Most people would agree that a new GTA wide transportation plan is badly needed. Driving across the GTA at peak periods easily underlines this point. The job of creating a new transportation strategy has now fallen to former Burlington mayor Rob MacIsaac and the newly formed Greater Toronto Transportation Authority (GTTA).
One the GTTA’s first challenges will be to articulate a transportation vision for the GTA. Tactics seem to abound as dedicated surface routes and new subway transit lines, including an airport link, have all been recommended. What we seem not to have is a clear, easily understood vision of where want to go. A vision that the voter, federal, provincial and municipal levels of government can all buy into. The lack of an articulated transportation vision or end state is to my mind what really holds our GTA transit development back.
Once the vision is agreed upon the tactics and timelines will become obvious. A sell-able transportation vision is possible. One has only one has only to look to Madrid and Dublin to name a few and see their vision, progress and drive in action. Changing people’s minds about car travel will be a long and difficult process and needs to start now before we actually collide head-on in debilitating gridlock.
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Michael Fenn now has the job of bring forth a new transit vison and since writting this post Mayor Miller and other big city mayors ahav launch the National Transit Strategy." Mark
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