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Matt Gurney: Rob Ford’s 1,000-year plan to build transit in Toronto
There was an intriguing admission hidden amid Rob Ford’s vomit theatrics on Tuesday. The mayor of Canada’s largest city was asked by reporters what he thought about Metrolinx’s revenue-generation...
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Matt Gurney: What Terence Corcoran got right, and wrong, about traffic...
I feel a bit lousy jumping on my colleague Terence Corcoran’s back so soon after my other colleague Chris Selley did so, but I do feel compelled to respond to Terry’s recent piece on traffic congestion...
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Matt Gurney: Ontario’s new transportation minister steps into the Metrolinx...
Politicians who like to speak sometimes get in trouble for saying too much. This is something that Ontario’s recently installed Minister of Transportation, Glen Murray, ought to keep in mind. Mr....
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Matt Gurney: Rob Ford’s opponents gang up and force a victory upon him
Toronto politics has always been a little bit funny. But I can’t help but feel that it’s getting a little bit weirder lately. Take this week’s much discussed “revenue-tool” vote at city hall. A variety...
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Kelly McParland: Weak links abound in Metrolinx funding plan
I can see several reasons why a list of “transit-expansion revenue tools” recommended by the provincial transit agency Metrolinx on Monday might be in for a rough ride. First, here’s the list: A one...
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Matt Gurney: Metrolinx proposes taxes everyone will pay for a plan no one wants
On Monday, Metrolinx — the provincial agency tasked with expanding transit throughout the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) — submitted its recommendations for new “revenue tools” to the provincial...
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Scott Stinson: Ontario government could find another way to fund transit if...
Not long after the non-elected members of the Metrolinx board explained their reasons for advocating $50-billion in new taxes to fund a public-transit expansion plan, it was hard to find an elected...
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Terence Corcoran: Transit funding report from Metrolinx rolls out old ideas
Years in the making, millions spent, thousands of participants — but through it all, the agency charged with imagining a new regional transportation system expansion for Canada’s largest metropolitan...
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Kelly McParland: Toronto’s traffic plan pays the price of long-term lousy...
It’s tempting, in a way, to praise Ontario’s newish premier, Kathleen Wynne, for her courage. Her predecessor, Dalton McGuinty, never had the nerve — or perhaps it was the interest — to wade into the...
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Matt Gurney: The NDP’s strange definition of ‘fair and balanced’
As discussed here on Monday, Metrolinx, Ontario’s provincial transit agency, has recommended several “revenue tools” be used to fund infrastructure projects in the Greater Toronto Area. The region...
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Full Pundit: Will Ontarians pay for public transit?
Let’s hear it for revenue tools Gridlocked Ontarians ponder a temporary refund adjustment, and at Toronto City Hall … holy cow, it just keeps getting worse. The National Post‘s Scott Stinson wasn’t...
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Kelly McParland: Kathleen Wynne ties her fortunes to the Big Move’s big gamble
When an Ontario election comes, which could be at any time, it appears possible it will play out as a referendum on taxes versus transportation. Premier Kathleen Wynne, having presumably sniffed the...
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National Post editorial board: Don’t make the rest of us pay for Toronto transit
On Thursday, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty threw a wrench into Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s efforts to create dedicated streams of revenue to fund transit expansion in the Toronto region....
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Full Pundit: Canada’s complicated relationship with freedom
WEEKEND ROUNDUP The freedom to intoxicate Postmedia’s Andrew Coyne prepares a list of things that Canada’s provincial premiers might do at their annual gatherings that would make them worth paying...
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Full Pundit: Call a wambulance for Canada’s wireless giants
Verizon to the rescue? In a cringe-inducing paean to Canadian mediocrity, Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank worries that while allowing Verizon into the Canadian wireless market might “save...
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Matt Gurney: If Ontario needs anything, it’s more expert panels on...
I had one of those commutes this morning. I was heading from my home to an appearance with my friend (and National Post contributor) John Moore, at NewsTalk 1010. In optimal traffic conditions, that’s...
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Ontario minister may need to cozy up to other levels of government if he...
COMMENT It was a dreamy photo op for any politician. Glen Murray, Ontario’s minister of transportation, stood resplendent in a hardhat and reflective orange safety vest, in a gaping hole at Eglinton...
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Metrolinx threatens to stop work on Scarborough LRT if city council won't...
The provincial agency in charge of transit expansion in Toronto is threatening to stop work on a light rail line to replace the ageing Scarborough rapid transit line, if city council does not reaffirm...
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‘Over my dead body will people in Scarborough be left out of transit':...
TORONTO — Ontario’s governing Liberals say they’re open to a proposed subway for east-end Toronto, after nixing the proposal just two months ago. Metrolinx, Ontario’s transportation agency, is already...
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Passengers stranded for hours on flooded GO Train to get $100 credit…for more...
Passengers stranded for hours when flood waters overtook a Richmond Hill GO train Monday evening will each get a $100 GO credit for their troubles. GO Transit will upload $100 to the PRESTO cards of...
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