Transit
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Merger is a GO, support the DRL, bikes on more buses
In this post, I touch upon three different pieces of news in the local transit scene. The biggest news so far this week in transit has been the announced...
By Sean Marshall -
Waterfront Toronto announces Queens Quay plan
UPDATE: There will be another opportunity for the public to comment and view the presentation materials tomorrow, Saturday, March 28 from 10:00 AM to...
By Sean Marshall -
Toronto’s Grand Trunk Railway — our 1856 link to Pearson airport
EDITORS NOTE: This essay on the Grand Trunk Railway first appeared in the Toronto Star’s Insight section on March 1. It is reprinted here with...
By Shawn Micallef -
TTC streetcar GPS tracker info has its limits
Some of our readers will have already read my post from early this morning (around 2am) when Spacing got word that the TTC’s GPS tracking system had...
By Matthew Blackett -
TTC streetcars goes GPS
Early this morning, Jerrold Litwinenko over at BlogTO broke the lid off of the TTC’s streetcar GPS tracker (in beta still) for mobile devices. He...
By Matthew Blackett -
Spacing Radio 002: What does a new provincial NDP leader mean for cities?
Spacing Radio headed to Hamilton last week for the Ontario NDP leadership convention to find out if a new leader will have any affect on how politicians...
By Spacing -
NDP Convention: the candidates on city issues
We’re (myself and Matt Blackett) at the Ontario NDP leadership convention in Hamilton, looking to see what the NDP candidates have to say about the...
By Dylan Reid -
The sorry state of Wilson Station
As I currently live in the upper reaches of North York, Wilson Station is my “home” station as I use it more than any other. Built for the...
By Sean Marshall -
Phoenix’s LRT and Part IV of where have our streetcars gone?
So far on this blog, I have discussed where some of Toronto’s PCC streetcars have gone after serving here. Five ex-TTC streetcars are in active...
By Sean Marshall -
Opening Day at the Toronto Coach Terminal, 1931
Motor coach terminal, Bay and Edward streets, Toronto, December 19, 1931. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 16, Series 71, Item 9041. When intercity bus...
By Jamie Bradburn -
How do Torontonians behave on transit?
Last week, Spacing contributing editor Christopher DeWolf, who is now stationed in Hong Kong, asked readers of Spacing Montreal their thoughts on how...
By Matthew Blackett -
Two pushed onto tracks at Dufferin
The Toronto Star is reporting that two people have been pushed onto the tracks at Dufferin station around 4:50pm. The subway re-opened shortly after 6...
By Matthew Blackett