If elected mayor of Toronto, Karen Stintz says she’ll establish a new agency that would combine the city’s transportation-related departments and agencies under one roof.

The agency would consolidate the Toronto Transit Commission, Toronto Transportation Services, Toronto Parking Enforcement and the Taxi and Licensing and Standards unit.

Stintz, a former TTC chair, said the new agency, to be called Transportation for Toronto, will be accountable to city council through a board of directors chaired by the mayor and comprising members knowledgeable of transportation systems. A transportation “czar” will be in charge of the whole enterprise.

“Responsibilities and accountabilities are spread across the city…that’s a problem,” Stintz said Friday morning, using the traffic-choked eastbound lanes of the Gardiner Expressway as her backdrop.

“There is a solution and it’s one transportation plan for Toronto. One system with all the pieces moving together at the same time … one system getting us where we want to go.”

The new agency would integrate management and investment in transportation services and infrastructure, including transit, roads, bridges, cycling and pedestrian ways, spearhead long-term transportation and funding strategies, and liaise with Metrolinx and other municipal transportation agencies.

Stintz said it would be modeled on Transport for London, an agency created in London, England, that has been very successful in tackling congestion.

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