Spacing Toronto's Chris Bateman looks at the history of South Parkdale, a part of the neighbourhood of the same name that got obliterated in the mid-20th century by the construction of the Gardiner.

No Toronto neighbourhood paid for the Gardiner Expressway quite like Parkdale ( Read more... )

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The Toronto Star's David Rider reports on how Toronto city manager Peter Wallace has criticized the Ontario government's refusal to let Toronto levy tolls on the Gardiner Expressway and the Don Valley Parkway.

By flip-flopping on tolls Premier Kathleen Wynne has robbed Toronto of badly needed revenue, prolonged gridlock and undercut the city’s ( Read more... )

Spacing Toronto's John Lorinc writes about how Premier Kathleen Wynne's decision to not let Toronto impose tolls on the Gardiner Expressway and the Don Valley Parkway weakens John Tory's position.

What she did, in a way that breaks from her mostly civil approach to politics, was to play Mayor John Tory for a fool. Whatever else you might think ( Read more... )

At Torontoist, Tricia Wood argues that, if we try, the rejection by the Ontario government of Toronto imposing tolls on the Gardiner and the DVP can inspire creative thinking abut the future of the city.

The Premier is right to say, in her decision not to approve road tolls, that Toronto residents need better transit options. But under the ( Read more... )

This report in The Globe and Mail was a surprise to read last night. I have no idea as to how this will rebound onto politics in Toronto and wider Ontario.

In a stunning about-face, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne will announce Friday that she will refuse to give Toronto permission to go ahead with Mayor John Tory’s plan to toll the Gardiner ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Jennifer Pagliaro writes about the continued problems with funding the maintenace of the increasingly decrepit Gardiner Expressway.

City council has voted to move forward with plans for rehabilitating the Gardiner Expressway, backing a staff plan estimated to reduce the ballooning costs of the work by more than $1 billion ( Read more... )

Spacing Toronto's John Lorinc is fed up with the NDP's failure to get Toronto voters, most recently on the road toll issue.

How long do progressives and urban dwellers more generally have to wait before Ontario’s NDP stops compensating (atoning?) for former premier Bob Rae’s decision, circa the early 1990s, to slap tolls on Highway 407 ( Read more... )

Chris Selley writes in the National Post about Tory's defense of his road toll plan.

Mayor John Tory visited the National Post editorial board Thursday to defend his plan to toll the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway, putting the proceeds toward some $33 billion in approved-but-unfunded capital projects, notably public transit ( Read more... )

Torontoist's Tricia Wood takes issue with the idea of imposing road tolls on the Gardiner and the DVP, arguing it would be an unfair tax and that it would not necessarily encourage people to shift to transit.

Road tolls are unfair. Several people have raised the good point that more wealthy citizens drive-but if we manage to tax the wealthy more ( Read more... )