Transit
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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...
By Spacing -
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 -
Presto technology sold to Washington, D.C. raises questions
Accenture, the $28 billion private contractor building the Presto electronic fare network, last week won a contract to construct a similar system for...
By John Lorinc -
Deadline for Spacing’s Transit Poster Contest extended!
WHAT: Spacing’s Transit Poster Contest WHEN: Deadline is extended to Friday, January 31st, 2014 COST: Free! FACEBOOK: RSVP to our event to get...
By Spacing -
LORINC: From the Big Move to the Big Stall
Let me say this up front: I have enormous respect for Anne Golden and Paul Bedford. They both understand cities, and have progressive visions of what this...
By John Lorinc -
Undergrad commuter chronicles — a University of Toronto student’s movement through the city
It’s crunch time for thousands of Toronto’s students. A good proportion of these students are also commuters — students who wander through...
By Sheraz Khan -
Rolling Out: The future of Toronto’s Bixi bikes
While city hall, last month, was dominated by one man’s almost unbelievable personal implosion, the business of Toronto is moving ahead… and...
By Glyn Bowerman