Toronto Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro says his comments about ActiveTO in early June were widely misinterpreted.
Toronto Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro saysShapiro spoke with reporters on Thursday, his first public appearance since writing an open letter to Toronto city councilors about the program that shut down busy Lake Shore Boulevard West most weekends over the past two years. Shapiro said he didn't want ActiveTO ended, just adjusted.
ActiveTO was conceived to give cyclists, joggers, and other pedestrians a traffic-free space to exercise during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. City council“I am writing to request you do not vote in favour of extending ActiveTO on Lake Shore Boulevard West,” Shapiro wrote on June 10, pointing to “unprecedented levels of construction and other diversions.”
That meant that the traffic caused by Blue Jays games and the closures related to ActiveTO didn't run afoul of each other until April of this year. Shapiro said in his open letter that he was writing after feedback from fans. “I believe that Tory has tried to serve two masters at the same time - Rogers and the public interest - which is what the is setup to prevent,” said Chaleff in a tweet on Tuesday. “I say a judge must now determine whether and what consequences Tory should face for this apparent conflict of interest.”
“When the Mayor does have any conflicts, he studiously has declared them and he did not have one in this case.”
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