BIKES
• Bike lanes deserve better than to be exploited as a cynical election issue [ Globe & Mail ]
• ‘Bike vs. car’: Not a black and white issue [ Toronto Star ]
• Mammoliti: Start charging bike licensing fees [ Toronto Sun ]
• Mayoral candidates up in arms over bike lanes [ Toronto Star ]
TRANSIT
• David Miller: Let’s get on track [ Now Magazine ]
• TTC: the bitter way [ Eye Weekly ]
• TTC driver charged with assaulting passenger [ National Post ]
• TTC bus driver charged with assaulting teen passenger [ Toronto Star ]
OTHER NEWS
• ‘Furious George’ readies public face [ National Post ]
• Disabled voters get a boost [ Toronto Sun ]
• Your City My City: Grassroots activists have much to teach [ Toronto Star ]
• Bio: Rosemarie Powell [ Toronto Star ]
• Engineers try to make sense of the PATH [ Toronto Star ]
• School board studies sale of land to developers [ Globe & Mail ]
• T.O. police to simulate hostage situation in downtown core [ Globe & Mail ]
• City considers keeping stores open on holidays [ National Post ]
• More delays in prosecution of former Ontario attorney-general Bryant [ National Post ]
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Here we go again, with David Miller refering to the Sheppard and Finch LRT lines as “rapid transit”. It really does undermine his argument, because there will be nothing rapid about these new lines. They may end up being marginally faster than the existing bus service, but to refer to them as rapid transit is misleading and false. The only Transit City line that could be classified as rapid transit would be the underground, midtown portion of Eglinton. But to refer to any of the other lines as rapid transit is simply wrong.
Here is one you missed;
City still faces financial woes
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/795386–city-still-faces-financial-woes#article
I hate those new TTC messages they play in subway stations asking people to contact their MPs to fund Transfer City. The plan needs modifications and isn’t going to be success.
PATH is badly named, poorly mapped and horribly signed. Glad someone noticed. Hire the transit folks from Montreal to make the map and everyone would be happier.
http://www.stm.info/English/metro/souterrain2006.pdf
“The former deputy premier suffered a public blow…”
Too bad the article hadn’t just ended there. ; )
(Apologies for my juvenile sense of humour and mind that’s in the gutter. I blame it on the candidates…)