Transit
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Detroit + Toronto symposium brings together urbanism experts across the Great Lakes
Whether the talk circled around the recent transit imbroglios plaguing Toronto, or the development challenges facing the financially-shaken city of...
By Josh Sherman -
LORINC: The War on LRT has begun
In the aftermath of a council debate that showcased some of the most venal and short-sighted political decision-making I’ve ever witnessed at City Hall, a...
By John Lorinc -
Province not onside with council’s Scarborough subway decision
Mayor Ford may be doing his end zone dance after a recent win at council, but it’s the Province who calls the game, and they’re not done playing...
By Glyn Bowerman -
Time to take the politics out of transit planning
Funding public transit is essential to a city’s economic growth. Doing this, however, requires the support of the general public and, often, the...
By Glyn Bowerman -
LORINC: Subway Nation rises again
Ever the shrewd tactician, Prime Minsiter Stephen Harper delivered one heck of a chess move yesterday when he and finance minister Jim Flaherty announced...
By John Lorinc -
York Region’s Rapidways: the good, the bad and the ugly
Viva Purple bus on new Highway 7 Rapidway I recently visited the first completed section of “Rapidway”, York Region Transit’s moniker...
By Sean Marshall -
LORINC: Wynne offers up Murray as Scarborough subway punching bag
If the latest skirmish over the Scarborough subway had a leitmotif, it was that of the minister as loose cannon. “Ontario’s transportation minister [Glen...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Union Station re-visited, part II
It’s sometimes said that surgeons and commercial pilots out-distance all other professions for sang froid and audacity. But if I had to make another...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Union Station, re-visited
As we walk carefully along a catwalk suspended high above the railway platforms at Union Station, David Swanson, Metrolinx’ senior construction supervisor...
By John Lorinc -
A brief history of Dufferin Street
Dufferin Street, looking north at Dupont, 1950. Note the wires for the new Annette Trolley Coach route on Dupont and the level crossing with the busy...
By Sean Marshall -
LORINC: The many faces of Giambrone
If I tried to catalogue the full inventory of Adam Giambrone’s prevarications in the Scarborough-Guildwood by-election, which will be decided on Thursday...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Taking new streetcar out for a spin
Riding the TTC’s new LRV on its maiden daylight voyage down Bathurst Street yesterday was a bit like taking a very showy sports car out for a spin. Heads...
By John Lorinc