COUNCILLOR PAY DEBATE
• City councillors refuse to debate wage freeze [ National Post ]
• City council defers pay raise debate [ Toronto Star ]
• Councillors take raises [ Toronto Sun ]
TTC EXPANSION
• Is Union Station cheque in mail? [ Toronto Star ]
• Mississauga, Halton ready to roll [ Toronto Star ]
• City may fast-track relief line [ National Post
• City favours relief line over subway [ Toronto Star ]
• Rail-link protest still chugging [ Toronto Star ]
• Subways are coveted in suburbs [ Toronto Star ]
FEDERAL BUDGET
• Devil in the details, budget critics say [ National Post ]
• Federal funds to provide for 36 new transit police in
Toronto [ Globe & Mail ]
OTHER NEWS
• Toronto church leader denounces atheist ‘attack ads’ [ Globe & Mail ]
• Can Toronto learn to love winter? [ Toronto Star ]
• Clouds part in hydro storm [ Toronto Star ]
• Raitt’s expenses ‘clarified’ but we can’t tell you how [ Globe & Mail ]
• Fledgling Toronto book fair dealt a blow [ Globe & Mail ]
• Pickering residents fume over odour [ Toronto Star ]
• Smoking butted by the pool [ Toronto Sun ]
• Tory upset with timing of announcement on eastern extension of
Highway 407 [ Globe & Mail
2 comments
Last week i commented on the Pearson Union link, which as it is planned will be a white elephant and will only serve a limited crowd of incoming and outgoing pearson patrons, some gamblers (proposed stop added at Woodbine), totally neglecting the city’s west end communities. I recall that most of the comments that day agreed with these statements so I will continue with this brief comment.
Today I read the columns from the post and star regarding the downtown relief line that council has resurrected and asked to be bumped up in priority by metrolinx. Has anyone looked at what is proposed, besides the obvious and sometimes overlooked experts. They want a subway for the DRL..great, but look where it starts and where it ends (see map in the post column)…We complain about patch work systems and yet here we have a possible future of an LRT running down don mills and into pape terminating at bloor, the DRL beginnning at Pape running down into the core an up the rail corridor (A/G or U/G not indicated) towards Bloor near lansdown…ahem the same corridor planned for diesels to the airport…
I support all the routes..but why not eliminate the lower part of the proposed Jane line (tie in at the corridor overpass), run a Transit City proposed LRT from the airport down the corridor with stops as needed into the core and out the DRL route up Pape and into Don Mills as proposed…tada..no patchwork…one line, one technolgy, one ticket…how about it? Anyone…
Ryan: Transit City-style LRT can’t handle the level of demand in the DRL corridor. The goal is to relieve 40% of Yonge line demand south of Bloor. That’s a lot of riders.