Open Payment, Part II
Mr. Giambrone's Facebook posts and tweets today make it quite clear to me that this has become a debate about municipal governance:Presto was state of the art when it was first proposed seven years ago but is already obsolete. Adopting Presto because it already exists would just be throwing good money after bad. Mayoral candidates need to decide if they will stand up for Toronto or if they just want to impose the Province's will on the City.If we're going to have the debate about municipal governance and municipal autonomy then let us have it. But, let's be open about the fact that this has ceased to be about Presto vs Open Payment.
The Councillor also said:
The McGuinty government has signed a $250 million contract with Accenture for the Presto card and the public does not know what is in it. The TTC has to spend its money very carefully and cannot enter into expensive contracts without a very clear understanding of it.To this I respond, for the third time, will the agreement with the open payment firm be opened to public scrutiny to the public?
Labels: municipal sillyness, politics, ttc
posted by Andrae Griffith @ 8:19 p.m.
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