Media Releases

GTA transportation proposals

June 23, 2016

The fol­low­ing is a list of Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to experts who can com­ment on a vari­ety of issues relat­ed to the GTA trans­porta­tion pro­pos­als.

Steven Far­ber, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Human Geog­ra­phy (U of T Scar­bor­ough)
Exper­tise: New pub­lic trans­porta­tion pro­pos­als and reliev­ing con­ges­tion
Tel: (416) 402‑1900
Email: steven.farber@utoronto.ca

Mat­ti Siemi­aty­c­ki, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor in Geog­ra­phy & Plan­ning
Exper­tise: Announce­ments this week on tran­sit and trans­porta­tion, Will they make a dif­fer­ence, How will city pay for it?
Tel: (416) 946‑5145
Email: siemiatycki@geog.utoronto.ca

Andre Soren­son, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Urban Geog­ra­phy (U of T Scar­bor­ough)
Exper­tise: How will new east end sta­tions impact Scar­bor­ough com­muters?
Tel: (416) 287‑5607
Email: Sorenson@utsc.utoronto.ca

Jonathan Hall, Pro­fes­sor of Eco­nom­ics
Exper­tise: Advan­tages of Toll Lanes on High­ways
Tel: (416) 978‑5110
Email: jonathan.hall@utoronto.ca

Gabriel Eidel­man, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor, School of Pub­lic Pol­i­cy and Gov­er­nance
Exper­tise: Munic­i­pal pol­i­tics, Tory’s Smart­Track pro­pos­als, Traf­fic recon­fig­u­ra­tion
Tel: (416) 938‑9559
Email: g.eidelman@utoronto.ca, csus.director@utoronto.ca