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CITY COUNCIL
• City Hall Diary: Open-doored City Hall is the people’s house [The Star]
• Hume: Ford wreaking havoc but outmanoeuvring his foes [The Star]
• TCHC chooses its CFO as interim chief executive [The Star]
• Can federal politicans take a page from the Ford manual? [Globe & Mail]

TRANSIT
• Transit plan gets bumpy ride on both sides of subway divide [The Star]
• James: Shining new transit reality is a dream lost [The Star]
• Angry Finch commuters: ‘Tell the mayor to walk in our shoes’ [The Star]
• Next stop, TTC station sponsorships? [The Star]
• Despite handshakes, McGuinty and Ford part ways on transit projects [Globe & Mail]
• Opposition groups urge Mayor to rethink his transit plan overhaul [National Post]
• Posted Toronto Political Panel: Assessing Toronto’s new transit plan [National Post]
• Q&A: Digging into transit plan [National Post]
• Chris Selley: Just like Transit City, Ford’s plan is better than nothing [National Post]
• TTC chairman’s travel budget rocketed upward [The Sun]
• Variety likely to get bus stop, Stintz says [The Sun]
• Welcome to Your New SUBWAY(TM) System, Toronto [Torontoist]

ROADS
• The Fixer: Missing section of curb leads to a slippery slope [The Star]

POLICE & CRIME
• ‘Sluts’ march against sexual assault stereotypes [The Star]
• Police cleared of wrongdoing in G20 injury case [The Star]
• Security firm faces charges from G8, G20 summits [Globe & Mail]
• Cop’s slut comment ‘stupid’: Chief [The Sun]

OUTDOORS
• Parks and recreation road show set to roll [The Star]
• Toronto school gripped by cricket fever [The Star]
• Ravines a defining aspect of Toronto [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto’s trees, by the numbers [OpenFile]

HISTORY
• On the town with Andrew J. Borkowski [National Post]
• Nostalgia Tripping: Ellesmere and Brockton [BlogTO]
• Historicist: The Cheesiest Poet of All [Toronotist]

OTHER NEWS
• Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Africentric school controversy surfaces at Oakwood [National Post]
• New businesses are cooking up more than just profits [Globe & Mail]

10 comments

  1. “Police cleared of wrongdoing in G20 injury case”: of course they were.

    I watched my democracy die in the ‘kettling’ at Queen and Spadina via CityTV, in the comfort of my own living room. I was surprised they were allowed to show it. They won’t be allowed next time.

  2. The Posted Toronto discussion really hits the nail on the head on Toronto’s new transit plan, regardless of where you stand on the issue.

  3. Actually, I think Hume’s article is kinda sucky today, as usual.

  4. Maria, will have to disagree with you. I don’t like much of what Ford is doing. But as a columnist on city matters, Hume has lost all credibility. All columnists are to some extent partisan…but we should expect them to score the bulk of their points on the basis of rational argument rather than just demonizing those with alternative points of view. Hume is a perfect example of how low political discourse in the local media has fallen. He is shrill (a descriptor that should be applied to men as well as women when appropriate), basically comes across as anti-democratic, and is only able to get his points across by completely (and thoroughly) overlooking any shortcomings of the previous administration at CityHall. Oh, and like his counterpart at the Sun, Sue-Ann Levy, his columns seem to be less about presenting a cogent point of view, and more about having a hissy fit in print. There is a reason why Ford is in office, and it has very little to do with the fact that he is Ford. It has to do with the fact that he positioned himself as the anti-Miller. There might be some hope for Hume as a columnist should he ever chose to acknowledge that.. but I’m not betting on it.

  5. That’s a very slanted way of looking at Hume’s current column as well as his body of work over many years. He’s clearly frustrated with the current regime but he has every reason to be, and his column lays the reasons out fairly cogently.

    It does no one any good to pretend that the bros. Ford are not a destructive force.

  6. It’s pretty amazing that, with all the carping about the diesel airport link, no one picked up that an all-underground LRT on Eglinton means pretty much never getting an airport LRT connection as a cheap, electric alternative for budget travelers, large families, and airport workers.

    The beauty of the Transit City Eglinton LRT was that is was underground where is needed to be, but once Eglinton spread out into a wide suburban arterial the LRT came onto the surface. With its own ROW and fairly long stoplight spacings, this would not have been a large speed impediment and it would have offered tremendous extension potential. If the mandate is that all LRT must be underground, you are never going to come up with the funds to extend the line. But if all it takes is a little surface work to extend the rails another km or two every few years that line could easily get out to the airport and other hubs in the 905 in short order. Do I need to make another video about cities where this model works perfectly well? (You could also go elevated once out of the core, but that is still expensive — see the zero extensions built for the SRT in 35 years.)

    All-underground mantra is great for keeping transit out of Ford’s windshield but the death of any easy expansion. Surface rail transit has its place, something Fordians cannot understand.

  7. @Iskyscraper, yeah the link from Eglinton to Airport was an important feature… another solution would be to have a Pearson-Union Link priced/structured so that locals could afford it and use it. Which is probably the option that would do more than any LRT to significantly improve transit in the NorthWest quadrant of the City. Talk about funding white elephants from day one.

  8. Don’t give up hope, ISkyscraper. As long as Eglinton remains uses LRT technology and isn’t switched to SRT, future extensions could be above ground. Even the section between Don Mills and Kennedy could be on the surface because that section probably won’t start construction until Ford is gone.

  9. Mayor Rob Ford s transportation plan cheats Toronto s suburbs of their fair share of 8.7 billion in provincial transit funds according to the Toronto Environmental Alliance. TEA which supports an older transit plan says Ford s underground proposal will mean less transit to fewer riders.