Metrolinx Regional Transportation Plan approved

At their November 28 board meeting, Metrolinx unanimously approved their Regional Transportation Plan and Investment Strategy; The Big Move: Transforming Transportation in the GTHA, which will have significant ...

[P3 Private Investments]

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[Tolls still there]

Early Metrolinx plan had road tolls

Tess Kalinowski 2008/12/05

Metrolinx was considering ways to sell the public on road tolls and other congestion-related charges even as it stalled a second time last summer on releasing its landmark 25-year draft Regional Transportation Plan...

http://www.thestar.com/article/548824

[Tess Kalinowski]

The Metrolinx Regional Transportation Plan recommends waiting five years before deciding how to pay for the bulk of its suggested

$50 Billion in regional transit improvements...

http://www.thestar.com/article/545796

[FCM]

Regional municipality issued warning over debt servicing North America & probably many more to Come

The province/state of Nova Scotia has issued a warning to the

Cape Breton Regional Municipality over its ability to service the long-term debt,

which has climbed to around $105 million, and ...

TOM AYERS The Cape Breton Post SYDNEY World -

http://www.topix.com/world/canada/2008/12/reg...

[Adam Giambrone]

Slappity slap slap slap.

That's the sound of democracy.

You could hear it loud and clear the other night just up the street,

courtesy of the residents of Lansdowne Ave.;

they were teaching their young city councillor,

Adam Giambrone, a lesson...

http://www.thestar.com/GTA/Columnist/article/...

[Easy]

Steelworkers bid to organize cabbies across Ontario

2 hrs ago | SooToday

NEWS RELEASE UNITED STEELWORKERS **********iWorkers' to launch campaign to represent Ontario taxi drivers WHAT: News conference to launch Independent Workers Association Taxi Section.
Comment?

Related Topix: North York (Toronto, ON), Canada, Toronto, ON, Ontario, York (Toronto, ON), Halton, Canada, Canada, World News

http://sootoday.com/content/news/full_story.a...

[Superhighways]

Obama warns economy to worsen before it improves

WASHINGTON (AP)- President-elect Barack Obama wants to make something very clear: The economy is not going to immediately recover when he takes his oath of office, but he has a plan to get the country moving.

Obama introduced a recovery plan "equal to the task" that would be the largest public works spending program since the interstate highway system was build a half-century ago...

http://www.topix.com/us/politics/2008/12/obam...

[Georgetown GO line]

Airport rail link

,,, The Ministry of Transportation has taken the airport link file away from GO Transit and

handed it to Metrolinx, the GTA-wide transit planning authority...

[another Coalition]

http://westoncommunitycoalition.ca/

... Mike Sullivan, chair of the Weston Community Coalition that was founded to oppose the project,

in the form, it was 1st proposed, which of course was the cheapest option, still has reservations about the link.

http://www.mississauganews.com/article/22109

He said Metrolinx should use electric trains instead of diesel,

bury the tracks in tunnels through residential neighbourhoods and

make local stops instead of running express to the airport...

[Tess Kalinowski]

Road tolls still a talking point

Show us the money. For months, that's been the mantra of the municipal politicians on the Metrolinx board.

http://www.thestar.com/article/558509

[Thurs Feb 12]

Thursday, February 12
Gordon Alcott Memorial Arena,
221 Guelph Street,
(Highway 7 across from the Georgetown Marketplace,
north of Halton Hills Shopping Centre)
Georgetown.

http://transit.toronto.on.ca/archives/weblog/...

[Thurs Feb 12]

Map(s) of the Week: How we commute

http://thestar.blogs.com/maps/2008/08/map-of-...

[GO Transit]

http://www.gotransit.com/

http://www.gotransit.com/gotrip/detailsSchdDi...

http://www.gotransit.com/gotrip/00014/map1_sm...

http://westoncommunitycoalition.ca/

many links there don't work at all leading you on a Merry GO round

http://www.georgetownpearsonstudy.ca/

[Guelph meeting info]

Local commuters anxious for GO service

GUELPH (Feb 13, 2009)-- Nicole O'Reilly

For many at last night's GO Transit public meeting,...

http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/43...

Your next meeting is Tuesday at the Library with hopefully a formal presentation session to learn

[Where do You Live]

http://www.bigmove.ca/roundtable