That's just the Executive Cmte wanted (pvt citizens on the board). That can be amended no problem if that's what council wants. What this really does is it gives an easy opportunity to reconstitute the board without a special meeting.

We all knew this was coming..The Star reports on the talks around reconstituting the TTC board. I'd be very, very, surprised if the board looks the same a month from now.

From The Star

Matt posts here. That's how I first found his blog :)

Norm Kelly misvoted. But then Thompson and Minnan-Wong flipped and voted to support the item, so it won by an even larger margin.

Oops on the spelling. I'd expect Stintz would want to be made chair again given all she's doing?

Clearly a new Commission will be needed. Who do you think will be on it? I'd expect it's members to come from those voting for TC. So I wouldn't be surprised if Augimeri, Parker and Stintz (I'd be surprised if she _isn't_ there.) Who else? Maybe Mihevic would want to return? A number of...

I would think it would be council....

Would it? Work was never cancelled. Wednesday's motion simply reaffirms the existing MoU with the Province (TC).

Hopefully they resume planning on them then :)

They'll probably have to replace or eliminate the powers of the striking committee, replace the executive committee and replace the TTC board at another special meeting.

ssiguy just said he thought Doug Ford was implying that the Eglinton line would use subway cars. I'm saying that I just think he doesn't know what he's talking about.

I wouldn't read much into that. I think in their world subway = below ground and streetcar = above ground.

She actually asked for the Fords blessing before saying anything about the Eglinton LRT. She thought she got that blessing from Doug Ford. She was trying to toe the line, but got screwed over in the process. She was trying to be as loyal as possible and was willing to gut her own organization to...

She first wanted to put the money towards the new streetcars. Then, when the city solicitor said that she couldn't do that, she wanted the money to be directed towards wheeltrans. She was just desperate to do what the Fords wanted, and they were desperate to cut service.

Could the chair not just be overruled?

Yea, I was trying to get at that (sorry for the confusion). If a new garage will be well over 100M (Mt Dennis was 92M in 2006-7) then that's a significant expense not being accounted for. If the city has to purchases the buses then that's another big expense not being accounted for. And if using...

Rob Ford does not support this. This was councillors trying to help him not look like a fool.

Yup – finally!

It depends what they mean by BRT. If they mean segregated lanes on the street (LRT minus the rails) then that's one thing. If they mean some paint here and a queue jump lane there...... well, that's something different entirely. From what I can guess, assuming they're talking about the former...