Wednesday’s headlines

JARVIS BIKE LANES
• City council kills Jarvis bike lanes [Toronto Sun]
• Jarvis bike lanes to be removed after last-ditch council effort to save them fails [Toronto Star]
• Jarvis bike lanes to be removed by end of year [Globe & Mail]

TTC METROPASSES
• TTC Metropasses targeted in credit card fraud scheme: Cops [Toronto Sun]
• Five men arrested in TTC pass fraud investigation [National Post]
• Arrests in fake debit-card plot that swindled TTC out of $180,000 [Globe & Mail]

TORONTO ZOO
• Toronto Zoo: Conservation authority nixes selling or turning zoo over to new operators [Toronto Star]
• Toronto Zoo sale hits new snakes on lease deal and profits over pandas [Globe & Mail]

ENWAVE ENERGY
• Councillors debate how to spend ‘huge profit’ from sale of stake in Enwave Energy [National Post]
• City reaps windfall from sale of its stake in energy corporation [Globe & Mail]

OTHER NEWS
• Students lengthen walkout to two days [Toronto Star]
• Wild beauty — or weeds? Opinions differ on ‘natural garden’ that replaced lawn [Toronto Star]
• Toronto taxi driver who crushed cyclist’s leg sentenced to almost two years in prison [National Post]
• Toronto city council to revisit plastic bag ban [National Post]
Best hope for transit funding: income and sales taxes [Toronto Star]
• Toronto casino would be bad gamble, group says [Toronto Sun]

3 comments

  1. Any chance of having a breakdown on which councillors voted for or against the removing of bike lanes on Jarvis?

  2. Jorge – see if you can read this.  Matt Elliott’s Twitter feed notes some councillors that voted in favour of reinstatement despite previous statements that would appear to indicate otherwise.

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