By James Bow
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Province Complicates York University Extension With Money
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. Despite the highlights of Ontario’s recently announced budget, and despite earlier indications that the York...
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Is Thunder Bay Worth $180 Million?
It may be before the starter’s gun, but Siemens has brought forward a bid to build 232 subway cars to replace old cars on the TTC’s fleet. The...
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Province Rolls Out Greater Toronto Transit Authority
CARLOS OSORIO/TORONTO STAR TTC and Mississauga buses share space at Islington station. Crossposted to Transit Toronto. The Toronto Star is reporting that...
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Moscoe Responds to Anagram Map Challenge
Earlier this week, Sean Lerner, who challenged the TTC’s legal department by reprinting the original version of RobotJohnny’s Anagram Map...
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Battle of St. Clair Won. SOS Abandons Court Battle for Politics
As the window to appeal the superior court decision reinstating the St. Clair private right-of-way project closes, the opposition group Save Our St. Clair...
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Ducharme to Province: Fix My System First, Then Talk Subways
It’s not that Rick Ducharme doesn’t appreciate the money that may have been promised to extend the Spadina subway to York University...
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York University Subway Extension is a Go
The Toronto Star is reporting that the provincial government will announce funding to extend the Spadina subway from Downsview to York University in...
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Commentary: It’s Time to Break Up the Queen Streetcar
The Queen streetcar remains one of the TTC’s most prominent and well-travelled routes, but it is a shadow of its former self. Twenty-five years ago...
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40th anniversary of Bloor-Danforth subway passes (almost) without comment
Forty years ago this past Sunday, the public boarded the first revenue trains operating on the Bloor-Danforth subway. The line, running between Keele and...
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Toronto to Force New Condo Developers to Buy TTC Passes for Residents?
That’s Howard Moscoe’s suggestion, as a possible revenue stream for the TTC, and as a means of encouraging residents of new condominiums...
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Who Rides 33 Forest Hill?
Cross-posted from Transit Toronto: Who rides the 33 Forest Hill? About 750 individuals per day, actually. Though it is one of 62 “poor performing...
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Transit Notes – February 17, 2006
Crossposted from Transit Toronto. The Toronto Transit Commission unveiled its February service changes earlier this week (details here), comprising...