Karen Stintz meets with Rob Ford’s staff and brings OneCity back from the brink
Another day, another twist in the OneCity saga. On Wednesday, TTC chair Karen Stintz publicly mused that she didn’t have the council votes to move a study of the blockbuster plan forward, but now she’s sounding more chipper. “I think we will be successful in having a study of OneCity approved,” she said yesterday after a meeting with Rob Ford’s chief of staff, Amir Remtulla, and Earl Provost of councillor relations. However, Stintz refused to say whether she and TTC vice-chair Glenn De Baeremaeker will keep pushing for the two per cent property tax increase dedicated to transit, an idea that councillors from both the right and the left have attacked (Adam Vaughan recently called it a “half-baked proposition”). Given Stintz’s silence, it’s possible she and De Baeremaeker have agreed to scrap the funding model for something more palatable to council. Or not. At this point, the future of OneCity remains a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside a maroon TTC jacket. [Toronto Star]
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Another day, another twist in the OneCity saga. On Wednesday, TTC chair Karen Stintz publicly mused that she didn’t have the council votes to move a study of the blockbuster plan forward, but now she’s sounding more chipper. “I think we will be successful in having a study of OneCity approved,” she said yesterday after a meeting with Rob Ford’s chief of staff, Amir Remtulla, and Earl Provost of councillor relations. However, Stintz refused to say whether she and TTC vice-chair Glenn De Baeremaeker will keep pushing for the two per cent property tax increase dedicated to transit, an idea that councillors from both the right and the left have attacked (Adam Vaughan recently called it a “half-baked proposition”). Given Stintz’s silence, it’s possible she and De Baeremaeker have agreed to scrap the funding model for something more palatable to council. Or not. At this point, the future of OneCity remains a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside a maroon TTC jacket. [Toronto Star]){kind=link}
How about 98% of her paycheck goes toward the cost?
“Save” would rather build nothing? 80% of the taxpayers want it and need it. The start of OneCity is a study to see if it is feasible or not to build it over the 30 years. Lets do the study at least and not do nothing.
the taxpayers want subways. They came up to Rob Ford at the mall. The TAXPAYERS. They don’t want these damned streetcars blocking up our city. Subways, subways, subways, folks! World class cities! Taxpayers! GRAVY TRAIN! Political suicide. LRTs destroy neighbourhoods. The taxpayers want subways. They came up to him at the mall in Scarborough there and said they want subways.
Let’s get real… OneCity is about saving the political bacon of Stintz, deBaermaker and all the other Scarborough councillors who will be toast in 2014 because they voted down subways in Scarborough when they had the chance back in March. I don’t think Ford had a good plan. But rather than taking the mature route and calling a time out until there was a better assessment of Toronto’s needs and abilities, Stintz and her allies chose to vote through a plan that the majority of Torontonians did not want, is very expensive and does not bring any rapid transit to Scarborough…