Toronto needs federal tax dollars for transit for all Torontonians and visitors, not for the port authority to build Porter Airlines a tunnel to the Island Airport. It's a scandal to use our money this way, to benefit one private business.
1. Every city in the world that has a small airport nearby is trying to close it down or reduce traffic, because of horrendous problems of pollution, noise, terrorist attacks, etc. The exception is when it is used by self-serving federal and state politicians as in Washington DC, and now in Toronto!
2. The Environmental Assessment proposed should be done instead on whether the airport should be there, at all, and NOT on the need for a pedestrian tunnel to the island, and on the Airport's negative impact on the benefits of millions being spent to revitalise the Waterfront for the future.
3. A more cost-effective expenditure would be to extend the PATH system for Pedestrians from Union Station to Queens Quay so that the millions already coming to the Waterfront are not subject to the disgraceful service of TTC's congested streetcars (running two stops only at over capacity). More families can come into the city's waterfront by transit to Union stn. Keep cars at home.
4. The Island Airport is a misuse of public taxpayers money!!!!!!
5. PLEASE CAN SOMEONE GET THIS MESSAGE OUT ON TO FACEBOOK AND OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKS TO SAVE OUR CITY FROM THIS SHORTSIGHTEDNESS OF OUR POLITICIANS, AND TO SAFEGUARD OUR FUTURE FOR THE GENERATIONS AHEAD. THANK YOU
1. Every city in the world that has a small airoprt nearby is trying to close it down or reduce traffic, because of horrendous problems of pollution, noise etc. The exception is when it is used by self-serving federal and state politicians as in Washington DC, and now in Toronto!
2. The Environmental Assessment proposed should be done instead on whether the airport should be there, NOT on the need for a pedestrian tunnel to the island, and its negative impact over the millions being spent to revitalise the Waterfront for the future.
3. A more cost-effective expenditure would be to extend the PATH system from Union Station to Queens Quay so that the millions already coming to the Waterfront are not subject to the disgraceful service of TTC's congested streetcars (running two stops only at over capacity).
4. The Island Airport is a misuse of public taxpayers money!!!!!!
5. PLEASE CAN SOMEONE GET THIS MESSAGE OUT OF FACEBOOK TO SAFEGUARD OUR FUTURE FOR THE GENERATIONS AHEAD. THANK YOU
Michael Brown - 15 years ago
If we had only built the Spadina Expressway, then we would be saving 7 or 8 minutes commuting to work every day.
We didn't get the Spadina Expressway and Toronto turned out okay. The choice to push public transportation and not just public expressways, is what ensued.
In Toronto we are at another key juncture in the use of public space. We need the island airport today like we needed the Spadina Expressway 35 years ago.
Zoya Panda - 15 years ago
We need a waterfront and Islands for people and events, not for planes, traffic and pollution. We must have train service to & from Pearson; ditto bus service, as in Europe.
Toronto needs federal tax dollars for transit for all Torontonians and visitors, not for the port authority to build Porter Airlines a tunnel to the Island Airport. It's a scandal to use our money this way, to benefit one private business.
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1. Every city in the world that has a small airport nearby is trying to close it down or reduce traffic, because of horrendous problems of pollution, noise, terrorist attacks, etc. The exception is when it is used by self-serving federal and state politicians as in Washington DC, and now in Toronto!
2. The Environmental Assessment proposed should be done instead on whether the airport should be there, at all, and NOT on the need for a pedestrian tunnel to the island, and on the Airport's negative impact on the benefits of millions being spent to revitalise the Waterfront for the future.
3. A more cost-effective expenditure would be to extend the PATH system for Pedestrians from Union Station to Queens Quay so that the millions already coming to the Waterfront are not subject to the disgraceful service of TTC's congested streetcars (running two stops only at over capacity). More families can come into the city's waterfront by transit to Union stn. Keep cars at home.
4. The Island Airport is a misuse of public taxpayers money!!!!!!
5. PLEASE CAN SOMEONE GET THIS MESSAGE OUT ON TO FACEBOOK AND OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKS TO SAVE OUR CITY FROM THIS SHORTSIGHTEDNESS OF OUR POLITICIANS, AND TO SAFEGUARD OUR FUTURE FOR THE GENERATIONS AHEAD. THANK YOU
1. Every city in the world that has a small airoprt nearby is trying to close it down or reduce traffic, because of horrendous problems of pollution, noise etc. The exception is when it is used by self-serving federal and state politicians as in Washington DC, and now in Toronto!
2. The Environmental Assessment proposed should be done instead on whether the airport should be there, NOT on the need for a pedestrian tunnel to the island, and its negative impact over the millions being spent to revitalise the Waterfront for the future.
3. A more cost-effective expenditure would be to extend the PATH system from Union Station to Queens Quay so that the millions already coming to the Waterfront are not subject to the disgraceful service of TTC's congested streetcars (running two stops only at over capacity).
4. The Island Airport is a misuse of public taxpayers money!!!!!!
5. PLEASE CAN SOMEONE GET THIS MESSAGE OUT OF FACEBOOK TO SAFEGUARD OUR FUTURE FOR THE GENERATIONS AHEAD. THANK YOU
If we had only built the Spadina Expressway, then we would be saving 7 or 8 minutes commuting to work every day.
We didn't get the Spadina Expressway and Toronto turned out okay. The choice to push public transportation and not just public expressways, is what ensued.
In Toronto we are at another key juncture in the use of public space. We need the island airport today like we needed the Spadina Expressway 35 years ago.
We need a waterfront and Islands for people and events, not for planes, traffic and pollution. We must have train service to & from Pearson; ditto bus service, as in Europe.