Ha! I am all in favor of increasing property taxes, but that (and begging the other two governments) are pretty much the *LEAST* sustainable alternatives there are!

The rationale is that transit loving councilors will think twice about jacking up the toll rate, and car loving councilors will think twice about jacking up the TTC rate. It puts everyone in the same boat. Its a great idea.

It should be spun as a "congestion charge" ie. the expectation will be fewer cars on the road and less rush hour traffic for those who pony up.

I wish I was as confident as you, but after Nov 8th my world view is substantially altered.

In a Post-Trump world, if you don't think Doug Ford has a strong chance to be elected Mayor running against this you need to be more worried. Queen's Park will be *thrilled* by this. Every dollar Toronto raises that can be blamed on the Municipal government is one less dollar the Province...

The problem is not "can he get this through council" - I assume he spent significant political capital behind the scenes to whip enough conservatives on council. The problem is how structurally stable this will be - will it be resistant to reversal come next election? I have my doubts, and then...

Ha! No offense to Kensington, but why does it seem like Kensington is the hub of homeless hippies in Toronto?

This weekend I was driving westbound along Eastern and wanted to turn right onto Sumach. Only at the very last minute did I realize that I would be turning right onto streetcar tracks. Very confusing, and I'm not the only one - shortly afterwards I saw someone actually turn onto them, and follow...

On what metrics? Certainly not affordability, which is what the above poster pointed out.

Correction - it increases tax burden on low income people who also happen to have a huge nest egg in terms of actually owning real estate, and specifically only those who don't qualify for special property tax relief programs (for seniors, disabilities, etc)

I can't believe the goal of ECLRT is not to increase transit ridership. I also think you vastly overestimate the number of people who *choose* to live in Scarborough. There are many desirable areas but mostly people live there because its the only place they can afford, or its where their...

This seems like a solution in search of a problem. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the ferries - the issues are the cost and crowd/flow control at the ferry dock. These can be solved with more ferries, a better designed ferry dock, and a subsidized rate. Much cheaper than building out...

Thanks - great information, and definitely some shenanigans going on there. That being said, if you look at the proposed wards and sketch an imaginary line that might represent "downtown" (Generously, from Keele to DVP), it seems to me there is a net increase of 1, from 6 to 7. Since this is a...

But if they are better balancing the population between 44 wards, and the population growth has been primarily downtown, doesn't that mean downtown will get a larger share of the 44 wards?

The laughable part is that part of the beaches is *already* in Scarborough. In fact, its probably the most expensive part! (Fallingbrook right next to the Hunt Club)

2 years for a new home construction is well outside the norm - doubly so for a porta pottie to be there for 2 years! Feels to me like the construction stalled due to lack of funds. We just had a film shoot for two days in our neighborhood this weekend - I counted no fewer than *twenty* large...

Alvin, my understanding is that the decked portion of Millenium park is, for the most part, the Pritzker pavillion area. If those trees around the Bean are planted on a concrete platform then I will concede that is an impressive feat - not likely to be duplicated on a Toronto budget though...

You keep posting pictures that are showing what I am saying... Look how they are all tiny trunk, "lollipop" trees in planter boxes. (Except for the banyan tree pic which seems unbelievable to me but who knows what the Chinese were able to come up with! :) ) By the way, I think that picture of...

Millenium Park is awesome, and I have been there many many times! But you should realize it is not entirely built on platform - those trees you see are almost certainly planted in the ground (in fact, in the distance of that picture is probably Grant Park)

Any reasonably large sized parking lot downtown could be turned into a nice park that would support a playground or splash pad, a field, park benches, etc. If the city was serious about this effort it would be entirely doable.