We’re a Non-Profit Grassroots group designed to engineer a greener transit system in Toronto, including the TTC, with many projects on the go. We're looking for people who want to become involved (see events below), and other transit systems worldwide at the side. Our Coalition aimed to raise the awareness of transit riders to change the system, is called the TTC Environmental Citizen’s Group. We want to change the policies which primarily can only be done through the people who vote!
Electric Cars and others forms of clean air fuel technology have been around since the beginning, however we don’t have the Policies in place in Canada for “Real Changes” to be made in transit. Meanwhile thousands of people continue to die every year due to air pollution and the government has those statistics! Imagine the ZENN car driven through roads in Canada, no noise and zero emissions powered by solar and wind power…..a lot less stress and a 50% cut in accidents!
1% of the people in Canada create and design the policies we live by, 11% of the people educate others and try to change the policies, the other 88%.... are to busy working to live and pretty much believe whatever is advertised to them through the media. According to urban planners the world’s population has tripled since 1936, and in 2030 will become 50 billion people, with 75% still living in cities. The water is difficult enough to purify in Toronto with the sludge water going to the country on farmlands. (Movie: Crapshoot, National Film Board of Canada).
We are players of the words written by policies that we continue to let politics govern - even though - it’s not in favor of the environment and future generations of life
With TTC buses usually kept forever until they die, it doesn’t matter how good the type of Biodiesel is - tail emissions are smog crap that idle consistently; plus our stations are hardly anything to look at with a management and provincial government that doesn’t care about revitalization or the health of public safety. Look at any washroom, and then look at the cameras and the constables Liberals have the money for; why are they focusing on violence instead of enriching the system for people? The media, and our society breed on violence, why do the politicians we vote for play into this?
The Coalition is looking for community groups that will draw stencil art on subway tiles if the TTC concurs. The TTC received 1.25 million from the budget to paint subway stations. 75 cents of every dollar from the public goes towards the operating costs and salaries, more than other other city in the entire world!
Why can’t the TTC Commissioners and Top Management throw 2% or 10%
into TTC projects if they have so much money for charities and themselves?
The TTC fought with 1.5 million dollars of taxpayers money against calling out all streets. As pertaining to David Lepofsky's request with the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and they used every excuse they could with tooth and nails. When I ask Adam Giambrone about why they fought using so much money he quoted he wasn't a lawyer but thinks the call out screens are a great idea. David Lepofsky quoted it's probably mismanagement in the top levels of the TTC.
Did they have the right to use 1.5 million dollars of taxpayers money?
WHY? Is it because the people are so numb and keep voting for governments that don’t do anything?
Global News quoted in Jan.2008 that later next year we should be able to purchase cars that run off air, London UK has buses that run off Hydrogen each year, Oakville, ON has 3 at no cost to them, the Liberals aren’t interested in green technology except hybrids only. The technology will change quicker only when people consistently demand change, not what the industry keeps marketing as the newest car of the year!
Writing 10 letters to Constituents have 10 times more impact than any petition, because they are listened to! People need to step up and raise an awareness on issues politicians do on a daily basis, you are the voice of your country, not just them. Get involved if you want your children and grandchildren to be able to breathe air and drink water.
Thousands of groups exist throughout America to change the car dominance culture of our society, however the system NEEDS the taxes from gasoline sales for profits. Ever ask where the interest goes to pay down the debt from all the countries? It goes to private banks and that interest goes to the banking cartels owned by the 13 richest families in the world. Only 2% of the money flowing in Canada is Used and since Canada joined the G7 in 1974 – 98% of the money is from the private banks we pay interest on to use the money. We could use 50% of the money from the Bank of Canada, but mayors, MP’s, all Parties and the Prime Minister are told we can’t touch it, and their fearful of doing so.
Taxes continue to go up, fare’s for the TTC continue to go up and the infrastructure built from the $$$$ from the Bank of Canada continues to falter and gets worse each month yet they continue crying out for more money. We are feeding the tails of the dragons that continue to mould and shape our societies as they see fit, but who are you and who were you created by? We are here to create the future which is NOW, we are here to create the dreams we have and see the possibilities take shape, shape your creations and your dreams to enrich a greater planet for our reality!
