CITY HALL
• A crash course in politics [The Star]
• James: Councillors come and go [The Star]
• It’s official – Ford in charge [The Sun]
TTC
• Provincial showdown brewing over Transit City [The Star]
• TTC info a perk for riders at coffee shop [The Star]
• On transit, Rob Ford needs to show respect for taxpayers [Globe & Mail]
• Ford council vote on Transit City to decide fate of provincially-funded LRTs [Globe & Mail]
• Changes to Transit City plan will cost city [National Post]
• ‘No more’ money for transit expansion: McGuinty [National Post]
• Ford moves to kill Transit City [The Sun]
• New TTC headquarters to be reviewed [The Sun]
• TTC puts Sheppard East LRT on chopping block [The Sun]
• Stuff the bus with toy donations [The Sun]
TRANSPORTATION
• Airport tunnel impact minimal, residents told [The Star]
• Don Valley Mountain biking trail sabotaged [Torontoist]
• BIXI Toronto set to launch in May [BlogTO]
STREETSCAPE & CULTURE
• What does the future hold for Wallace and Lansdowne? [BlogTO]
• The Tranzac Transcripts: Bob Wiseman [Torontoist]
G20 AFTER-MATH
• SIU reopens investigation into G20 arrest [The Star]
• G20 protester in court to challenge bail conditions [The Star]
• Ontario police watchdog reopens G20 ‘Nobody’ arrest investigation [Globe & Mail]
• SIU reopens probe into G20 arrest [National Post]
• SIU calls Blair’s bluff [The Sun]
SCHOOLS
• Africentric school’s principal back at work [Globe & Mail]
• Gun scare prompts lockdowns at 2 east-end schools [The Star]
OTHER NEWS
• The Fixer: toilets have to go in two pieces [The Star]
• Fiorito: Mother and baby made homeless by bed bugs [The Star]
• Welfare deal in the works [The Sun]
4 comments
“What does the future hold for Wallace and Landsdowne? ”
ummm… it’s LANSDOWNE for the correct spelling. You’d think people would remember the ‘Giambrone Don’t Narrow Lansdowne’ protests, but then I remember even the TTC got it wrongwhen for many weeks on the new on-car streetcar stop displays they spelled it wrong too.
Like Rodney Dangerfield, Lansdowne gets no respect.
Re:TTC info a perk for riders at coffee shop
Here is a list of web sites and apps that use the NextBus data real time arrival information I put together:
http://www.nextbus.com/ iPhone Simple
Official site. Shows minutes for next 3 vehicles, and info for routes that share the same stop.
http://nextstreetcar.ca/
Simple interface. Shows minutes and time for next 5 vehicles
http://whereismystreetcar.appspot.com/ iPhone Simple
Has three interfaces, all of which include a map with streetcar locations. Show minutes for next 3 or 5 vehicles (depending on interface). Some interfaces show if it is a CLRV or ALRV.
TTC Navigator
An iPhone app that supports Nextbus arrivals. Untested.
http://doconnor.homeip.net/TransSee/
Simple interface. Shows minutes and seconds and time for next 5 vehicles, including car number and run number. Can also show info for any set of stops on one page. (The author is biased towards this site)
898882 (TXTTTC)
SMS text interface. I assume it shows minutes for next 3 vehicles, and info for routes that share the same stop.
By simple interface, I mean it uses basic HTML features suitable for even then oldest smart phones or most primitive web browsers. All sites have about the same ease of use.
It’s fixed, but it’s Lansdowne’s fault for being spelled weird in the first place.
Thanks for the typo catch (and the Dangerfield line), Ken. Seems what the future holds for Lansdowne this morning is proper spelling.