Transit City is Dead: Now What?

This meetup is the second in our four part "Now What?" series. The first looked at the post-Kyoto world of climate change policy. Aka. "Kyoto's Dead: Now What?" This one looks at the "Now What?" for Toronto transit.

Upon taking office Mayor Rob Ford made several substantive changes to Toronto's transit policy. The first was to kill the vehicle registration tax to the tune of some $60 million. An odd choice for someone who claims to be primarily concerned with balancing the budget. In any case. The second was to kill Transit City. A transit plan that took some fifteen years to evolve from blackboard to groundbreaking.

There is some talk today that the death of Transit City may be exaggerated. There is also talk that the Mayor's grand plan to take the subway from Sheppard to Scarborough Town Centre has run into the brick wall of lack of funding that many of our best informed had predicted.

And while we're on the topic of the well informed there is pretty much no one better able to communicate the current state of Toronto transit policy affairs than our speaker Mr. Steve Munro. He will discuss if there might be life left in the ole Transit City girl yet. Where the Mayor's 'War on the Car' is at, and how his dreams of privately financed sugar plums and subway tales is faring. Finally we'll all take a look at what 'we the people' might do to occupy some space in the debate about where to go from here on our way to the 2015 Pan Am games and 'Gridlock 2031'.