- A transit fare increase and routes to be cut...but he did cut the vehicle registration tax... These two combine to denigrate transit and promote driving - perhaps the wrong direction for a city that so desperately needs better transit and less cars on the road! Not to mention this fare increase basically steals from the poor (transit riders) and gives to the more wealthy (automobile owners).
- Ford's "Campaign Math" proves inaccurate as imagined in-efficiencies turn out to be much much less than expected...and do not provide the savings promised
- A balanced budget in 2011 is only possible due to last years surplus...look out in 2012!
- The penny pincher who promised a reduction of 2.5% has actually brought in an budget with a 1% increase in the operating costs...the biggest budget in Toronto history.
- His plan to save money on the backs of the poor...by moving them from shelters to motels where they will have to fend for themselves...is either callous or ignorant.
The editorial in the Star today covers many of these topics and is a harbinger of what is to come...Toronto bought "the man with no plan"...I think we are about to see the results of that action...
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/919354--toronto-s-budgetford-chooses-driversover-transit-users
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