TRANSIT
• Commuters shift to car-free mode [ Toronto Star ]
• Public transit, walking favoured by younger commuters [ CBC.ca ]
• Strike one option out [ Eye Weekly ]
• TTC chief: OT cheaper than hiring [ Toronto Sun ]
• Drivers made more than me: TTC chief [ National Post ]
• Worker who complained about smokers says he’s taking heat [ National Post ]
• Tipsters respond to subway video [ Toronto Sun ]
CITY HALL
• City eyes crackdown on running red lights [ Globe and Mail ]
• Report urges increase in red-light fines [ Toronto Star ]
• More red-light spies [ Toronto Sun ]
• Seeing red [ NOW magazine ]
• Steve Murray’s Newsmaker Fortune: Rob Ford [ National Post ]
• Living high on the hog [ Toronto Sun ]
• How Toronto measures up on merit pay [ Toronto Sun ]
• Optics trump taxes [ NOW magazine ]
EARTH HOUR
• Mega-power saved during Earth Hour [ Toronto Star ]
• Tales from the Dark City [ NOW magazine ]
• Blinded by the lights [ NOW magazine ]
MOSS PARK
• Moss Park residents don’t expect peace to last [ National Post ]
• Reservists claimed right to kill: witness [National Post ]
• Witness in beating of homeless man kicked ‘to the street’ [ Toronto Star ]
DEMOGRAPHICS
• Almost half of Torontonians visible minorities [ CBC.ca ]
• Visible minorities gaining [ Toronto Star ]
• Family’s new face of Canada [ Toronto Sun ]
• Including immigrants [ Eye Weekly ]
MISCELLANEOUS
• Gardening for the garden-less [ Eye Weekly ]
• No edge to this box [ NOW magazine ]
4 comments
From the Sun’s article on red light cameras:
“‘We support more red-light cameras,’ said Faye Lyons of the Canadian Automobile Association. ‘But we have been very clear that our position is that signage is posted at every installation.'”
Good news: the signs are already there. THEY’VE GOT A BIG RED LIGHT ON THEM.
Interesting that the Eye Editorial posted above almost reads like it was lifted from comments from an earlier Spacing Wire post. Not that the points aren’t valid, that was a good run of comments (and so much more respectful and thought-provoking than anything on the other two big Toronto blogs.
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2008/03/27/poll-should-the-ttc-be-allowed-to-strike/
Patrick: It was a good thread but note that Ed Keenan, who posted his thoughts in the thread you reference, is the City editor for Eye.
Eric: I couldn’t agree with you more. My biggest fear in my commute it the first or last 100 metres between by home and the bus stop, where I have to cross an intersection of two busy North York arterials. The intersection has red light camera boxes in one direction, but that doesn’t even deter right-light rushers blowing through when the walk signal turns white.
The same could be said for photo radar – shouldn’t maximum 60 mean maxiumum 60 km/h, and then you’re over the limit? There’s no signs warning motorists that police are allowed to set up radar traps? What makes photo radar any different.
Patrick/Adam, I had the same deja vu this morning looking through Eye, then remembered about Ed. Nice to see that conversation resulting in such a good editorial.