今天,TTC又被爆新闻:市长候选人揭露TTC的一项秘密计划:没钱、年年准备涨价的TTC准备盖新的办公楼,以适应日益增多的办公人员。
Wed May. 05 2010 4:40:55 PM Smitherman condemns 'secret' plan for new TTC headquartersWeb Staff, cp24.com http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20091108/320_cp24_smitherman_filer.jpg George Smitherman speaks in a file photo. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Pawel Dwulit)
Mayoral candidate George Smitherman has come out swinging against TTC plans to open what he called a "gleaming new headquarters."
Smitherman says the Toronto Transit Commission plans to vote on the matter on Thursday and that the plans had been kept secret until the past 24 hours.
"There's apparently a secret report been floating around," he tells CP24. "Tomorrow there's a meeting that will no doubt be in camera. There will not be an opportunity for Torontonians and transit users to express their views."
The current TTC headquarters, above Davisville station, opened in 1957.
A supporter of the Transit City plan, Smitherman says he'd like to see any extra money go into service and station improvements instead.
He says he would also consider road tolls, but that it would have to be a region-wide system that goes beyond just Toronto.
On Tuesday, mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi said that he supports liquidating city assets to pay for continuous tunneling to expand the subway. |