Each and every single one of us has a voice and we should use it. Each City Councillor represents 55,000 people in Toronto since the Amalgamation when David Miller took office, use City Hall as your Boardroom, and make your voice heard in deputations; for more information about making a deputation: http://www.toronto.ca/city_council/deputation.htm
Mike Harris who the majority of Transit Advocates and Environmentalists blame for "why" things aren't possible, now works for the Fraser Institute a right-wing think tank, and Magna International, so he's in the automobile and policy industry, and his pension is probably more than what David Miller makes per year, so how does that look to you? In a perfect world and fair society Mike Harris would be in jail, we would just ship all the bills for the TTC to Steven Harper, hold him accountable (considering bureacracy is split up into a million different pieces, so that no one is ever held responsible) and let the system fuss over the issues. Meanwhile Toronto would become the biggest and most valued transit system of the world, have more money (but they don't want people having money??, tourism would increase & add 100 times in value to our city with expansions outward.
City Council and TTC Commission meets once a month open to the public. The phone number for Access Toronto is 416-338-0338: to reach any of the 22 MPs in Toronto and 44 Councillors at City Hall. Think of what it would be like if everybody drived ZENN cars, and other clean fuel vehicles and people would be much more socially conscious of what the world will be like in another 500 years, because we are the sustainers of life!
With the backlog of $300 million dollars to repair it’s aging roads and sinkholes all the new TTC buses won’t even last ½ as long as they should, so shouldn’t the Roads and Transportation department of the City of Toronto pay up a large portion of the TTC costs? And how does the Toronto Board of Trade fit into the policy making decisions regarding this? (something to consider)…..Eye Weekly Magazine Dale Duncan, Feb 07th, 2008.
http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/ciclovia
Every Sunday and holiday every week the City of Bogota, Colombia closes down over 70 miles of roadways to cars and let people bike, walk, talk, etc. The best thing about Ciclovia is the participation within the city.
Congestion in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Greater Vancouver is estimated to add $300 million to the cost of goods movement every year. The cost of poor air quality in the Province of Ontario is estimated at $600 million annually in health care costs. This is equal to an estimated $1.875 billion in annual health care costs for Canada.
http://www.cutaactu.ca/content.asp?ID=134
While people by the thousand continue to die of air pollution it’s not right for the people in the government whom we pay to research more studies and review more reports and waste years and decades of idle talk when things must be done now! We are the future, what world do you want to live in? If you’ve ever experienced a close death from air pollution you’d stay a fly on the wall or wake-up and see things in ways that exist but aren’t because our ignorance fails to see past the illusions.
Events:
BIG EVENT that will rock the City & the TTC at the End of July: For people who have solutions for the TTC and complaints about vital issues and never get responses, location undecided at this time but it will be open to the media. Participating are many of the Transit Advocate Groups in Toronto, with David Fisher, Roger Brook, etc.
Fall 2008 we’ll have facilitators teaching drivers in Toronto how to use vegetable oil in cars at the University of Toronto.
Coming in 2009, we’ll have a Worldwide Transit Documentary that’s never been made anywhere in the world and will have a very strong impact in Canada.
We will have monthly meets again starting in March 2008 at the OISU, and regularly at Metro Hall.
Daily Tours of Queen's Park:
416-325-7500, tours open to the public 1 & 4pm weekdays. Media work there full-time, and at City Hall.
Next TTC Commission Meeting: February 27th 1pm-6pm, Meeting Room 2, 2nd Floor.
Links:
Our society took decades before realizing the effects of tobacco smoke, now government employees help people quit. When we do have clean fuel technology there will be a wealth of new jobs and new technologies, but the illusion of it all is that we’re not that educated and don’t know it all, there’s a whole world of new things waiting for us to leap into the future!
