Transit
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Get deals with your Metropass
Tomorrow may bring another TTC fare hike, but you can win some of that money back by using your Metropass to bring you discounts. How? Just show your...
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Waterfront, GTTA news, Mississauga BRT, trees in Oakville
The Toronto Star has a number of articles today that may be of interest to you: Christopher Hume from the Toronto Star, on the city’s waterfront...
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Newmindspace subway party tonight
Just in from the HQ of newmindspace SUBWAY PARTY TONIGHT The theme: “Oh, the places you’ll go!” by Dr. Seuss. Think bubbles and...
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Developing Vaughan
Today’s development story is not about the waterfront. Its about “downtown” Vaughan. It seems developers like the idea of the Spadina...
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Google and transit
We had this recent post about the TTC and Google getting together to make a trip planner map called Google Transit. Portland is the only city currently...
By Matthew Blackett