NDP MP Olivia Chow is pushing the federal government to develop a plan to deal with gridlock and public transit in the upcoming budget.
She is the party’s transportation critic.
She took the 504 King streetcar in Toronto in her Trinity-Spadina riding on Friday, shoulder to shoulder with a lot of frustrated transit riders.
She said it’s time for the Conservative government to show some leadership.
“In my books I’m not sure that we need 65 fighter jets and I’m not sure we need the senate. The senate itself costs $90-million a year and I know how many streetcars and buses we can purchase with $90-million a year,” she said.
Chow wants the government to include a long-term infrastructure plan in the budget to shorten commute times and fix the country’s crumbling roads and bridges, like the Gardiner Expressway.
She said the current programs aren’t working.
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I’m seeing that many people here have missed the point! We in Toronto have ALREADY PAID for infrastructure, etc., but it went to other juridictions! Let us keep our money in Toronto, and sure! We’ll pay for our own infrastructure! What’s fair is fair! We work just as hard for our money as anyone else does, but we pay so much more of other people’s bills.
Kevin in Taxoronto – exactly. She’ll be worse than Miller. Very scary times ahead.
No comment on doing away with the Senate? Sounds good to me. Wondering if the comments below are from them. Wouldn’t surprise me. Not comforting when someone is questioning your
position. Olivia Chow has the guts to bring this question of why are we paying for the Senate that we really do not need to the table. A question so many of us wonder about and now you can comment on it.
Ollie is passing the buck again! She knows it’s a city and provincial responsability. She was one of the councillors who helped put TO so badly into the red!!!!
Last time I checked, King street traffic was Toronto’s responsibility -Not all of Canada’s Responsibility! How does “fixing crumbling roads” make a street car on rails; commute faster?
Welcome to the start of the “Olivia Chow for Mayor” campaign.
A street car can’t protect our sovereignty. Thats why we are buying them Olivia. But of course you and your like dont think that Canada should do anything on the International stage do you??? Go ride our bike and street car and keep your uninformed comments to yourself………..
more streetcars and buses does not reduce gridlock