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TRANSIT
• McGuinty muddies TTC talks [ Toronto Star ]
• McGuinty threatens to nix TTC right to strike [ Globe and Mail ]
• McGuinty: ‘Failure not an option’ for TTC contract talks [ National Post ]
• TTC workers could be ordered back to work, Ont. premier says [ CBC.ca ]
• Public potshots: clash of the TTC titans [ Globe and Mail ]
• Chances of a strike are slim to none [ Toronto Star ]
• Ditch the car – but how? [ Toronto Star ]
• ‘EcoCabs’ ready to give commuters a lift [ Globe and Mail ]

ENVIRONMENT
• You look marvelous, Toronto! [ Toronto Star ]
• Toronto takes its trash to the tracks with the first rail cars running our rubbish to the landfill in Michigan [ Toronto Sun ]
• Ban lifted on drying laundry outside [ Toronto Sun ]
• Ontarians free to hang clothes in yards [ CBC.ca ]

MISCELLANEOUS
• Notes on a city unbecoming [ Toronto Star ]
• Yorkville is a world devoted to tourists, luxury spending [ Toronto Star ]

7 comments

  1. From the Ditch the car article:

    “GO expects to spend $300 million in the next five years to add 2,500 parking spaces, in elevated parking structures rather than sprawling surface lots wherever possible.”

    120,000 a parking spot a bit much?

    “GO has always embedded the price of parking in its tickets, says Bill Jenkins, director of customer service”.

    Maybe I am missing something here but if the price of parking is hidden in the price of the ticket aren’t people who don’t park subsidizing people that do?

    In another article this week in the star.

    “Free parking is, as Donald Shoup of UCLA put it in a recent book, “a fertility drug for cars.”

  2. tony: most of my parking knowledge comes from Donald Shoup’s book, but according to him, $120 000 per space is pretty much what parking spaces cost. And yes, people who don’t park are subsidizing people who do–this happens at any store that offers free parking as well, where the store has to raise the price of their wares to factor in the cost of the parking spaces.

  3. The _Star_ headline actually used the (somewhat contentious) Canadian spelling “marvellous,” not the (less contentious, generally more American) “marvelous.”

  4. It’s too bad that the online version of the EcoCabs article doesn’t include the picture from the print version.

    These things look brilliant- they’re pedal powered, covered, 3-seater bicycles. The article is pretty skimpy on details, but I’d love to know more about where these things are coming from and how much they actually cost to produce.

  5. How many local bus services could be funded from even half of that $300m? How many more if you slapped even a small fee on the existing lots? Once a car lot becomes full, it’s time to start charging, not paving.

    I am very pleased by the Sun article on train-moved garbage, think this should have happened years ago and hope this is only going to increase. Now we have find ways to not only reducing the load being used, but to repatriate the organics going to Quebec and process them locally.