Toronto mayoral candidate Karen Stintz has released details of her plan to pay for transit construction that doesn’t include hiking property taxes.

Stintz would dedicate $330 million of revenue from current traffic enforcement operations and $700 million of revenue from the Toronto Parking Authority to pay for new transit infrastructure.

Her plan also involves imposing a $3 levy on motorists using certain Green P garages in Toronto’s core, to raise $114 million annually.

Stintz reiterated her proposal to sell a majority stake in city-owned Toronto Hydro, generating an estimated $500 million. This scheme would require the province to agree to drop a 33-per-cent tax on the transaction.

The Stintz transit funding plan would raise more than $1.6 billion in dedicated transit funding over 15 years and establish a “Toronto Transportation Trust,” Stintz said in a news release issued Tuesday.

“My funding plan will ensure that we fully fund Toronto’s share of the Toronto relief line without raising property taxes. It will also generate additional funds for other congestion priorities, including filling potholes and fixing the east Gardiner (Expressway).”

Stintz, former chair of the Toronto Transit Commission, supports replacing the seven-stop light rail line in Scarborough with a three-station subway that does require property tax increases that will cost the average Toronto household at least $1,200 over 30 years.

Stintz advocates merging the city’s transportation and transit functions into one super-bureaucracy headed by a transportation czar. That new agency would have authority over the proposed transportation trust, the release said.

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