Transit
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SPACING INVESTIGATION: Timeline of the Scarborough Subway
For the last five months Spacing has been investigating the political maneuvering behind the decision to build the Scarborough subway. This is the...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Which John Tory will speak up when it comes to transit?
Earlier today, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the grand reveal of the Liberal government’s long-awaited strategy to fund GTA transit this week. In the...
By John Lorinc -
Brampton’s light rail blues
As we continue to debate the merits of subways and light rail here in Toronto, it’s worth noting that across southern Ontario, there’s...
By Sean Marshall -
LORINC: Chow dithers on downtown relief line
On his radio show last week, The Grid’s Ed Keenan asked Olivia Chow to clarify her position on the [insert euphemism here] Relief Line. Her answer: “I...
By John Lorinc -
Has the TTC finally found their wayfinding way?
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is currently testing changes to its subway signage. New signs have been rolled out at Bloor-Yonge Station, the...
By Sean Marshall -
LORINC: Mayoral candidates carve out positions on transit revenue tools
To tee up the surreal transit funding discussion that will take place at City Hall’s executive committee this week, here’s a quick recap on the...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Campaign Notes — Tory & Stintz are in & Doug Ford goes after Nick Kouvalis
Is “relief” the gravy metaphor for the 2014 race? Near the top of John Tory’s slickly designed website, it says the candidate “vows to build relief line....
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Why aren’t we bundling transit into the Gardiner removal decision?
With the sort of discretion normally reserved for wait staff and funeral directors, Waterfront Toronto’s (WT) board very quietly released its...
By John Lorinc -
Artists on the Underground: movie and panel discussion
I’ll be part of a panel discussion on Saturday night after a showing of the movie “Artists on the Underground” – a documentary...
By Dylan Reid -
The secret Toronto airport express bus
Last November, my father and I to took the bus to the airport. At the regular TTC fare of $3 a ride, taking the Bloor-Danforth line to Kipling then...
By Daniel Rotsztain -
LORINC: What kind of transit plan will Tory present?
If you’ll pardon the cliché, that great sucking sound we’re all hearing these days is coming from John Tory’s almost-a-campaign team, the members of which...
By John Lorinc -
A transportation minister and a city planner walk into a bar
In the bustling Foxes Den pub on Bay St., a hurricane of wait staff wielding large, clattering plates of piping hot et cetera, were swirling from kitchen...
By Glyn Bowerman