TRANSIT
• Ford-Transit City hybrid plan in the works [The Star]
• TTC or city council but not both, Stintz tells driver [The Star]
• Nothing can stop a train powered by politics [Globe & Mail]
YONGE & GOULD FIRE
• Officials probe cause of massive early morning fire [The Star]
• Fire ravages historic Yonge St. building [The Star]
• The long and storied history of 335 Yonge St. [The Star]
• Mysterious fire guts Toronto heritage building [Globe & Mail]
• Arson not ruled out in Yonge Street fire [National Post]
• Neglect alleged in historic building fire [The Sun]
• Historic building shouldn’t be razed [The Sun]
CITY BUILDINGS
• The Fixer: Clock tower bells at Old City Hall not keeping chime [The Star]
• Unseen City: The R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant [Torontoist]
POLICE
• Health care executive named to police board [The Star]
OTHER NEWS
• Toronto man has raised $600,000 on streetcorner [The Star]
• Mayor aims at black eye [London Free Press]
• Toronto of the 1890s [BlogTO]
3 comments
A compromise between Ford’s plan and Transit City could very well be the best of both worlds. With all the arguing between killing TC and saving TC, I’ve always maintained that we should use this opportunity to FIX Transit City.
I won’t predict that a revised plan will be a perfect transit dream, but I am optimistic that it will be better than what is proposed…
Looks like Jane and Finch will get screwed, once more. This while Doug Saunders describes Toronto’s outskirts as having some of the worst conditions for new immigrants to successfully integrate:
“…places like Malton and Jane and Finch that didn’t work. A large part is because of few physical connections to the larger city.”
I doubt that being able to take a subway from the Sheppard to Scarborough Town malls in 10 years is going to help our new Canadians have as successful a time as the 1970s downtown Toronton Italians and Portuguese did.
At least those near Jane and Finch will have the Finch West subway station near by.