Transit
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Remembering the ill-fated CN Turbo train
On December 10, 1968, a sleek new locomotive glided out from the sooty train shed at Toronto’s Union Station. Streamlined and silver with a bright...
By Chris Bateman -
Stroller etiquette
Spacing is crowd-sourcing opinions from our readers on stroller etiquette for buses, streetcars, and the subway. Please tell us where you think parents...
By Spacing -
How the TTC lost and found its subway style
Not many people could have known that behind the advertising billboards on the platform of College station was something no-one had seen for more than...
By Chris Bateman -
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...
By John Lorinc -
Enter our draw to go on Lower Bay Station photo tour
WHAT: Photo tour of Lower Bay Station WHEN: Monday, Nov. 16, 2015 WHERE: Lower Bay Station COST: Free DEADLINE FOR DRAW: Wed. Nov. 11 For the first time...
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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...
By John Lorinc -
On Brampton’s short-sighted Hurontario-Main LRT decision
Cross-posted from Marshall’s Musings, the author’s personal blog On late Tuesday night (actually, early Wednesday morning) Brampton City Council...
By Sean Marshall -
To interchange or not to interchange: Spadina vs. St. George?
Toronto’s four subway routes are easy to navigate. Trains always run the same routes and there are only five interchange stations. Switching lines is...
By Shoshanna Saxe -
Shedding light on public transit and invisible disabilities
A few years ago, Stats Canada conducted a survey exploring disabilities and found that 3.8 million adult Canadians identified as “disabled.” However, a...
By Jay Pitter -
What Philadelphia can teach Toronto about art, history, and public spaces
Among North American cities, few can boast the depth of history that’s on offer in Philadelphia. The compact downtown, plotted out by William Penn in the...
By John Lorinc -
Forgotten TTC architecture a reminder of nixed transit plans
Toronto is building the East Bayfront LRT. Well, sort of. This week, Metro News reported that the City of Toronto has set aside $2 million to “rough...
By Chris Bateman -
Happy birthday to the Toronto streetcar system
There are perhaps few things more symbolic of Toronto than its streetcars. For more than 150 years, surface rail has formed the backbone of the...
By Chris Bateman