By John Lorinc
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LORINC: Airport and Portlands to be transit hubs of activity?
All of a sudden, two glimmering celestial objects have appeared in the night sky above that fantastical dreamscape we sometimes refer to as Greater...
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LORINC: Tell me how Toronto will pay for transit plans — then I’ll get excited
A few years ago, University of Toronto Schools teacher Josh Fullan and I concocted a transit game for the students in his Maximum City program. Each group...
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LORINC: How the City plans to pay for services in the future
The 2016 budget debate, which lands today at executive committee after doing the usual rounds, has offered up a curious mix of urgency and its opposite...
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LORINC: All the evidence points to more stalling
And lo, after the people of the town had spent these six long years wandering blindly in a stormy and seemingly ceaseless night, a young messenger named...
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LORINC: Which track is Smart Track on?
One of the enduring features of Toronto’s so-called transit debate is the uneven and treacherous information terrain that ordinary citizens are forced to...
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LORINC: What if City Council actually talked about buses?
Bad choices beget more bad choices. If I lie on a government form, I will almost inevitably have to dissemble more in order to ensure the continued...
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LORINC: Fixing the federal vote
If the federal Liberals have endured anything even faintly resembling a controversy so far in these early halcyon days of their majority, it occurred over...
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LORINC: Why UberHop will help the TTC
When I look at the wonderfully clean map that Uber has provided for its new jitney service, it’s not hard to see how frustrated commuters from transit...
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LORINC: Revenue Tools — The Force Awakens?
Notwithstanding his conversion this week on the toll road to Damascus, Mayor John Tory’s looming financial problems were abundantly visible to anyone who...
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LORINC: Have Toronto police learned anything at all about de-escalation?
The shouting about Paris and the ugly political aftermath has made it difficult to hear almost everything else that’s taking place in our world, including...
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LORINC: How to invest with Crosstown’s found money
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let’s just rewind a bit, past Wednesday’s Trudeau-palooza, to that interesting little moment last Tuesday when Ontario’s...
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LORINC: Spend Brampton LRT money on Queen’s Quay East
When Brampton council voted last week to kill a rapid transit line that would not have cost the city an, um, red cent, one thought sprang immediately to...