TTC
• TTC vows action on to-do list [ Toronto Star ]
• Councillors endorse transit museum [ Toronto Star ]
• Put TTC back on track [ Toronto Star ]
• Scathing TTC service report fails to derail museum plan [ Globe & Mail ]
• TTC told how to improve customer service 78 different ways [ National Post ]
Mayoral Race
• Rob Ford leads in mayor’s race, poll shows [ Toronto Star ]
• Rob Ford and the kick-in-the-pants brigade [ Globe & Mail ]
• Last place. That’s got to sting [ Globe & Mail ]
• Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Toronto’s mayoral race isn’t over yet [ National Post ]
• Endorsements ‘kiss-of-death’ for Smitherman [ Toronto Sun ]
• Ford calls on Vaughan to enter mayoral race [ Toronto Sun ]
G20 Aftermath
• G20 charges in court [ Toronto Star ]
• Assault police charges dropped against woman [ Toronto Star ]
• G20 charges dropped at mass hearing [ Toronto Star ]
• Growing case for G20 probe [ Toronto Star ]
• G-20 legal tidal wave hits court [ Globe & Mail ]
Other News
• Hume: As a street closes, a city opens up [ Toronto Star ]
• Picton residents try to save one-quarter demolished church [ Toronto Star ]
• What future for the ”priority neighbourhoods’? [ Toronto Star ]
• York U takes on Pan Am track [ Toronto Sun ]
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Congrats to U of T and especially Ryerson on the street closings. Could not make more sense in 2010, and bully for the universities to lead the way.
For the TTC to improve customer service it needs sustained operation funding/subsidies from the provincial and/or federal governments. Canada is the only western country that does not support public transit. When the Harris government cut the operating subsidy, that was when customer service went downhill. The TTC was cleaner before then, for example.
Gould is looking pretty nice! Run by and check it out.
Steve Munro wrote a scathing blog post on the museum issue, claims the Advisory Committee was end-run and that it is basically just a figleaf for the new HQ:
http://stevemunro.ca/?p=4259