Transit
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What the Spadina subway overrun means for Scarborough, pt. 1
Parents: hide your children! Apparently, Mayor John Tory is in a state of high dudgeon over the reported (but as yet unconfirmed) $400 million overrun on...
By John Lorinc -
Transit Equity Introduction: achieving enhanced outcomes and possibilities
The year I started ninth grade, I was both nervous and excited. Having been the student council president and overall instigator at my junior high, I...
By Jay Pitter -
The Scarborough Subway and Smart Track are about to collide
Anyone who thinks they can read between the lines of the two sets of council votes this week — about the Scarborough subway and Smart Track — should...
By John Lorinc -
Welcome to your private nuclear fallout shelter
In 1959, the builders of Regency Acres, a 700-home subdivision in Aurora, Ontario, offered something no other homebuilder in the country could: a private...
By Chris Bateman -
LORINC: Local communities to help build Metrolinx projects
Just two weeks after Metrolinx’s boring machines broke through the extraction shaft at Allen Road, the regional agency reached another major milestone...
By John Lorinc -
Kids ride free – what’s next?
Growing up I was friends with a kid named Stacey. Although popular, I envied what I perceived to be her level of sophistication. She was a head taller...
By Jay Pitter -
This is what the Toronto subway tastes like
Union Station tastes like fried onions. James Wannerton knows this because he tastes words. Due to a rare and unusual neurological condition called...
By Chris Bateman -
The new American streetcar: A visit to Detroit, Cincinnati, Atlanta, and Tampa
Cross-posted from Marshall’s Musings, the author’s personal blog I recently went on a short vacation, driving down Highway 401 and Interstate...
By Sean Marshall -
LORINC: Tory needs to use new traffic data to fight congestion
To absolutely no one’s surprise, Mayor John Tory has emerged as the kind of leader who looks both ways — all puns and double entendres intended — before...
By John Lorinc -
The great Toronto bridge swap of 1928
The Canadian Pacific Railway had two 243-ton problems in early 1928. Its two newest and most powerful locomotives were due to be ready for the...
By Chris Bateman -
Remember the greenhouse gases
Toronto’s intense debate about transit and mobility has focused on access, cost and travel speed. Another important issue, one that’s often left out of...
By Shoshanna Saxe -
The slow and deadly evolution of Toronto’s crosswalks
Crossing the street in Toronto has been a potentially deadly challenge for almost a century. Until the 1950s, when the number of automobiles dramatically...
By Chris Bateman