CITY HALL
• Writer files complaint over Ford’s expenses [National Post]
• City Hall Diary: Council less divided than you might think [The Star]
• City’s core service review out Monday [The Star]
• City bosses face buyout offer in Ford’s quest for cuts [The Star]
• High-ranking Toronto police offered buyouts as ‘comprehensive restructuring’ begins [The Star]
TRANSPORTATION – TTC & CYCLING
• Live bus arrival updates coming to the TTC [The Star]
• If you’re riding the Yonge-University line, you’re looking for love in all the wrong place [Globe & Mail]
• TTC chair apologizes for worker’s public washroom break [The Sun]
• The Fixer: Bad cycling habits can be deadly [The Star]
• Bike battle in the burbs [The Sun]
• City Hall’s ‘war on the bike’ [The Sun]
DEVELOPMENT
• David Pecaut Square: First a new name, next a new look [Globe & Mail]
• Don’t put all loans on ice because of hockey-rink failure, council told [Globe & Mail]
• Sand, sun – and smokestacks? [The Star]
• For city builders, there’s a new model in town [Globe & Mail]
• Yonge Street redesign drives battle between business and pedestrian [National Post]
• Angry residents meet with Rob Ford about Parkdale methadone clinic [The Star]
WATER
• A river’s-edge view of Canada’s newest national park [Globe & Mail]
• Canoeing the Rouge River: Part two [Globe & Mail]
• Go jump in the lake: One group’s efforts to get Torontonians swimming in Lake Ontario [National Post]
• Change to pool rules means less time for kids to cool off [The Star]
• New wading pool rules all wet: Councillor [The Sun]
OTHER NEWS
• Afrofest makes its case to stay in Queens Park [The Star]
• City to raise guard wire at Bluffs after teen’s fatal fall [The Star]
• Toronto by the names [The Star]
• A move to fight a tree-killing bug [The Sun]
3 comments
Re: Live bus arrival updates coming to the TTC
They are not longer coming. They are here!
The Fixer’s rant against cyclists is totally outside of the scope of his column. Never should have been approved by a responsible editor. A column by him about a week ago was loaded with sarcasm towards the removal of the Gardiner extension out to Leslie. I wonder from how far outside the 416 the Fixer commutes to the bottom of Yonge St.
Doesn’t the Star have a Vaughan newsroom too? Maybe Jack Lakey works there. He certainly has an anti-urban streak, and some rather old-fashioned ideas of what needs “fixing”.
So it’s a shame he’s the one to deliver a message that too many Toronto cyclists need to hear. One critical-injury accident does not make a pattern, but I have seen way too many cases of a cyclist blasting through a light or stop sign while going the wrong way on a one-way street. Sure, if there’s no one around, I don’t really care. But if I’m crossing that street, I don’t want a bike I haven’t even seen being the one to decide whether or not to gamble with my safety. It’s disrespectful, it’s dangerous, and it’s far too common.