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TTC Commissioners Vote Against Ads in Subway Cars
The Toronto Public Space Committee got the inside story from City Councillors Olivia Chow, Joe Mihevc and Adam Giambrone today when they were informed that TTC Commissioners voted 4-3 against the permanent installation of video advertising screens in subway cars.
In May of this year, the Commissioners approved the permanent installation of video advertising screens on station platforms. According to TPSC, two key ingredients influenced yesterday's decision - "an eight month campaign" by TPSC and "continuing public protest against the proposal to put video ads in subway cars".
Howard Moscoe, City Councillor for Ward 15 Eglinton-Lawrence, also voted against the video ads at yesterday's TTC meeting at City Hall.
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(the video screen contents were to be delivered via a broadband wifi network)
Although I'm happy about the screens being killed, I was looking forward to being able to surf on the ttc...
If riders want wifi service, then we should request/demand it from the TTC. We pay for the ride, so we should be able to ask for nice things. Besides, the cost would most likely be offset by increased ridership. And it wouldn't be legitmising an increase in advertising.
We need to discover a new mentality of asking for what we want, instead of waiting for things to appear, for free, with ads on them.
Why is everyone against ads in the subway? I am bored to death having to look at strangers or the floor in the subway.
TTC rates are going higher and higher and obviously they were looking at this as a way to prevent it from rising any more.
is it possible to get one when your ad campaign is over for this sign ??????
Toronto City Councillor Joe Mihevc is demanding better funding for Supporting Community Partnership Initiative grants (SCPI,) today, September 12 at the Holy Trinity Church, saying that they have been a big help to Toronto's poor and homeless.
What he isn't saying is that his family is a direct beneficiary of these grants.
SCPI is a federally funded program through CMHC that is administered locally, in this case by the City of Toronto's Shelter HOusing and Support division (SHS).
A few years ago when Councillor Mihevc's wife had just graduated from social work school and was out of work, Mihevc pressured the city SHS's Trish Keachie to award a SCPI grant to East York East Toronto Resources, who created their RENT project www.housingworkers.ca for housing workers to be headed up by Rosalee Bender, Joe Mihevc's longtime commonlaw wife! Mihevc's wife gets a fulltime salary for what is about 2 day's work a month and used to be done in the spare time of one city employee!
In the meantime many social advocacy groups have had no response from Mihevc Chair of the city's Community Services Committee on why the city purposely creates so many delays for those trying to get benefits from Ontario Works.
Mihevc also had som affordable housing in his own ward bulldozed for parking saying that the property was owned by the Parking Authority and tha tlocal businesses needed more parking far more that the tenants needed the housing!
Councillor Mihevc is only using the issue of homelessness and poverty to benefit himself financially and his ward 21 reelection campaign.