The Star
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TTC Union Threatens Wildcat Strike (Updated)
The photograph on the left is courtesy of the photographer 416 Style and is used in accordance to its Creative Commons license. Toronto area commuters...
By James Bow -
Winning design announcement on the way…
There are a couple of articles in The Star today about the Waterfront . . . you can almost taste the excitement building up to the announcement of the...
By Ian Malczewski -
Sleeping beauty . . . and a new flag?
The Star‘s Christopher Hume writes that the addition of a Sobey’s supermarket to the Queen’s Quay terminal is helping wake up the...
By Ian Malczewski -
Name That Subway
The TTC has finally had enough of boring, old internal “engineer speak” it uses to refer to the various of models of subway trains it has used...
By Matthew Blackett -
Waterfront design competition
The Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation (TWRC) is sponsoring a $20 million international design competition to re-design the area from the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Weekend round-up of links
Murray Whyte of the Star write about orphan spaces: “They are the unloved, invisible and, chances are, right outside your door — dozens of...
By Matthew Blackett -
Federal Budget Introduces Transit Tax Credit
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. The first budget of the newly-elected Conservative government, introduced yesterday, contained enough spending measures...
By James Bow -
Weekend round-up
A list of articles from the weekend newspapers: Tall buildings and shadows: Spacing associate editor Dylan Reid posted on the Spacing Wire back in...
By Matthew Blackett -
Will the GTTA really help?
From the Star today: “Will the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority soar like an eagle, or will it be a turkey? That question was posed by Glen...
By Matthew Blackett -
Three Choices for Scarborough
Photo by Calum Tsang. Crossposted to Transit Toronto. Scarborough residents won’t receive the full presentation until later tonight, but the Toronto...
By James Bow -
How to be a great city; pedestrianizing Toronto; homeless survey
The Star on Sunday has some more good articles on city building. 1. From “How to be a great city”: What are the forces that shape the urban...
By Matthew Blackett -
Live Free and Die (on bikes)
I bought this hot (as in sexy, not stolen) Peugeot bike in Windsor last week for $40, complete with “new rubber” and in very good working...
By Shawn Micallef