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Spacing co-presents: Who Pays for Regional Transportation?
WHAT: Innovation Talk: Who Pays for Regional Transportation? WHEN: Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 7-9pm WHERE: BMO Atrium, Evergreen Brick Works The second...
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LORINC: Is Olivia Chow missing the train?
Yesterday morning, Toronto Region Board of Trade (BoT) president Carol Wilding gave every politician in southern Ontario a veritable prairie of leeway by...
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What are your thoughts on Board of Trade’s transit revenue tools?
The Toronto Region Board of Trade has come out with a proposal which recommends a variety of ways to fund Metrolinx’s Big Move transit projects. You...
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Follow John Lorinc as Board of Trade announces transit funding plan
EDITOR’S NOTE: Follow Spacing senior editor John Lorinc on Twitter as he covers the Toronto Region Board of Trade’s event announcing their...
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A few short video clips of TTC’s new streetcar
This morning, I grudgingly dragged myself out of bed at 2:30am to watch and film the new streetcar as it made its way down and up Bathurst. I decided to...
By Matthew Blackett -
Turning the subway into a digital bookmobile
Ever wish you had something to read on the subway, other than that crumpled free commuter newspaper on the floor? Three students at the Miami Ad...
By Brian Anders -
STREET SCENE: Corner Transit
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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TTC promises improvement with new Customer Charter
At the crowded intersection of Bloor-Yonge southbound mezzanine, a new addition to the TTC was unleashed. As the minutes passed by, Torontoians gathered...
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New TTC bus stops sighted
New bus stop signs are currently being installed on the 94 Wellesley bus route, a trial of the TTC’s new wayfinding strategy. These new signs, while...
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Subway delayed, new tramway hits Casablanca
Casablanca has unveiled a new tramway system that connects the east and west ends of the city through the downtown core. The $1.6 billion project has seen...
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LORINC: The dueling plans for the Downtown Relief Line
Here’s a quirky coincidence: The future of the Downtown Relief Line (DRL) rests, at the moment, in the hands of six women — three politicians and three...
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10 questions to ask a transit planner
Cities are full of armchair transit planners — so much so, in fact, that the practice is derisively known as “drawing lines on a map.” But it’s far more...
By Spacing