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Toronto Island Airport Four federal authorities were involved in the process and the project to construct the 400-foot bridge to the island airport was heard through an unprecedented level of public consultation rivaling the City of Toronto's public consultation process on Waterfront Revitalization in both scope and thoroughness. The island airport debate is a prime example of how the City of Toronto and its citizens are continuously being held hostage by a small, but organized contingent of NDP Councillors. This weakness in Toronto's municipal government process yields one message: Torontonians are afraid to let their city succeed and they lack the courage to move beyond their mediocre rank in the world of prosperous and liveable cities. www.canadafreepress.com /airport/backg3.htm   (1183 words)

Toronto Islands | Toronto Islands - Centre Island, Toronto Island Airport, Toronto Ferry and more... The Toronto Island Canoe Club is a non-profit organization run by a volunteer Board devoted to the promotion of healthy, active living for all ages. The Toronto Islands were not always islands but actually a series of continuously moving sand-bars, or littoral drift deposits, originating from the Scarborough Bluffs and carried westward by Lake Ontario currents. Toronto City Centre Airport is located on 80.9 hectares (200 acres) at the western end of Toronto Islands, "on the city's front doorstep." The Island Airport (as it is also known as) is now linked across the Western Gap by ferry services. www.torontoharbour.com /toronto-islands   (380 words)

Home Page Toronto's extensive plans for a "Clean Green Waterfront" are threatened by the federally run Toronto Port Authority, which has developed a destructive scheme to turn the small airport on Toronto Island into a busy regional hub airport. Port Authority's airport expansion proposal essentially involves transferring the large amount of pollution associated with moving people to and from Toronto and several other destinations from the relatively sparsely developed area around Pearson International to the area around the Island Airport, which is the densest concentration of workers and residents in Canada. The Island Airport has been a commercial failure and a major drain on the public purse since it was first opened in the 1930s. www.communityair.org /home.htm   (1143 words)

Toronto Island airport expansion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Christopher Hume (architecture critic, Toronto Star) "The choice is simple: Either we revitalize the waterfront or we expand the Toronto Islands aiport. Toronto's waterfront will be "the most exciting people place in North America." It will "bring back thousands of acres of wetlands, green corridors, parks, forest and wildlife" and incluce "quiet restraints for classical music". He said the idea of a waterfront airport is rooted in a 40-year-old mindset, one held over from a time when the waterfront was seen as a place for industrial activity. webhome.idirect.com /~jleeson/island_airport.htm   (647 words)

Toronto Island Airport Zoning Regulations "airport" means the Toronto Island Airport, at Toronto Island, in the City of Toronto, in the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, in the Province of Ontario; (aéroport) PART II The approach surfaces, shown on Toronto Island Airport Zoning Plan No. 20-004-83-113, Sheets 1 to 5, dated October 26, 1984, are surfaces abutting each end of the strip associated with the runway designated 08-26 and are described as follows: PART IV The strip associated with runway 08-26 as shown on Toronto Island Airport Zoning Plan No. 20-004-83-113, Sheet 3, dated October 26, 1984, is 150 m in width, 75 m being on each side of the centre line of the runway and 1 280 m in length. laws.justice.gc.ca /en/A-2/SOR-85-515/text.html   (1079 words)

City of Toronto: Toronto Island Park High lake levels continually damaged island properties and, on January 1, 1956, the City of Toronto transferred responsibility for the Toronto Islands to The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto (Metro) to be developed as a regional park. After the islands were transferred from the federal government to the City of Toronto in 1867, Plan D-141 divided the land into lots and allowed cottages, amusement areas and resort hotels to be built. The amusement park was demolished and in 1937 Toronto Island Airport was constructed. www.toronto.ca /parks/island/index.htm   (1318 words)

Toronto City Centre Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia At opening it was intended to be Toronto's principle airport; a secondary airport was built in Malton (now part of Mississauga) for use in case of inclement weather. The airport is served by the ferry "TCCA1" launched in October 2006. There was a plan to link the island to the mainland by a new bridge, and in 2002 Toronto City Council, while Mel Lastman was Mayor of Toronto, amended the tripartite agreement to permit a fixed link and approved the construction of a lift bridge. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toronto_Island_Airport   (1377 words)

TORONTO ISLAND AIRPORT | Toronto City Centre Airport - Toronto Tourism The Toronto Island Airport is minutes away from first-class hotels, the Hummingbird Centre, Roy Thomson Hall, SkyDome, Air Canada Centre the CN Tower, Hockey Hall of Fame, and Harbourfront. The Toronto Island Airport Ferry leaves regularly from the dock at the foot of Bathurst Street for the short trip to the airport terminals. Toronto Island Airport history - As discussions about the commercial importance of air transportation and prospects for a trans-Canada air route begin to gather momentum, there is mounting pressure on politicians to ensure that Toronto is not left off the air map. www.torontoharbour.com /toronto-airport/toronto-island-airport.php   (341 words)

