City council gives green light to $13M transit terminal
20Completely separate from electric buses, has the mayor basically given up being cordial since he isn't running? Since he got overruled on the statue? Wait your turn or just shut up. The adults are trying to have a conversation.
11- Danny Galea
City council gives green light to $13M transit terminal
15There is no question, electric buses have been an epic failure, and cost millions in taxpayer subsidies.
15- Dennis Woodman
City council gives green light to $13M transit terminal
19I am not comparing us to China, but they have a fleet of 700,000 electric buses. Paris has over 1,000. Toronto has 300+. Vancouver 281. Montreal has 41 + 871 hybrid buses. London, England has 1,951 electric buses. Kingston, Ontario has 7. Even Windsor, car country, has 34 hybrid buses. The list goes on and on. Why Calgary had such an epic fail, is a mystery. Poor management? And why the mayor would not know how many cities and countries have had wildly successful rolloust of electric buses is a mystery. Or maybe not. It takes research and knowledge of the benefits of electric power to understand.
10- Magiccat
OSMH interim CEO pleads for council to back plan for new build
11Respectfully, you know nothing of the viability of the site on West Street across from the rec centre. It would work if we had the fortitude and foresight. It meets every urban planning doctrine.
17- Downtown Core
Council to see new Official Plan, hear about new hospital Monday
22Councillor Smith has been the Council Liasion to the Hospital Community Engagement Committee for the past 3 years and has only attended 2 meetings. Many of her questions could have been answered.
5- Pat Hehn
OSMH interim CEO pleads for council to back plan for new build
19It is time for dinosaur Cipolla to retire & take councillor Smith with him. A downtown location will add years to a new build with all the brownfield remediation required. One would think theMURF would have taught them something.
8- retired optimist
City council gives green light to $13M transit terminal
16Electric buses failed in Regina. Does not mean they will fail in Orillia Mayor.
11- Flax Seed
City council gives green light to $13M transit terminal
13Stop all this talk about terminals. STOP sending every bus downtown. Have professionals design the routing with transfer points like real cities have. Stop catering to the shop owners and their friends on council.
14- Brad Mathews
Council to see new Official Plan, hear about new hospital Monday
3Councillor Smith. Obviously there are dated people who know others in places to track your attendance as they attempt undermine your future. Stay strong as jealousy never wins.
22- Trueblue
Barrie Road apartment plan on hold as developer seeks city relief
25Moe, you need to give it up. Your BS is too much for what’s needed here.Yours truly : former tenant of 95 Barrie Rd (Circa 2013), former LANDSCAPER for the monstrosity of “75 Barrie Rd” LIE). Too many Orillians know what you are about. All you have done is play the “geared to income” relief grants and look at what you’ve created; double and triple rents for less than the big infests I had to help TRY to alleviate back in 2013-2015. You pretend you’ll build for geared, receive the grants, to be gone and not provide what said grants are for. You’re a joke and you need to be gone. As a former tenant and landscaper of yours, please just go away and let people who aren’t lining pockets take over.
- Manderzz
City council gives green light to $13M transit terminal
12They have failed in many places and can cost up to 2.6 times more than diesel buses.
13- Dennis Woodman
City council gives green light to $13M transit terminal
13We are already having problems with snow removal. Imagine electric vehicles on some of our snow bound streets. Never mind the millions of dollars to purchase them.
10- dJ59
Citizen calls for change in Orillia amid 'growing decline in safety'
13So, Smith's solution is to ban encampments while providing nowhere for the homeless to go, and also passing the buck to the provincial and federal governments instead of taking any responsibility for the the issues within her "own" town. Why exactly did we pay for her to go to all those courses about addressing homelessness???
10- ElizabethMK
OSMH interim CEO pleads for council to back plan for new build
14A new hospital for the future needs to take into account ample space for staff parking. In order to attract staff, it needs to be convenient for those staff to park. Staff live across the region, in other cities, and the surrounding townships. Hospital shifts are typically 12 hours. For the vast majority of staff members, using public transit is not desirable, or even a practical option. This is one of the factors that makes a downtown location infeasible.
7- R. Baxter
OSMH interim CEO pleads for council to back plan for new build
16OSMH has limited, if any, affect on the financials of the downtown core. People aren't going to a hospital with plans for a dinner at Brewery Bay after. Ralph, people won't go to your store to make sure they have the right look for their surgical procedure. Can we please stop bringing this up? The downtown isn't going to magically revitalize with a downtown hospital.The current site is a patchwork of buildings, some over a hundred years old. It has been renovated countless times, but it is no longer a viable site. It was a viable site when there was no West Ridge, the population was significantly smaller and you had to use a horse and buggy to get to it. You want to revitalize downtown? Find a new use for the current building, like an old folks home or cheap housing.Council needs to stop trying to be big dog here & just release the lands. The quicker they do, the quicker building gets started & the quicker Orillia will have access to better health care.
5- Danny Galea
Citizen calls for change in Orillia amid 'growing decline in safety'
16Smith said something I agree with, that you seemed to have overlooked that deals with managing the homeless population:"I would like to see council immediately explore a bylaw prohibiting camping anywhere within the City of Orillia without an approved permit or authorization ... this would provide bylaw officers with clearer authority to address encampments before they become larger public safety concerns," said Smith.
5- CasualObserver
Residents weigh in on $2.25M plan to mitigate flooding in Orillia
4Just get the job done at the lowest cost and forget about local fish habitats…there are plenty of those in the 90% of Canada that is still wilderness.
16- WhoWhatWhy
Barrie Road apartment plan on hold as developer seeks city relief
19The taxpayer is not and should not be obligated to fund for-profit business under the guise of something else.
- terror adagio
OSMH interim CEO pleads for council to back plan for new build
15The Hospital Board has done its job and recommended a site. Period. Full stop. Now Council is jumping in and causing more delays and obstructions! Here we go again....MURF!!!!Why do we ALWAYS have to have things 2 steps from our front door? Oh and asking the OSMH board of directors for at least 10 studies proving the benefit of a hospital in west Orillia... ARE YOU SERIOUS?It really is time for some Councillors to retire!
4- Doug Cousens
City council gives green light to $13M transit terminal
15"Future" electric buses. They may become viable in the future.
4- Bernie Logan
