MAYORAL RACE
• ‘Ford effect’ spreads to the 905 [The Star]
• James: What I like about Rocco Rossi [The Star]
• Election Ephemera: A week in candidate tweets [The Star]
• Ford’s fiscal plan playing voters for fools [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto’s non-citizens: can’t vote, but still engaged [Globe & Mail]
• Robert Fulford: My confession – I voted for the worst mayor Toronto’s ever had [National Post]
• Candidates help needy [The Sun]
• Melding EMS and firefighters a tough road [The Sun]
GTA ELECTIONS
• Nothing beats knock-knock for election’s young hopefuls [The Star]
• Brampton mayor’s private ‘community fund’ not registered [The Star]
• Centre-Rosedale sports plenty of good choices [Globe & Mail]
• Posted Toronto Political Panel: What, there are 44 other races? [National Post]
• Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Representation from the outside [National Post]
• Mississauga election: In the eye of the hurricane [National Post]
TRANSPORTATION
• Candidates appeal to voters’ giant appetites for transit [The Star]
• Moving forward: TTC commute takes 2 hours, 10 minutes [The Star]
• Interactive: Subway Commuting [The Star]
• Interactive: Surface transit [The Star]
• Interactive: Biking [The Star]
• Interactive: Highways [The Star]
CRIME
• Chinatown thief faces new charges [The Star]
• Community needed in crime fight: Victim advocate [The Sun]
5 comments
“Posted Toronto Political Panel: What, there are 44 other races?”
Sean McCormick is a “socially-progressive, fiscal conservative”? Didn’t this social progressive call on the police to round up the homeless at Queen and Bathurst during the all-candidates debate a couple weeks ago? He is not even a fiscal conservative. He’s a frat boy trying to win a drunken argument in a bar.
Yeah, Anthony Furey really revealed his colours in that piece.
Hume: North Toronto Collegiate a lesson in city-building [Toronto Star]
That article on bus commuting has got to be the worst of the series. Really now, you are commuting from Finch/Islington to 1 Yonge Street and you decide to use the Yonge Street bus? (Let alone the Queen streetcar and Islington buses.) The only people that would do that are people that have been assigned to write a newspaper article about the horrors of riding buses.
It would be laughable if it didn’t result in turning off readers from using transit. (“I’ve been on public transit for four and a half hours. My misery is just for today. For 22 per cent of Ward 7 residents, this is life, minus the muffins.”) No, for 22 per cent of Ward 7 residents (or, more specifically, the percentage that would travel to 1 Yonge), life would involve using the Spadina or Yonge subways, or even the GO train.
That is not to say that the commute, even on the subway is not long — Google Transit suggests around 90 minutes using the Spadina subway (including a 10 minute walk from Union, and a generous 8-minute transfer to the subway at Wilson station). A better and more constructive article would say, here’s the realistic commute that transit riders face using routings that actually make sense, and here’s the specific savings in travel time that riders would experience once planned projects are completed (e.g., I estimate Finch West LRT and Spadina extension would chop off nearly half an hour).
Brent, check Monday’s headlines for a piece using the Islington bus and subway. Still, according to the TTC’s trip planner taking the Finch bus to the Dufferin/York University BRT to the subway is the fastest way.