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Trains Planes and Automobiles

Message from Martin Lennox JRA chair

This is the first of three emails this week which your JRA has prepared to help inform Junction residents of the discussions around transit in our area.

This is a critical time for transit in our neighbourhood and our great city. Our representatives will be making choices on Transit City, TTC bus service and electric trains in the Union-Pearson rail corridor over the next few weeks.

We feel it is very important that our elected representatives hear our voice on these important issues as they make critical transportation decisions that will affect our daily lives.

Five hundred people receive this email and we hope each of you will take just a few minutes this week to write, email and phone your government representatives to voice your opinion on the future of transit.

Transportation is our history; let’s help to shape its future.

First Discussion: Electrification of the Union-Pearson Rail Corridor

a. Metrolinx Electrification Study

Message from Karen Pitre, Electrification Study Project Director (January 19, 2011)

“Today, Metrolinx has released the findings of its comprehensive study which examines the electrification of the entire GO Transit rail system and the future Air Rail Link (ARL), as a future alternative to Tier 4 diesel trains. Metrolinx staff is recommending to the Metrolinx Board of Directors to move forward on the electrification of the GO Georgetown and Lakeshore corridors in phases, beginning with the ARL on the Georgetown corridor. The final Electrification Study report, as well as the accompanying Metrolinx staff report for the upcoming Metrolinx Board of Directors meeting ... and appendices are ... available online at www.gotransit.com/estudy.

Should you have any questions or comments about the report, please email karen.pitre@metrolinx.com.

Karen Pitre
Project Director
Electrification Study
Metrolinx
20 Bay Street, Suite 901
416-729-2186

Visit our website: http://www.gotransit.com/estudy"

b. Build it right, build it once. GO Electric NOW!

Message from Rick Ciccarelli of the Clean Train Coalition (January 23, 2011)

“On January 26th there is an important public rally for sustainable transportation. It is being held in front of the Central YMCA starting at 8:30 am. This is the location of the Metrolinx Board meeting, where they will be receiving the most recent study on electrification of the regional commuter rail network. See www.metrolinx.com for their information on the study.

Clean Train Coalition is a volunteer, non-partisan group representing communities along the rail corridor between Union and Pearson. We are in favour of increasing the availability of sustainable public transit, and have been advocating for the past two years to encourage Metrolinx and the Province to use clean electric trains for this system expansion. We strongly believe the Air Rail Link should be electric from the outset, and that the communities between Union Station and Pearson Airport should be better served with healthy and well-integrated electric transit.

We hope to see you at the Central YMCA, 20 Grosvenor, this coming Wednesday!”

c. Local news articles on the Metrolinx Electrification Study

Electrify Georgetown and Lakeshore GO line, says report [The Star]

Electrify GO Transit’s busiest corridors, Metrolinx report urges [Globe & Mail]

Metrolinx recommends electrifying GO trains [National Post]

Full electric GO Train system costly: Metrolinx [The Sun]

d. Last word from your JRA

Rail is the foundation of our community and it's going to be around for a long time, so expansion must be clean, fast and available to everyone.

The JRA supports Clean Train Coalition, and we feel the Union-Pearson rail corridor should be electrified now, before we expand service by hundreds of trains per day.

Metrolinx is recommending that the electrification of the corridor be a top priority, yet they are moving forward with the purchase of diesel trains for the Airport Rail Link.

It is our recommendation that we move forward with electrification now.

Please contact the politicians below and have your voice heard today.

e. Who can I contact to voice my opinion?

Hon. DALTON MCGUINTY
Premier, Province of Ontario
Rm 281, Legislative Building, Queens Park
Toronto ON M7A 1A1

Tel: (416) 325-1941 Fax: 416-325-3745
dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

Hon. KATHLEEN WYNNE
Minister of Transportation
Ferguson Block, 3rd Floor
77 Wellesley St W
Toronto ON M7A 1Z8

Tel: 416-327-9200
kwynne.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

LAURA ALBANESE, MPP, York South--Weston
Unit 102, 2301 Keele St
Toronto ON M6M 3Z9

Tel: (416) 243-7984 Fax: (416) 243-0327
lalbanese.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

TONY RUPRECHT, MPP, Davenport
1359 Davenport Road
Toronto ON M6H 2H5

Tel: (416) 535-3158 Fax: (416) 325-9961
truprecht.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

CHERI DINOVO, MPP, Parkdale-High Park
3136 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON M6P 2A1

Tel: (416) 325-0244 Fax : (416) 325-0305
dinovoc-qp@ndp.on.ca

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How often can you post to Craig’s and Kijiji? What other ad sites do you use to drive visitor traffic? Are Facebook Marketplace ad impressions available for the property? How will they be targeted?

