3020 - Metrolinx Update and Future Directions The Big Move: Transforming Transportation in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA)

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Event	3020 - Metrolinx Update and Future Directions The Big Move: Transforming Transportation in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA)
CPD Points	3
Date	March 29, 2010
Start Time	05:30 PM
End Time	09:00 PM
Location	Toronto Board of Trade 100 King Street West Toronto, ON M5X 1C1 (416) 366-6811 Room: Fourth Floor
Description
This CMC-Ontario –GTA Chapter Government Special Interest Group event is hosted by the Toronto Board of Trade Infrastructure Committee. Join the CMC-Ontario –GTA Chapter Government Special Interest Group (SIG) to share in the amazing vision of one of the key sources of public sector investment over the next 25 years! Many of you already know about the current Presto program to allow for seamless travel across the GTHA - from Hamilton to Lake Simcoe to the eastern boarders of Durham Region. The Big Move is the most ambitious long-term transportation plan on the books in North America; new transportation projects that amount to two billion dollars annually over the next 25 years. It is the largest public transit expansion in half a century. Metrolinx plans to build over 1,200 kilometers of rapid transit — more than triple what exists now — so that over 80 per cent of residents in the region will live within two kilometers of rapid transit. Average commute times will decrease, despite an expected 50 per cent increase in population. Toronto has had a leading regional transportation network in the past – and GTA will have one again!

Speaker

J. Robert S. Prichard, President and CEO, Metrolinx

Biography
Metrolinx is the regional transportation authority for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

He is also past President and Chief Executive Officer of Torstar Corporation and President Emeritus of the University of Toronto where he previously served as dean of law and as a professor specializing in law and economics. Mr. Prichard is a director of Bank of Montreal, Onex Corporation and George Weston Ltd. He also serves as Vice-Chair of Canada’s Science, Technology and Innovation Council, Chairman of the Visiting Committee of Harvard Law School, trustee of the Hospital for Sick Children and as a director of the Toronto Community Foundation.

Mr. Prichard studied honours economics at Swarthmore College, received his MBA from the University of Chicago and earned law degrees at the University of Toronto and Yale University. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Member of the Order of Ontario and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Additional Information
Time:
5:30 – 6:00 pm - Registration and Networking
6:00 - 8:00 pm - J. Robert S. Prichard’s Presentation and Q & A

Cost:

CMC-Canada Members: $25.00 plus GST - ** members must login to receive the member rate - Click here to login

Non-members: $35.00 plus GST

Price includes a light dinner.

Registration deadline is March 25, 2010.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations received in writing before March 22, 2010 will be refunded the full amount, minus a $10.00 handling fee. No refunds will be issued after March 22, 2010. Registrants may send a substitute attendee, with appropriate fee adjustment.

No credits are given for late notices or "no-shows".

In the unlikely case that the event has to be cancelled, registration fees will be fully refunded.

If you have food allergies or other dietary restrictions, please email dhoornstra@cmc-canada.ca at least two business days prior to the event.

Seat Price	$35.00
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