November 18, 2010 - 12:08 pm |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
If Vancouver cabs were sitting idle on Friday and Saturday nights for this, I could understand. But this isn't the reason for them being off the road.
This morning, representatives from all four Vancouver taxi companies are speaking to a motion forwarded by lone NPA Councillor Suzanne Anton for new taxi licenses.
These licenses would be specifically targeted to the peak periods of 3-5 in the morning on Saturday and Sunday mornings when hundreds of partyers exit the bars intent on getting home.
Now as I wrote last week, at the moment, City Council doesn’t seem to be inclined towards the option of adding new temporary licenses.
But CivicScene has just found out another reason why temporary licenses are completely unnecessary in spite of the rationale listed in Anton’s motion text.
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November 8, 2010 - 12:56 pm |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
This is the way the NPA's membership is being treated by the party with regards to choosing candidates.
For many months, November 20th was heralded as a rebirth for the NPA – the day that the party would collectively choose candidates for the next election.
But due to a lack of interest, the nomination day was only promoted as the first round of the process, with “a second set of nominations to be held in the spring of 2011.”
Eventually, what was supposed to be a day for hope turned into a very limited screening of what the party was about to offer to the public – two candidates for City Council, one candidate for Park Board, and one candidate for School Board.
And now we know that the NPA board has decided that appointments/acclamations, rather than democratic elections via the will of the membership, is the way to go.
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October 18, 2010 - 11:56 am |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
October 5, 2010 - 8:45 am |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
The proposed Hornby Bike Lane route has produced some surprising and thought provoking responses from local businesses when contrasted to a similar exercise within the Bloor West Village and its proposed bike lane in Toronto.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business is set to speak to City Council this morning armed with their just released survey results comprised of responses from 73 Hornby business owners regarding the impact of the proposed Hornby bike lane trial.
According to the CFIB data, “92 per cent of business owners fear a negative impact on their business, and of those providing a projection, the sales loss averages 23 per cent if the proposed bike lane project goes forward” (as you can see, how many of those 73 business owners actually offered a guess as to what their potential losses could be is ambiguous, making this figure hard to pin down in terms of accuracy or consensus).
Regardless, a recent report about the impact of a proposed bike lane that would eliminate 50 per cent of parking in the Bloor West Village in Toronto shows results that are very different than those offered by the CFIB.
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