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Who gets your vote for Mayor of Toronto?

  • Ana Bailao

    Votes: 18 16.4%

  • Brad Bradford

    Votes: 3 2.7%

  • Olivia Chow

    Votes: 58 52.7%

  • Mitzie Hunter

    Votes: 2 1.8%

  • Josh Matlow

    Votes: 20 18.2%

  • Mark Saunders

    Votes: 4 3.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 5 4.5%
  • Total voters
    110
  • Poll closed .
Currently, under Mayor John Tory, the single-occupant automobile gets a higher priority than public transit.

We see that on the streetcar right-of-ways on St. Clair and Spadina. Three or four single-occupant automobiles turning left go first ahead of the 100+ people on board the streetcars in the right-of-way trying to go forward to the platform on the other side of the intersection. REAL transit priority signals is needed. DO NOT UNDERFUND THE TTC as it is today.

Remember this tweet...
https://twitter.com/x/status/1590343455250993152

Or this tweet, where the streetcar takes upwards of 3 minutes to leave Broadview Station. And we just complain about bunching, when we see the remedy, REAL transit priority traffic signals. All surface transit loops, off-street or subway, needs REAL transit priority traffic signals...
https://twitter.com/x/status/1605331887962353665

We need a mayor who can change the city's priorities. Currently, the single-occupant automobile gets #1 priority.

The next mayor needs to change it to...
  • #1 priority—emergency vehicles
  • #2 priority—pedestrians
  • #3 priority—public transit
  • #4 priority—cycling
  • #5 priority—delivery & contractor trucks
  • #6 priority—autos with more than one person #7 priority—single-occupant autos
  • #8 priority—personal trucks or SUVs
 
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We need a mayor who will actually make Vision Zero a priority, ahead of the auto.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1624864817772109826

Vision Zero is underfunded. No funds for radar or proximity sensors for pedestrians, no funds for pedestrian refugee islands, but there is funds for the automobile.

We need a parking levy on commercial parking spaces, which would become a needed revenue tool. It should be paid by the actual user, the auto parking at that parking spot, and NOT hidden as an operating expense for the goods or services. Parking meters at commercial parking lots and garages would be outcome. The 905 cities should do that as well to their commercial parking spaces. The Toronto Eaton Centre has paid parking and is the busiest shopping mall in Canada (there is 15 minutes of FREE parking to help facilitate efficient and safe curbside and storefront pickups, so maybe allow a 15 minute courtesy as well for all commercial parking spaces as well).
 
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W. K. Lis said:
Currently, under Mayor John Tory, the single-occupant automobile gets a higher priority than public transit.

We see that on the streetcar right-of-ways on St. Clair and Spadina. Three or four single-occupant automobiles turning left go first ahead of the 100+ people on board the streetcars in the right-of-way trying to go forward to the platform on the other side of the intersection. REAL transit priority signals is needed. DO NOT UNDERFUND THE TTC as it is today.
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I don't like John Tory anymore than the next guy, but:

1) the lack of transit priority has been a problem long before him, it is not his legacy, and;
2) the reference to the TTC being underfunded is irrelevant. TSP costs nothing to implement.
 
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40 percent above the limit shouldn't be a ticket? I'd like to see the traffic engineers or those who suggested the speeds comment.

The following is bot meant to be snarky but genuine curiosity... I always see comment about traffic (speeding) infractions as 'money grabs' but don't see any evidence to support. Could it be a lack of understand why speeds are set particular ways?

To keep on topic, are there any candidates that don't agree with the cameras?
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I think there is a case to be made that where the design of the road supports much higher speeds, aggressively enforcing low speed limits is pretty dodgy. We should be updating the design of these streets with traffic calming consistent with 30 kph speed limits. Yes, yes. We need to wait for major street reconstructions to narrow streets, etc. Big ass boulders are cheap. Speed humps are relatively cheap.
 
Yeah there really was no candidate from the traditional Toronto left organizers last election. Penelosa is more of a free agent who is progressive and appeals to similar voters, but he's not of the city's left establishment or a candidate who was running with the NDP organizing structure behind him, etc.

This time I think almost certainly we're going to see a candidate from that NDP wing, with the organizational and political positives and negatives that come along with that — Layton, or Karpoche, or Bravo, or someone else.

EDIT, on that subject: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-mayor-john-tory-progressive-candidates-1.6747288

According to multiple sources, left-of-centre candidates being asked to consider running include:

  • Mike Layton, a three-term city councillor from 2010 to 2022 and son of the late Jack Layton, who served as a Toronto councillor and federal NDP leader
  • Kristyn Wong-Tam, also a three-term city councillor who went on to win the riding of Toronto Centre for the NDP in the 2022 provincial election
  • Bhutila Karpoche, the New Democrat MPP for Parkdale-High Park since 2018
The runner-up to Tory in October's election, Gil Penalosa, says he intends to run. Other potential mayoral candidates who haven't ruled out running include Beaches-East York councillor Brad Bradford, Toronto-St Paul's councillor Josh Matlow and the former councillor for Davenport, Ana Bailão.
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"We really do need to come together to have a unified progressive voice running in this election," said Hay, who ran Jagmeet Singh's winning campaign for the federal NDP leadership and served on Mike Layton's city hall staff for six years.
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John Tory was a lawyer and Queen’s Counsel (likely now King’s Counsel). He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Trinity College at the University of Toronto in 1975. He received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1978 from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. He was called to the bar in Ontario in 1980.

Unlike Doug Ford, who dropped out of Humber College after 2 months, because he “was bored silly in the lectures.”

So John Tory actually knows what he’s doing, picking the time when he will hand in his formal resignation letter to the city clerk. No sooner nor later.
 
Assuming that there would be not enough time to add "YES or NO" referendum questions to the ballot? Too bad the province will just veto it, like they always do with Toronto. Like how they ignored the amalgamation referendum in 1997, where over three-quarters of voters rejected amalgamation.
 
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