SunriseChampion
Senior Member
I know, I've had to drive through there for work more times than I'd like to remember. It's a bit of a wasteland...well, a nice park on the one side, sure...but the built up part? BIA, my eye.
Sorry, what? Is there? Ha, could have fooled me.
What crisis?
There was only Ford's rhetoric attempting to present a false dilemma to justify cutting taxes. He froze taxes and removed revenue sources (VRT) without that magic "gravy" he promised to find to pay for it, creating his own fiscal "crisis".
Good thing Miller's last budget surplus was there to pay for it.
Ridership goes up in a recession down during boom times and thus has very little to do with mayors.
Budget time was a crisis towards the end of Miller's time in office.
It meant the invention of new taxes, going to the province for money and of course, property tax increases.
There was a surplus the last year
In the end, few people liked Miller
How you handle budgets is important.
Budget time was a crisis towards the end of Miller's time in office. It meant the invention of new taxes, going to the province for money and of course, property tax increases. There was a surplus the last year, but that wasn't an administration people trusted to be prudent with surpluses. In the end, few people liked Miller, even though he brought forward many progressive policies for Toronto and showed great leadership on transit. How you handle budgets is important.
What TTC culture? When Miller took office he faced declining ridership and service, obsolete vehicle fleet and infrastructure, and no new subway/LRT lines planned or funded. This is not a problem you solve with "smart cards".
No...Miller launched the Ridership Growth Strategy, and improved service increasing ridership by 100 million.
He replaced the aging bus, streetcar and subway train fleet and invested in state of good repair.
He went out and got $12 billion in upper level govt transit funding for Toronto, which is why we have the Spadina subway extention, the Eglinton subway/LRT and whatever it is that actually ever gets built in Scarborough.
What do we have to thank Ford for....less transit services and an $85 million bill for the pleasure of building nothing in Scarborough?
traffic blitz on out-of-town plates?So, no one wants to talk about Tory's announcement today?
Tory needs to something interesting, like getting tipsy at a wine and cheese event.
There are many factors that effect ridership, but service levels and fare increases is what effects ridership most. This is pretty common knowledge.
Ridership peaked in 1989 and dropped year-over-year because of massive service cuts and fare increases. It didn't start it's year-over-year increases until the Ridership Growth Strategy started making service improvements. And budget/service cuts and fare increases both have everything to do with mayors.
But according to you, we were simply in a "boom" period from 1989-2003, and in a recession since then.
Ridership goes up during higher employment and down during lower employment.Ridership goes up in a recession down during boom times and thus has very little to do with mayors.
Ridership goes up during higher employment and down during lower employment.
This means that ridership goes down during a recession and up during boom times. There's a lesser correlation to gas prices.
Look at this http://fordfortoronto.mattelliott.ca/ graphic: