CITY HALL
• Rob Ford accused of assault and death threat [ Toronto Star ]
• Toronto police charge councillor with assault [ Globe and Mail ]
• Update: Rob Ford charged with assault, threatening death [ National Post ]
• Ford on assault rap [ Toronto Sun ]
• Toronto city councillor charged with assault [ CBC.ca ]
• Mayor David Miller should have second thoughts about his trade trip to China while ignoring Tibetans in Toronto [ Toronto Sun ]
• Miller’s balanced budget claim has a special slant [ Toronto Star ]
TRANSIT
• TTC union considers slowdown of service [ Toronto Star ]
• TTC union steps up threat of job action [ Globe and Mail ]
• Work-to-rule campaign ‘definitely a possibility,’ transit union leader says [ National Post ]
• TTC strike ‘last resort’: Union [ Toronto Sun ]
• TTC approves unique look for stations [ National Post ]
• These city walls [ Eye Weekly ]
• Earlier closing time for Yonge line [ Toronto Sun ]
• ‘Bull in china shop’ mellows as leadership style matures [ Toronto Star ]
ROM
• Kudos for crystal [ Globe and Mail ]
• Magazine considers Crystal a global gem [ National Post ]
• Crystal quite a wonder [ Toronto Sun ]
DEVELOPMENT
• No big box on Eastern Ave! [ Eye Weekly ]
• Reimagining Leslieville [ NOW magazine ]
MISCELLANEOUS
• Forgotten York [ Eye Weekly ]
• Lights-out movement gathers momentum [ Toronto Star ]
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Bus scheduling almost requires drivers to speed, Kinnear said. “We will adhere to all the Highway Traffic Act (regulations) and all the signage. That is one of the options, and there’s no doubt that would slow down service.”
If normal TTC ops means breaking the HTA, this is a disgrace and the Commissioners should be calling the TTC schedulers to check if Kinnear is full of crap or whether a city agency is forcing its employees to break the law.
Hmmm…I wonder if stopping your bus/streetcar and running in for a coffee and then realizing that while waiting in line you’ve fallen behind schedule and then speeding to catch it up is against the law.
There is no greater head-shaking inducing experience than the TTC operator leaving the vehicle for a snack.
Good think I never have anywhere to be…
David Miller should reconsider the $70,000 trip to china.Not only because of the situation in Tibet,but just the fact that China is one of the biggest polluters in the world and refuse to accept our example of protecting the environment.The Communist government should never be supported in any way,but then again that goes for other Communist regimes considering their constant human rights abuses.
Oh, shut up George.
My experience is quite the opposite of what Kinnear describes. Most of the bus routes I use seem to have too much running time, so that the buses often travel at very sloooow speeds, and drivers often hold at various intersections so as not to arrive at the terminal early (see the 70 route for a good example of this).
If anything, running times should be reduced, and drivers not be permitted to stop in the middle of their route to grab a coffee or a snack. When I’m at work, I can’t just get up when I’m in the middle of a conference call or meeting, so if I know I will be tied up for a few hours, I make sure I bring whatever I may need with me (a drink, snack, whatever). There’s no reason bus drivers can’t to the same thing and ‘brown-bag’ whatever they may need between terminals.
I finally visited the ROM on Monday, and I was pretty surprised at how underwhelming the Crystal is from the inside. It’s not just underwhelming, it’s awful. It just looks like sheets and sheets of drywall, waiting pathetically with seams and rivets exposed, for Mike Holmes to tear into the contractors’ shoddy workmanship. It doesn’t look beautiful, it doesn’t look modern, it doesn’t look like a cutting edge architectural style, it just looks ugly and unfinished in a very boring, culturally un-challenging sort of way. And what a massive amount of unaesthetically pleasing wasted space…it’s shameful.
The exhibits housed in the Crystal aren’t any better. Check out the South Asian/Middle Eastern exhibit. There doesn’t seem to be ANY rhyme or reason to how it’s organized, and the information they provide is little more than decontextualized snippets that make no sense on their own or when combined with the other snippets. It occurred to me that it might be an attempt to reflect a non-Western method of organization or pedagogy, but I’m pretty sure that’s not it…it’s just bad, plain and simple.
melissa>I think the “original” plan was for the whole facade to be all in glass and that would truly make the structure look like a large crystal.But something happened during construction that brought to light the impossible that the glass could not be manufactured as design and the plan was “revised” to basically siding the structure and going with conventional construction.It’s a shame that a Vision became an eye sore.