TTC St. Clair Station Bus Loop Rehabilitation
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Community Update for July 15, 2015
Josh Matlow2017-05-29T19:23:52+00:00Update on Midtown Power Outages I've heard from many of you that recurring power outages over the past several months have been disrupting your daily lives, from resetting alarm clocks to damaging electronic devices. My family and I have also been affected by these outages and share your frustrations, not only about the inconveniences they [...]
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Pride Flag Raising, City Hall, June 22, 2015
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City Hall and Community Update for June 16, 2015
Josh Matlow2017-05-29T19:23:52+00:00First Meeting of Tenant Issues Committee This Thursday The first meeting of the new Tenant Issues Committee will be this Thursday, June 18, 7-9pm, at City Hall in Committee Room 2. Tenants make up over 50% of Toronto's residents and have specific rights and responsibilities that are governed by City of Toronto by-laws and provincial [...]
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Toronto, East York consider 30 km/h speed limit on residential streets
Josh Matlow2021-02-03T16:07:31+00:00Published on Sun Jun 14 2015
Toronto Star
Ben Spurr
A group of downtown councillors is set to consider a sweeping proposal to slow traffic on residential roads, though city transportation experts are advising against it.
If it’s approved, the speed limit on all local streets in East York and the old city of Toronto would be reduced from 40 to 30 km/h, affecting some 387 km of road.
Councillor Josh Matlow (open Josh Matlow's policard) first proposed the 30 km/h limit last August, a month after 7-year-old Georgia Walsh was struck and killed by a van in Leaside. He argues the lower limit would make roads less dangerous, and cites a 2012 Toronto board of health report that stated pedestrians have an 85 per cent chance of death if hit by a vehicle going 50 km/h, but the risk decreases to only five per cent at 30 km/h.
“When I hear about a kid being hit, there’s an indescribable pain that you feel,” Matlow said. “And if there are clear recommendations on substantive steps that we can take to make our neighbourhoods safer, then I feel a responsibility to act.”
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My Position on the Gardiner Expressway East
Josh Matlow2017-05-29T19:23:52+00:00Dear residents, I’ve always appreciated many aspects of the Gardiner Expressway. It offers one of the most breathtaking views of Toronto’s skyline. The experience of travelling through the city’s core suspended amidst a canyon of shimmering glass towers never fails to excite me. It is a truly awe-inspiring vantage point from which to view [...]
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Lawton Parkette Public Meeting Update
Josh Matlow2018-07-06T16:36:01+00:00On Thursday, May 28 at 7 pm, I hosted a public meeting regarding improvements to the Lawton Parkette at Yonge and Heath Streets. The community came to a clear consensus on the direction for the final design. If you were unable to attend the meeting but would like [...]
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Toronto Star: Scarborough subway routes narrowed to three choices
Josh Matlow2017-05-29T19:23:52+00:00
The Toronto Star
May 27, 2015
Jennifer Pagliaro
With concerns over how to make the Scarborough subway work with SmartTrack, the city has narrowed the options — leaving Mayor John Torywith little choice.
In a presentation sent to councillors Wednesday and obtained by the Star, city staff say the original nine route options for the Scarborough subway have been short-listed to just three: a Midland Ave., McCowan Rd. or Bellamy Rd. corridor.
Among them, Tory’s best choice to avoid duplicating SmartTrack’s route is picking the one farthest east, along Bellamy Rd. — a decision that could cost taxpayers at least $600 million more.
“Due to political interests that favoured a three-stop subway — that’s getting more costly every day — our city planners have been asked to become contortionists, trying to fit extremely expensive square pegs into round holes,” said Councillor Josh Matlow, who has been the most vocal critic of council’s decision to back former mayor Rob Ford's push for a subway.
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The Star: Call for Toronto auditor-general to oversee police
Josh Matlow2015-05-26T18:27:02+00:00May 22, 2015
The Toronto Star
David Rider
Toronto’s police, libraries and public health, funded by city taxpayers to the tune of $1.6 billion this year, should not be able to avoid the auditor-general’s microscope, city councillors said Friday.
Members of the audit committee want the Ontario government to amend the City of Toronto Act to put the agencies under the auditor-general’s purview, just like the TTC and other city-funded bodies, and in the meantime for those agencies to voluntarily submit to audits.
The vote came after Beverly Romeo-Beehler told them that, since becoming auditor-general in December, she asked the chairs of the boards overseeing police libraries and Toronto Public Health to let her office look at their operations to identify “risk” areas that might need auditing.