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Its OUR subway Where do you want it?

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Light Rail Transit Supporters!

Thank you for your support of Transit City; I appreciate that you took the time to email your political representatives on this matter. I am committed to do what I can to save Transit City and ensure better access to transit for Torontonians across the city.

I would like to invite you to two upcoming events:

1) Date: Sunday, January 9th

Time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Location: Toronto City Hall (100 Queen Street West)

A public gathering for all Light Rail Transit Supporters. For more information, visit http://www.facebook.com/update_security_info.php?wizard=1#!/event.php?eid=161885717188424 and sign up to support Light Rail Transit at www.ttcriders.ca

2) Date: Thursday, January 13th

Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Location: Artscape Wychwood Barns, Barn#2 (601 Christie Street).

I will be hosting a community meeting with the Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) in support of Light Rail Transit across the city and the Eglinton LRT project.

Please find attached a very informative map created by TEA comparing the city wide LRT network to the proposed subway plan. Thank you once again for your continued support for keeping Light Rail Transit moving in Toronto.

Sincerely,

Joe Mihevc

David Pylyp The residents of Toronto, the tax payers and users of this transit system need to stand up and speak their minds for what our Transit system will look like in the future. Will we have a quaint open pedestrian court in downtown only fed by transit vehicles, outdoor cafes and a walking promenade ( Yonge Dundas Square) or will we continue to foster one was streets through residential neighbourhoods that frustrate drivers between speed bumps only to double back to main intersections.

Life was never meant to be waiting for an opening in the Left turn lane.

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Home Inspectors Who needs them?

Mike Holmes says;

http://www.nationalpost.com/homes/Mike+Holmes+sweet+homes/4075753/story.html

“Whatever you do, don’t pass your home on in its current condition — make it right,” he says. “Then sell it.”

So why should we have standards and a minimum code?

However, if you have yet to buy your home, by no means should you hire any old schmoe for a once-over. “Want to know how easy it is to become a foundation repair guy? It’s a verbal exam,” Mr. Holmes scoffs. “You have to have a minimum renovator’s permit, and you’re a foundation specialist. As for the home inspector,” Mr. Holmes goes so far as to say, “it’s a two-week course — you could have worked at McDonald’s.”

Mike Holmes has gone a step further and opened a business as home inspections;

Many of us are guilty of hiring a cheap inspector when we buy a house. This irritates Mr. Holmes tremendously, so much that he’s begun to colonize the inspection industry. He launched Mike Holmes Inspections in February 2009, as a pilot project in the Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge area. The mission: to make every single house right. (This should really rankle charlatans on the beat.) His company offers a range of property services — a basic package ($395) includes an examination of your home’s foundation, roof, electrical and plumbing. “The base inspection provides a thorough, fully documented report with photographs. It’s much better than industry standard,” Mr. Holmes says. The full monty — or in Mr. Holmes’s parlance: “the infrared thermographic scan” ($695) — detects thermal defects and air leakages in building envelopes, so you can finally stop wondering why your bedroom feels like the arctic tundra in winter and the Sahara in summer.

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I'm really excited about bring in 2011

Hello,

There is an incredible enthusiasm and renewed optimism this year! Year end numbers make us almost the same as 2009 and 2010! With a complete lack of home for sale and construction is in full gear for condos; I don’t see it changing soon. Prices will continue to rise as Buyers compete to buy what is listed.

Read for yourself Market Watch Update for January 06, 2010 Additional details for the complete market Watch are available here

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Stay well, stay warm, I’m really excited about 2011!