The Epoch Times | Toronto Island Airline to Press on, Shuns Protests The airport is run by the Toronto Port Authority, which is under investigation by the federal government over allegations it owes millions of dollars in property taxes. The airport is in the parliamentary constituency of Olivia Chow, a federal legislator from the left-leaning opposition New Democratic Party who wants to bar Porter from flying. The Toronto Port Authority is promising a new updated ferry, which Deluce said would allay his earlier concerns about the need for better access to the airport. www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-6-28/43279.html   (450 words)

Toronto Plus.ca - Airport Survival Guide - Toronto Fact Sheet Contemporary Toronto is the epitome of a modern metropolis - progressive, vibrant, and host to a dizzying array of cultures and experiences. Toronto plays hard, and the city is host to teams in the four major North American sports. Toronto is also home to a diverse range of ethnic communities, and you may hear Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, and many other languages spoken. www.torontoplus.ca /feature/airport/8102/factsheet.jsp   (1506 words)

Airport May Change Green Space to Obscene Place-Toronto Island Airport The Toronto Port Authority is proposing a lift bridge, a large new terminal with 19 gates, hangars, a multi-storey parking garage at the foot of Bathurst, a fuel tank farm on Hanlan's Point and airplanes constantly coughing out toxic gases (ethylene, propene, acetylene, formaldehyde, ethylbenzene, methane... What staggers me about the airport proponents is the sheer amount of spin they deploy to cover up the stupidity and greed of their backroom deal — and how easily and blandly that spin gets reported. For the Island airport, that means from High Park to the Beach and north to Eglinton. archives.californiaaviation.org /airport/msg27967.html   (1087 words)

CTV Toronto - New airline renews T.O. Island airport dispute - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television Toronto Mayor David Miller has expressed concerns with the new planes landing at the Island Airport. The plans point to an increase in passenger and aircraft traffic for the island airport, which was the source of opposition to Regco's plans in 2003. CTV Toronto: Austin Delaney with reaction to the airport construction toronto.ctv.ca /servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20060202/island_airport_060202/20060202   (681 words)

Welcome to Toronto! Toronto City Guide & Information Toronto is a clean, safe, cosmopolitan city with a wonderful network of parks, recreational, and cultural facilities. Toronto is the home of four professional sports teams and the third largest English-speaking theatre district in the world, behind New York and London. Toronto introduces the 647 area code in March 2001 and will require local 10-digit dialing for all telephone calls within the Toronto area. www.math.toronto.edu /toronto   (234 words)

Toronto Island Airport expansion Under the settlement with the Toronto Port Authority, which was suing the city for $1 billion, the city will pay out $48.6 million. The Deluce goal for the airport is an annual passenger volume of 900,000 within three years. The bridge is long last physical proof that Toronto Island and environs do not belong to NDP activists, but to all of the people of the City of Toronto. www.canadafreepress.com /2003/ed063003.htm   (583 words)

Ker-splash: Short runway at Toronto island airport « Stayin’ awake - Michael Shapcott’s blog It has refused to listen to the people of Toronto, it continues to operate the money-losing and environmentally-dangerous downtown airport and there are questionable financial practices that have been raised by Community Air and others. If that’s achieved, then it’s fair to say the island airport will be solidly entrenched, with the prospect of commercial jets pretty well a certainty, regardless of the mouthed assurances to the contrary. What never gets talked about in all the media articles, and in all the hype coming from the city is- the people who “really” run Toronto, the financiers, the developers, the elected and unelected political movers and shakers, value their time, and for that reason they value the Island Airport. mshapcott.wordpress.com /2006/08/31/ker-splash-short-runway-at-toronto-island-airport   (3232 words)

Pictures from Toronto Trip Niagara Falls was visible on the left, and Toronto to the right as we turned out over the lake. The main observation level puts you about at traffic pattern altitude for the island airport, and being typical pilots we picked out Downsview and Pearson airports, then went around the other side and watched the landings at the Island for a while. We staggered back to the airport (I was getting tired enough to consider calling a cab, but we didn't), took the ferry back, and got ready to fly home. xcski.com /~ptomblin/cytz   (1315 words)

Other uses for Toronto’s island airport… « Stayin’ awake - Michael Shapcott’s blog Toronto’s waterfront is too valuable to be wasted on a money-losing airport. Community Air is raising important objections to the island airport, and to the activities of the Toronto Port Authority. Look at it from another perspective: the Toronto Islands will probably still exist in a century, or two, or ten, but the kids in Malton only get fifteen years, give or take, of childhood. mshapcott.wordpress.com /2006/09/11/other-uses-for-torontos-island-airport   (798 words)

Air Canada Jazz resuming service at Toronto's Island airport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Air Canada's flights to Montreal from the Island ended four years ago, and Ottawa service ceased this spring as Porter Airlines, a regional startup headed by entrepreneur Robert Deluce, took over the facility Jazz had been using at the airport. The Island airport, adjacent to the city's biggest waterfront green space and overlooked by its battery of lakeside condominiums, has long been a civic political issue, with its operations deplored by local resident groups. Mayor David Miller was elected in 2003 on a central promise to block a proposed $22-million bridge to replace the airport's ferry service, and the city has been at odds with the federally appointed port authority. www.canada.com /vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=388e9f41-29fd-40bc-b2f1-1fa9a779f476&k=67347   (315 words)

