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Need more information about "STEM-focused" schools. Not the commercials.

Every 30 minutes? Do I hear 20 minutes? I hear 15 minutes from the back. No one for 10 or 5 minutes? The non-transit users say no need for it.

Would those current parks and schools be able to accommodate the crowds generated by the new development? Or will they have to create more?

Replace those parking lots with high density MIXED development (including shops and biergartens) that includes schools, parks, playgrounds, recreation, cycling and walking paths,

Residential On-Street Parking From link. For comparison, from link Now add a parking tax, similar to New York City... Guess if you live in the neighbourhood, one would be exempt from the surtax. If one uses the parking space as a "work" parking spot, they'll be charged the surtax.

Transit funding: Board of trade suggests raising $2B a year through sales, gas and parking taxes HOV toll lanes would also help build a massive transit expansion, says the Toronto Region Board of Trade. From link, dated March 18, 2013.

If the street was designed for 30 km/h then both motorists and cyclists could share the road. Starting with red asphalt and cobblestones to warn motorists to slow down. From link.

Stiles asks Information and Privacy Commissioner and head of Public Service to recover government’s Greenbelt records From link. Official Opposition NDP Leader Marit Stiles has written to the Information and Privacy Commissioner, as well as to the Secretary of the Cabinet and head of Ontario’s...

Sometimes a driving ban doesn't ban them...

Much of the former garrison grounds have become parking. We continue to see that with Ontario Place's parking. Those parking lots have become a barrier for those who take public transit and have to crawl across the series of asphalt deserts to reach Ontario Place, previously and likely continuing.

The province refuses to increase the subsidies it gives to Toronto... From link. New York City charges a 4.5% NYC Sales Tax and a 4% NY State Sales Tax. New York City charges a 10.375% tax and an additional 8% surtax on parking, garaging, or storing motor vehicles in Manhattan. NYC...

Ontario, unfortunately, is unable to spare wildfire fighters. Remember that in 2019, Doug Ford laid off or cut 67% from the Ontario Emergency Forest Firefighting budget. From link.

I see that already. The store's subsidize car users to use their pay parking lot for free, with a "minimum" purchase. Nothing for the rest of us. They are afraid if they were "free", the motorists would use the surrounding stores or restaurants if they use the store's parking lot, taking space...

"I expect you'll see a minimum purchase rule for validation." And if you didn't use a car? Would you get a discount if you walked or cycled or used a bus in?

Here we go folks... a more detailed thread ... on the whole Doug Ford #GravyPlane story.

End "Free Parking" on strip mall and shopping mall parking lots. Have a 15-minute grace period, after which the parking tax gets applying and should be collected by a meter. Should not be a "hidden" tax included as a cost of doing business. The property tax on the parking lot is a "hidden" tax...