old former third round draft pick of the St. Louis Blues in 1978, and former Scarborough
Mirror carrier, has spent a lifetime in the game he loves. Although he has yet to make it to the NHL as either a player or a coach, he is still plugging away almost 40 years after being drafted. "I’m fortunate to be in the game . one thing is I
come to the rink every day .. I love working with the young men and I love teaching the game," he says. Harrison piled up the points in his playing career in the minors as an offensive defenceman. "I was a rushing defenceman and, kind of like Bobby Orr, I got
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to play on the power play .. Of course it was a different game at the time." After a successful junior career with the Toronto Marlboros, his 16-year professional career included North American stops in Kalamazoo (twice), Peoria, Port Huron (twice), Toledo, Moncton, Salt Lake (three times), Flint, and Fort Worth and overseas stops in France and Finland. His 15-year coaching career has included stops in four professional and two junior hockey leagues. When asked about his nomadic playing and coaching career, he says, "My wife comes with me
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Mozart and Faure Requiem WHEN: 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. WHERE: P.C.Ho Theatre, 5183 Sheppard Ave. East, Toronto CONTACT: 416-879-5566, cbsoboxoffice@gmail.com, www.cathedralbluffs.com COST: $35-plis ($30 Students/Seniors) The Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra program includes Mozart’s Requiem in D minor and Faure’s Requiem in D minor, Op. 48.
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Trump could put Lake Ontario’s health at risk The existential political crisis that the United States is undergoing under President Donald Trump cannot help but impact the life of Canadians on the other side of the border. Travel for Canadian citizens and permanent residents of certain national origins will be impeded, thanks to the Trump travel ban. The arrival of refugees, fleeing home countries and the United States both, on foot across our undefended border, will swell. The flow of goods and services across the border . well, we’ll see about that. Something else we’ll see about will be the quality of the water that is lapping up against Toronto’s shoreline. Leaked documents last week indicated that the Trump White House is intending to make drastic cuts to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and its concentrated $300 million Great Lakes Restoration efforts. By 2018, it will be down to just $10 million. How much will this cut
DAVID NICKLE The City impact Canada? Much of the U.S. funding is, understandably, focused on the American shores of the Great Lakes - cleaning up old problems and restoring and strengthening wetlands. Our work will proceed apace. But of course there are interconnections. Tony Maas, Manager of Strategies at the advocacy group Freshwater Future, says that cut - combined with other cuts to the EPA, impacting the extensive amount of research the agency produces - will have a rippling impact. There are agencies that rely on EPA research, and on co-operative projects. Big, shared problems such as the
algae blooms choking out Lake Erie rely on EPA research. And the cuts highlight problems in quantifying Canada’s own contribution. While government does do work on the Great Lakes, it is difficult to track. The federal government did, in its last budget, allocate $3.1 million for dealing with those algae blooms. Toronto can’t be faulted, putting tens of millions of dollars into mitigating its major impact on Lake Ontario’s health - the stormwater run-off that has historically sent raw human sewage into Lake Ontario. Good for us. But with our neighbour’s imminent withdrawal - it might not be good enough any more. David Nickle is a reporter and columnist covering Toronto City Hall for Metroland Media Toronto. He can be reached at dnickle@insidetoronto.com. Follow him on Twitter at @davidnickle, and InsideToronto on Facebook
What exactly is the Uber effect? Uber Canada is sitting rather pretty these days. The company opened a facility in Mississauga and, fuelled by decisive legal and regulatory victories, business seems to be booming for the private transportation upstart. Abroad however, Uber has faced negative headline after headline: a former female engineer documented a full year of bizarre and sexist treatment while working at the company’s San Francisco headquarters. The company’s CEO’s admitted, following a row with one of his own drivers, he needs to grow up and become a better leader. There is a still-unfolding story about how the company in some jurisdictions comes up with misleading travel data to throw off authorities. In the GTA at least, things are going far more swimmingly for the ride hailing company. It can operate legally and for now
RAHUL GUPTA TO in Transit free of competition (Lyft which has profited handsomely from Uber’s dysfunction stateside has yet to publicly confirm when or if it will enter the Toronto market). Meanwhile its fiercest opponent, the taxi industry, continues to atrophy. That said, shouldn’t it be time to measure the effect of ride hailing on traffic patterns? In New York City, a recent mayor’s report concluded Uber and Lyft use clogs up traffic. Anecdotally at least, there are claims this is indeed the case here too. Another area requiring examination is the effect of
Uber on public transit. After years of wild growth, the TTC is finally starting to see ridership level off. Could Uber’s entrance into the marketplace have played a role in weakening ridership in places like Liberty Village where TTC service is limited or infrequent? Last September, the TTC’s board directed staff to meet with its City of Toronto counterparts to determine out the answer to some of these questions. No meetings have yet been set, and there’s no timetable for reporting. I’m not aware of any other traffic studies focusing on the Uber effect. Uber’s impact on transportation is undeniable. It’s time there’s some credible data to show just how deep that impact is. Rahul Gupta is Metroland Media Toronto’s transportation and infrastructure reporter. Reach him on Twitter @TOinTRANSIT
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ALL PRICES ARE PLUS HST AND LICENSING. PRICES & OFFERS VALID ON DATE OF PUBLICATION AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. VEHICLES ARE FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES AND MAY NOT BE EXACTLY AS SHOWN. ALL MANUFACTURER’S INCENTIVES HAVE BEEN APPLIED. NOT EVERYONE WILL QUALITY OAC. FINANCE EXAMPLE: $10,000 AT 0% FINANCING FOR 84 MONTHS MONTHLY PAYMENT IS $119. COST OF BORROWING IS $0.00 FOR A TOTAL OBLIGATION OF $10,000 AT 3.49% FOR 96 MONTHS, THE MONTHLY PAYMENT IS $106.60 COST OF BORROWING IS $1,487 FOR A TOTAL OBLIGATION OF $11,487 SEE ROADSPORT CHRYSLER FOR FULL DETAILS.