Toronto Island airport - connect the dots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The names in the top row are of those identified through public presentations at City Hall or through published reports as supporting the vehicle bridge for the island airport expansion. Several of the American airports where some of those passengers are to come from have never heard of Deluce or his REGCO company. Your statement, "Indeed, airport boosters predict an economic windfall", is hardly an argument worth the ink. webhome.idirect.com /~jleeson/island_airport_dots.htm   (978 words)

Andrew Spicer's Weblog - The Toronto Island Airport Follies After David Miller won the mayoralty of Toronto running on a campaign promise to stop the bridge and airport expansion, prime-minister-in-waiting Paul Martin told him and the press that he would follow the mayor's lead on the issue (link PDF). At the time, I wrote that while the bridge itself was not the most important issue facing Toronto, it was symptomatic of many federal Liberal failings. Their desire to massively expand the island airport is derived from a wish to create a profit source that can keep them in "business", and offers no benefit to Toronto. www.andrewspicer.com /article545.html   (594 words)

--Toronto Port Authority-- November 2, 2006—Statement by Chair of the Board of The Toronto Port Authority, Michele McCarthy. Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Toronto Port Authority will be held on Novenber 15, 2006. On the doorstep of a third of the Canadian market -learn about the Port of Toronto ... www.torontoport.com   (148 words)

Andrew Spicer's Weblog - The Latest Toronto Island Airport Expansion Scheme However, Air Canada says that construction of the ferry will improve airport access to the point where it would be economical for them to reinstate flights cancelled due to lack of demand. In my view, the appeal of flying out of the island airport on a slower, smaller plane is overrated. However, when it became clear that the TPA's last airport scheme was jeopardized by David Miller's imminent victory, they attempted to protect their plans by signing contracts related to the bridge construction. www.andrewspicer.com /article701.html   (652 words)

Toronto Island Airport Zoning Regulations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The approach surfaces, shown on Toronto Island Airport Zoning Plan No. 20-004-83-113, Sheets 1 to 5 dated October 26, 1984, are surfaces abutting each end of the strip associated with the runway designated 08-26 and are described as follows: Thence southerly along the eastern limit of Approach Surface 26 on an azimuth of 160º11'36" a distance of 2 528.1 m to the south-eastern corner of the said approach surface the UTM co-ordinates of which are N 4,833,433.08 and E 637,856.19; Thence westerly along the southern limit of the southern transitional surface on an azimuth of 249º37'13" to the intersection of the southern limit of the southern transitional surface with the southern limit of Approach Surface 08, the said point of intersection having UTM co-ordinates of N 4,829,608.86 and E 625,411.28; tc.gc.ca /acts-regulations/GENERAL/A/aa/regulations/170/aa171/aa171.htm   (1063 words)

My Opinion on the Toronto Island Airport If Toronto were inside a bubble, the money that everyone had would simply move around. Specifically, the maximum required landing field length of the Bombardier Q400 is 4200 feet, while the Island airport runway is only 4000 feet long. The Air Canada pilot who spoke to me has landed similar planes at the Island Airport, and indicated that there were no safety concerns with landing field length. www.glenn4mayor.com /toronto_island_airport.html   (422 words)

Jazz delays plans to fly out of Toronto Island airport The regional airline announced the delay in its plans Tuesday, blaming what it calls the "intransigence" of the Toronto Port Authority for refusing to approve a lease that would allow the carrier to use the island facilities. When the carrier announced it was resuming service at the island airport, Low double-checked with Air Canada and then booked return flights until the end of November. Air Canada's flights to Montreal from the island airport ended four years ago, and Ottawa service stopped this spring when a regional startup carrier, Porter Airlines, took over the facility previously used by Jazz. www.cbc.ca /canada/toronto/story/2006/08/09/jazz-cancel.html   (1248 words)

[No title] Once the airport facility is dismantled, the airport island itself would be physically reconfigured. A substantial park is proposed for the east and west coasts of the island. The aging Island community would arguably benefit from a limited amount of coop rental accomodation to bring in some younger families; hence the proposed Flying Toad coop that was killed by the Harrisites. www.readingt.readingcities.com /index.php/toronto/comments/774   (1001 words)

Air Canada Jazz to fly from Toronto Island airport again Jazz plans 10 round-trip flights between the island airport and Ottawa on weekdays, and seven-round trips flights to Montreal, along with weekend service. Jazz stopped flying from the island in the spring after an Ontario Superior Court judge ruled that the airline must cancel its downtown flight plans and land elsewhere. The island airport is a point of controversy in Toronto. www.cbc.ca /money/story/2006/07/06/jazz-island.html   (1102 words)

Toronto News.Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Toronto News.Net is part of an international network of news sites, dedicated to the major regions, countries and cities of the world. This particular portal features all the latest breaking Toronto news, collating headlines and stories from a variety of sources, including global TV networks, major newspapers, news wires, and our own dedicated journalists. Links to Toronto sports sites, and a regional map are also features of our site, and we regularly provide polls of general interest. feeds.torontonews.net /?rid=5211160&cat=03cb86c5037f9622&f=1   (888 words)

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