Yeah, lots of people have "Save Transit City" buttons. David Miller and Adam Giambrone were handing them out to everyone who would take them during the first great funding scare, last spring.
My own STC button was given to me at a Torontoist staff meeting by David Topping, who'd gotten a bag of them from Giambrone, who at the time was apparently keeping a huge box of them in the trunk of his car. (Actually, it turns out this is only half true. See below.)
Now that saving Transit City is fashionable again, I'm pretty stoked that I have not only that original button, but the entire Transit City line of apparal.
Aw yeah.
The other five buttons are offical TTC swag. Over the summer (and maybe before then), they were being handed out at public events by TTC representatives as a way of building public awareness of the plan.
I would never wear any of these in public. Advocacy and activism aren't my department.
But they're on prominent display in my apartment, as living artifacts of the light rail shitstorm.
Update:
David Topping tells me that he did not, in fact, get his supply of Save Transit City buttons from Adam Giambrone. In reality, he got them from another person, whom Adam Giambrone directed him to. Also, the buttons were in bags, rather than "a huge box." Oops. That's what I get for writing about half-remembered conversations from months ago.
Sorry for misleading you, internet. And apologies for misparaphrasing you, David.
"Advocacy and activism aren't my department."
Judge Rybak would beg to differ.
Posted by: Zach | February 05, 2011 at 03:15 PM