Green Transit for a Better Future:
http://www.transitorienteddevelopment.org/
Remarkable Metro Stations Worldwide:
http://mic-ro.com/metro//metroart.html#rating
METRO NEWS/METROLINX 01/24/08
Madrid built 150 Kilometres of subway between 95 and 07 for about $90 million per kilometre. The Shepperd subway by comparison, is about 6 kilometres long, took 8 years to build and cost $200 million per kilometre. The difference in costs between Madrid and Toronto is only 10-20%.
http://www.metrolinx.com/
Natural Resources Canada reports that Canadian drivers idle their vehicles an average of five to ten minutes a day. If every driver of a light duty vehicle avoided idling by 5 minutes a day, collectively we would save 680 million litres of fuel, over 1.6 million tonnes of GHG emissions, and $646 million in fuel costs annually. There are reports TTC buses idle all night long in garages in the winter! http://www.ecoactionteams.ca/pub/index.php
Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, ZENN Motor Company is dedicated to being the global leader in producing zero emission transportation solutions for markets around the world. Our current ZENN car is the perfect vehicle for urban commuters, fleets (such as resorts, gated communities, airports, college and business campuses, municipalities, parks and more), the environmentally conscious driver, and consumers who just want to save money. The ZENN is sold through a growing network of retailers across the United States. Air pollution caused by traffic is costing Canadians their health and our health care system billions of dollars.http://www.zenncars.com/
The ZENN Car on the Rick Mercer Report:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M88k6Ipp3c
TODAY IN FREE ENERGY PODCASTS:
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podcasts/6041
China's experimental nuclear fusion device goes into testing; Rare Earth magnets ..... Ram implosion wing and electrogravitic implosion propulsion system; ...
CARS THAT RUN OFF AIR: (from Global TV in Jan/2008) For Sale in 2009, Cdn. Price $7,300.00 http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2000/10/29/story812873138.asp
The automakers know that they can still sell automobile dependency in smaller packages. They can still make money putting hybrids on the roads. What they really fear is not emission regulations or fuel-efficiency standards, but mass transit, high-speed rail, human-scale development, and anything else that cuts against the carefully cultivated grain of private automobile dependency.
- Dan Korn http://groovygreen.com/groove/?p=2149
Mayor Miller ignores good advice regarding new Toronto taxes, Deputation by Sydney White!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=888TNRfNnoU
Author and Speaker Derrick Jenson says Gas Corporations are looking forward to the icebergs melting as it will be easier to get gas. and we choose to continue paying enourmous prices for gas. http://www.derrickjenson.org
TORONTO DEBATING SOCIETY:
Every 2nd & 4th Tuesday of the Month at 7:30pm
Swansea Town Hall (75 Lavinia)
http://www.debating.ca/
Canadian Action Party our Democracy, the real story about our money around the world and in Canada.
http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/democracy.html
Information everyone sends to Transport Canada is stored in Personal Information Bank # DOT PPU-079. Personal information that you provide is protected under the provisions of the Privacy Act. The Act provides you with a right of access to your information.
Monitors of the Centre for Sustainable Transportation for Canada
http://cst.uwinnipeg.ca/monitor.html
Oakvillegreen Conservation Association Newsletter
Issue 10 January 2008
In Scotland, citizens are getting rebates on bus fares when they turn in left over cooking oil which is then refined into diesel to fuel the buses. In Thailand, many police forces ask hotels, restaurants and shrines to donate their used cooking oil and in Bangkok, they are able to produce 150 liters each day for their patrol vehicles. (From page 5).
http://oakvillegreen.org/images/stories/newsletters/newsletter_january_2008_issue_10.pdf
The Executive Summary from the report Green Transit:
(Environmental Innovations Benefiting all Canadians)
http://www.cutaactu.ca/sites/cutaactu.ca/files/GreenTransit.pdf
TTC Policy Advisors are the Toronto Rocket Riders - Started by Councillor Gord Perks and Ed Drass – Meet every first Tuesday of the month at Metro Hall 6:30-9pm, 3rd floor, usually Room 304 or 307. Spokesperson is Roger Brook: green22@sympatico.ca
Health Effects of Air Pollution
Air pollution exacerbates the condition of people with respiratory and ... effects of air pollution by introducing cleaner vehicles and fuels in Canada. ...
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/air/out-ext/effe/health_effects-effets_sante_e.html
Emissions from ocean-going ships are responsible for about 60,000 deaths a year from heart and lung-related cancers, according to research published on Wednesday that calls for tougher fuel standards. Reuters, 7 November 2007. http://www.stcwa.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1989&Itemid=134
Case Study: Oaklands Zero Emission Bus
http://www.popsci.com/environment/gallery/2008-02/how-americas-greenest-cities-got-green
Hydrogen Hyper-Jet New York to London in 2 Hours – Emission Free.
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2008-01/green-skies-mach-5
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