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TTC transit chief Gary Webster may not be only one to lose job. ⇒

   21 February 2012, mid-morning

There are lots of councillors on our city council that need to go, but at the top of that list should be: Denzil Minnan-Wong, Cesar Palacio, Norm Kelly, Frank Di Giorgio and Vincent Crisanti. It will be a big loss to the city if we lose Webster. He’s been working at the TTC for 35 years, and is well regarded in the industry. (That is to say that you should be calling up Rob Ford and complaining about all of this.)

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  1. I need to understand what Mr. Webster has done for our transit that is so great over the past 35 years.

    by Radmila on February 21 2012, 12:32 pm   #

  2. Kept it going while it’s been defunded for the last 20 years? This is from last August:

    More than just fighting for good projects, under Webster the TTC has sustained the highest farebox recovery ratio for an urban public transit operator in the western world. This is a technical way of saying an often-mentioned fact that the TTC requires the smallest share of government subsidies to balance its books than any comparable transit agency less than a fifteen-hour flight from Pearson.

    — Keeping top transit chiefs in tough times

    Also from Spacing, from last year:

    TTC chief general manager Gary Webster on Friday revealed that the combination of ridership growth and cost containment will yield a $60 million surplus for the same period [PDF]. The windfall, presumably, means the TTC will be asked to make do with a smaller subsidy from the city — $370 million compared to the $430 million that had been budgeted for 2010.

    — Who really stopped the gravy train

    by Ramanan on February 21 2012, 1:37 pm   #

  3. And he was fired without just cause after working at the city for 37 years. Keep it classy, Ford.

    by Ramanan on February 21 2012, 5:23 pm   #

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