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SPACING: new issue release party May 2nd
Spacing Release Party When: Tuesday, May 2nd, doors 8pm Where: Gladstone Hotel • 1214 Queen Street West Who: DJ Chris Thinn How much: $10 includes...
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New Streetcars More Likely in TTC’s Future
This past Wednesday, TTC Commissioners decided to rebuild only 100 CLRVs of its fleet of 196. The rebuilds would begin in 2007 and ramp up to 30 cars per...
By James Bow -
Spadina Streetcar Operating Below Full Potential?
In discussing the TTC’s proposal for multiple-unit operation, transit activist Steve Munro notes that coupling two streetcars together as a means of...
By James Bow -
TTC promotions
Ed Drass of the Metro daily transit paper has a column today on the TTC’s promotional ideas. The column includes a nod to Spacing‘s...
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Public Meetings Ahead and Behind
Crossposted to Transit Toronto. The public will have a chance to discuss what to do about the Scarborough RT at a meeting to be held in the Scarborough...
By James Bow -
T.O.’s Expo bid, the Metropass, the suburbs
A few links to articles in the Toronto Star today: With the city set to decide late next month whether to back a bid for the Expo 2015 world’s fair...
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A Toronto “What If?”
Today’s Toronto Star has a great section called “What If?” It is very much like our “History of our Future” issue from last...
By Matthew Blackett -
Connect the streetcars
The TTC is considering turning two or three streetcars into one long “coupled” vehicle along the King Street streetcar route. The...
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Save Otter Loop II: Opponents Speak; You Should Too
(Otter Loop photograph by Richard Leitch) Janice Etter, Chair of the Etobicoke-York Community Preservation Panel, offers this update on the drive to...
By James Bow -
Developing downtown Vaughan
As we posted a few weeks ago, “downtown” Vaughan will rise thanks to the provincial government’s decision to fund the Spadina/York...
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Public space in the news today
Here are a few links to articles in today’s papers: The TTC is going shopping for new streetcars. The photo above, from Minneapolis, is the new...
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Orange County’s very own SOS
Found this post by accident but I thought it was an interesting comparison to Toronto’s own Save Our St. Clair group. It seems back in 2003...
By Matthew Blackett