Transit
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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 -
LORINC: deBaeremaeker fans urban-suburban divide
After his over-the-top outburst at the end of council’s budgapalooza, I realized I had reached my lifetime dose of Councillor Glenn de Baeremaeker’s...
By John Lorinc -
Spacing’s Transit Poster Contest deadline on Friday!
WHAT: Spacing’s Transit Poster Contest WHEN: Deadline is extended to Friday, January 31st, 2014 COST: Free! FACEBOOK: RSVP to our event to get...
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TTC looking to cut bus and streetcar stops, mulls time-based transfers
At the next Toronto Transit Commission meeting on January 28, staff will present a report [PDF] that may affect the locations of bus and streetcar stops...
By Sean Marshall -
LORINC: Metrolinx and Accenture deny Presto-DC allegations
Metrolinx officials last week strongly denied that Accenture had leveraged its $700 million-plus Presto contract to win a $184 million/six-year deal for a...
By John Lorinc