ArchiveSeptember 2015

The Gardiner East. Months after Toronto City Council voted 24-21 in favour of the “hybrid option” for the section of the Gardiner Expressway between Jarvis Street and the Don Valley Parkway, there’s some buyer’s remorse in the air at city hall. It’s like some councillors want to return the Gardiner they bought to the store and get something that fits them a little better. Last week, the city’s...

Green For Life has been contracted to collect trash from city blocks west of Yonge St. For some members of Toronto City Council, there are political beliefs so strongly held that they practically become religion. Take, for example, the notion of contracting out city services to the private sector. For those who worship at the Blessed Church of Privatization, there’s no doubt that contracting will...

A streetcar heads east on Gerrard St. as vehicle traffic passes on the Don Valley Parkway below. One of the challenges that comess with writing about road pricing in Toronto is that we’ve never had great data. Absent even guesstimate figures on the cost of implementing a road toll system in Toronto — and the potential revenue that’d come from slapping a price on the city’s major arteries...