(Editor's Note: This is a press release from CommunityAIR) For Immediate Release Wednesday, November 22, 2017 Contact: Brian Iler, Chair 416‑598‑0544 (work direct) We were struck by the preliminary cost estimate in yesterday’s report to the City of Toronto’s Executive Committee for the proposed Rail Deck Park project (8.3 hectares; 20 acres) is $1.665 billion (2017 constant dollars) or ...
Max Moore: Airport Subsidies or Toronto Parks
For: Toronto Star, Letter to the Editor Re: Airport Subsidies or Toronto Parks On one hand, Councillor Cressy is asking for $1.6 Billion dollars, to create a 20 acre Raildeck Park in downtown Toronto. With the other hand, the city is currently subsidizing Toronto Island Airport by renting 40 acres of prime island parkland to the Port Authority ...
CommunityAIR public meeting
CommunityAIR public meeting: Time: Thursday November 16, 8:00 pm, Harbourfront Community Centre This meeting has been called to discuss the glaring lack of democratic representation on the Toronto Port Authority (now renamed Ports Toronto) Board of Directors. The following report summarizes the issues. What Happened to the Liberals’ Promise to Reform the Toronto Port Authority? A Report by ...
Western Beaches Threatened
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WESTERN BEACHES In 2005, $23 million was spent on a 600 M breakwall for the 2006 Club Crew World Dragonboat Championships. In 2009, Council approved the Western Beaches Master Plan, where use of the 4.4 km waterway from Ontario Place to the Humber River be primarily flat-water, an area that provides protected ...
Airport Noise Complaint, Sept. 19, 2017
Max Moore is a resident of Bathurst Quay and a member of CommunityAIR. He sent this e-mail today at 3:39 AM. Editor's note. For: Joe Cressy, Toronto City Council Re: Island Airport Noise Complaint, Sept. 19, 2017 I'm laying in bed at 3 am, listening to a loud hydrovac machine, which makes 94 DBC Decibels of noise, at the ...
Porter cancels routes
Porter Airlines has cancelled routes from Toronto Island Billy Bishop Airport to North Bay and Pittsburgh. Service to North Bay began in October 2015 and will terminate on September 11, 2017. Porter has had two flights a day to Pittsburgh starting in September 2015. This route will also terminate in September of this year. In both ...