Thursday's Headlines - Spacing Toronto

CITY COUNCIL
• James: ‘Jobs for life’ still haunts Lastman [The Star]
• Toronto needs strong mayor with veto power, Doug Ford says [The Star]
• Councillors okay controversial ravine development [The Sun]
• Cashing out at City Hall: Levy [The Sun]
• Councillors show their colours in trash fight: Levy [The Sun]

TRANSIT
• City eyes private partner to extend Sheppard subway [The Star]
• Hume: TTC yard in Leslieville (Video) [The Star]
• Ford pitches private financing plan for Sheppard subway extension [Globe & Mail]
• McGuinty emerges a winner in Sheppard subway plan [Globe & Mail]
• Strike looms as York Region bus drivers, mechanics reject contract offer [Globe & Mail]
• Rob Ford’s subway dream sticks it to taxpayers [National Post]
• “Transportation City” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue [National Post]

HOUSING & NEIGHBOURHOODS
• Porter: Parks lovers launch rescue plan [The Star]
• City gives garage murals a break [The Star]
• 200 residents evacuated after apartment fire [Globe & Mail]
• Gimme shelter: a solution for homelessness [Eye Weekly]

NIGHTLIFE
• Bovine Sex Club: an oral history [Eye Weekly]
• Such great hype: condo market power players [Eye Weekly]
• King state of mind [Toronto Life]

BUILDINGS
• Chris Selley: The impotence of a heritage designation [National Post]
• From Big Bop to furniture shop [OpenFile]

OTHER NEWS
• The Fixer: Huge hole snarls Dundas St. traffic [The Star]
• Toronto skipped by royals for first Canadian tour [The Star]
• Kate and Will missing out on T.O. [The Sun]
• If you like historical maps of Toronto, go here… [BlogTO]
• What Toronto looks like from space [BlogTO]

One comment

The Fords have apparently discovered that privately-funded subway extensions can change the laws of space and time. (And isn’t spacing interested in space?)

Doug Ford said this morning on Metro Morning that all the poor schlubs who live in Scarborough couldn’t work downtown because it was a two-hour trip by transit, and that was too long. The Sheppard subway extension would reduce their trip time to twenty-five minutes.

Interestingly, from Don Mills to Bloor and Yonge at present takes 31 minutes, so the run from Scarborough Town Centre to Don Mills must clock in at minus six minutes. Aren’t privately-funded subways wonderful?

But wait….there’s more….those people who face two-hour trips must live somewhere like Finch and Morningside. The bus trip to Scarborough Town Centre is anywhere between 26 and 35 minutes when I checked on the TTC’s trip planner. This means that the remaining subway journey must be between minus one and minus ten minutes to downtown (assuming that Doug Ford counts Bloor and Yonge as downtown….anyway, *I* do).

(And the TTC’s trip planner showed a 70-to-75 minute trip from Finch and Morningside to Yonge and Bloor, no magic subways required. I wonder where Ford got his “two hours” from?)

Ed

14 years ago

The Fords have apparently discovered that privately-funded subway extensions can change the laws of space and time. (And isn’t spacing interested in space?)

Doug Ford said this morning on Metro Morning that all the poor schlubs who live in Scarborough couldn’t work downtown because it was a two-hour trip by transit, and that was too long. The Sheppard subway extension would reduce their trip time to twenty-five minutes.

Interestingly, from Don Mills to Bloor and Yonge at present takes 31 minutes, so the run from Scarborough Town Centre to Don Mills must clock in at minus six minutes. Aren’t privately-funded subways wonderful?

But wait….there’s more….those people who face two-hour trips must live somewhere like Finch and Morningside. The bus trip to Scarborough Town Centre is anywhere between 26 and 35 minutes when I checked on the TTC’s trip planner. This means that the remaining subway journey must be between minus one and minus ten minutes to downtown (assuming that Doug Ford counts Bloor and Yonge as downtown….anyway, *I* do).

(And the TTC’s trip planner showed a 70-to-75 minute trip from Finch and Morningside to Yonge and Bloor, no magic subways required. I wonder where Ford got his “two hours” from?)