多伦多冰灾，节省80万与损失800万+，有多少关系？

骑兵连连长

多伦多的这场冰雨，令30多万人遭受灾害。从这次灾难中，我们确实应该反思一下。这场冰雨真的不应该形成这么严重的灾害，仅仅是一场冰雨而已，如果平时注意搞好树木，线路的维护，应该不会出现这么大的问题。记得我在国内城市的电力部门以前每年都对影响线路的树枝进行修剪。后来大多线路都埋入地下了。一个不很重视安全，比较落后的国家都能做到的事，反而在发达的，注重安全的加拿大的最大城市做不到。我们确实应该问个为什么？联想到夏天的一场暴雨，即让交通瘫痪，停电。时常出现的水道爆裂等等市政问题。我们要问我们每年交的那么多税都哪里去了？市民的裞几乎每年都要增加，可为什么看不到市政设施的改善？修个地铁没有钱，但为什么给公共领域利益集团增加薪水就有钱了呢？难道我们交的税都拿去给他们增加薪水了吗？
xuxi 发表于 2013-12-26 11:48

皇上应该去问问您的偶像——多伦多市长福特。

8字在中国人中是个吉利数字。

2011年，多伦多推出2012多市预算。市长福特要给警察涨工资，而对多伦多众多部门实施削减服务（有的伴之以增收费），公园及林木管理局就是其中之一。其中一项削支项目就是：取消原有的主动、定期修理树枝的工作，改为“被动”修理。“被动”的意思就是平时的修理就取消了，只有出了问题，员工才出去修剪树枝。
此举为多伦多市府节省80万元，我相信这已经列为市长福特的政绩之一。
2013年，多伦多发生冰灾。30万户断电，多伦多电力公司至今在抢修，温莎、渥太华、苏圣玛丽等电力公司也来支援，有很多邻近的电力公司在抢修完自己区内的断电户之后，也赶到多伦多来支援。据报导，此次断电将为多伦多电力公司造成损失达8百万到1千万。当然，这是自然灾害，与市长无关......。

至于说地上电缆和地下电缆，多伦多电力公司有地上电缆1.51万公里，地下电缆1.08万公里。据电力公司CEO介绍，地下电缆的费用远高过地上电缆。您要把1.51万公里的改建成地下电缆，需要多少钱？

节省80万，与损失800万之间有多大联系，我想没人能说清楚。

但是我知道有很多损失是不能以钱来计算的，比如说有些人在零下温度的环境下挨冻了8天，比如说有老人、孩子或身体弱者因此而染上疾病或失去生命，比如说有很多人度过了一个又黑又冷的圣诞.......!

市长自己不着急，你能如何急？如果市长在7天以前就宣布紧急状态，也许本地的居民会看到多伦多市府很看重这件事情，外地的支援会来得早一点。费用不见得有所增加或减少，但是救援的时间也许就不需要8天时间。

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下面文章登载于2011年：

http://www.mytowncrier.ca/trees-trimmed-in-budget-proposal.html


Trees trimmed in budget proposal
Local councillors concerned about implications of plan on their wards
Tags: Politics, City Hall, City Council, Budget Proposals, Service Cuts, MAry Fragedakis, Mary Margaret McMahon, Toronto-Danforth, Beaches-East York, Ward 29, Ward 32, Emerald Ash Borer, Toronto Transit Commission
By Karolyn Coorsh
December 29, 2011

Neighbourhoods: Beach / Upper Beach Todmorden Village / Playter Estates / Danforth Village / Central East York

Originally published in our Riverdale-East York print edition(s).

Two east-end councillors say they will fight to keep the city’s tree canopy program on course, despite possible budgets cuts.

Days after the 2012 draft operating and capital budgets were unveiled, Ward 32 councillor Mary Margaret McMahon said she was concerned about how cuts to Toronto’s tree maintenance program will impact neighbourhoods in her ward.

The draft budget proposes merging two parks and rec tree canopy programs into one, saving almost $1 million, and reducing the hazardous tree abatement program by returning to a previous reactive approach to responding to dangerous trees in parks and natural areas.

Also recommended in the operating budget is extending a multi-year implementation and financing plan for tree maintenance, protection and planting from eight to 10 years.  

“Right now as it is, the staff can’t keep up with the tree maintenance, so we really need to be looking at new, innovative ideas,” McMahon said.  

She suggested looking into expanding citizen-led tree stewardship programs, like those currently operating in Leslieville.

Councillor Mary Fragedakis, whose Ward 29 is kitty-corner to McMahon’s, echoed the same concerns. She said in the days since the budget’s launch, she’s been receiving many emails from those concerned about cuts to urban forestry.

“That is a huge no-no for me personally, and for a lot of people in the east-end,” Fragedakis said. “With climate change and the severity of the storms that we’ve been getting, our tree canopy has been under attack for a good five to 10 years.”

Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests’ executive director Janet McKay said though its unclear how the 2012 cuts could affect the overall target to double the tree canopy by 2050, incremental cuts to maintenance are a step backward.

“What I see in this is immediately less scary than I thought it would be, but I think it’s just the first step,” she said. “I think overall, maintaining that target and timeline is really important because if we start to chip away at that gradually, we’re heading backwards.”

McKay pointed out the city’s loss of trees to the Emerald Ash Borer problem as further indication the city should be accelerating the tree planting program in order to offset a reduction in the overall tree canopy.

“We shouldn’t be weakening our efforts, we should be strengthening them because we’re facing this huge loss,” McKay said. “Over eight percent of the canopy is going to be gone.”  

Despite concerns, McMahon said the 2012 draft city budget could be far worse.

“There’s not an awful lot of blood on the floor, that’s what people are saying,” she said.  

The proposed budget calls for a 10-cent TTC fare increase, about 2,300 in city staff job cuts and a 2.5 percent tax hike.

McMahon, considered a member of council’s centrist clan, says she was expecting to see a higher jump in property tax.

“That’s a modest increase compared to other municipalities in the GTA and the province,” she said adding she was pleased to see the possibility of shuttering city-owned museums is off the table.   

Citizens worried about mass cuts were bracing themselves after Ford’s call to reduce city department budgets by 10 percent across the board. The budget’s launch followed months of unprecedented public consultation, with many voicing outrage at the prospect of cuts to what they saw as key city services.

McMahon acknowledged the 2012 budget includes other cuts she will oppose, especially regarding the proposed slashing of library hours and aquatic programs, and a reduction TTC service.

“There shouldn’t be cuts in transit, we should be expanding it,” she said.  

McMahon was optimistic that council will find a happy compromise during the budget vote, set for Jan. 17–19.  

“Anything can happen (at council), but everyone has their little pet projects that they want to save, and I think if we have good ideas as to how to make them sustainable, how to get a cost recovery model for some of them and some we fund with the surplus, I think it’ll look better.”