Transit
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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 -
Amazing drawings from 1949 of TTC subway construction
While plowing through thousands of images in the City of Toronto’s archive database I came across a series of illustrations by John DeRinzy that...
By Matthew Blackett -
LORINC: Why City Council’s Scarborough subway is another undecision
Okay, so now what? After last week’s multi-act debacle, the question hovering over Toronto city council’s Scarborough subway gamble is the obvious one...
By John Lorinc -
“Advice for the Living” by Art in Transit
Advice for the living is a project launched by Art in Transit, created by Labspace Studio and produced in association with Pattison Onestop. As described...
By Stephen Brophy -
LORINC: No more clarity needed on transit from city hall
On the eve of council’s debate over the foolish plan to tear up the City’s $8.7 billion deal with Metrolinx, I’d like to dredge up a detail from recent...
By John Lorinc