Transit
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Update: Minimum service standards introduced
UPDATE: The TTC has just issued a press release heralding the surface route service improvements coming this Sunday. The TTC website now has the details...
By Sean Marshall -
Removing pole pollution
Thanks to a City of Toronto project to reduce pole pollution, Dundas Street West is looking a little less cluttered these days. As part of the redesign of...
By Megan Hall -
TTC subway map update: Back from the drawing board
The May 2008 version of the subway map. A brief update of an article first posted here in June: New subway maps dated September 2008 have just been...
By Sean Marshall -
Transit City marketing
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoecnwRr1oA[/youtube] The folks at the TTC have embarked on a major marketing campaign in an effort to sell...
By Patricia Simoes -
City budget moves on TTC, roads and cycling
At a noon hour budget committee meeting, the City of Toronto publicly launched its capital budget approval process. While the biggest dollar figures...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
iPhone meets Red Rocket
Five years ago when I was a resident at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab we would brainstorm possible new media...
By Shawn Micallef -
Trying to understand road pricing
Last week I had a chance to talk with Marty Collier from Healthy Transport Consulting about the upcoming Transportation Futures: Ontario’s inaugural...
By Mike Bulko -
Dufferin Station modernization open house on Wednesday
The TTC is holding an open house tomorrow night for the public to speak with TTC staff about the modernization of Dufferin station. Have your say and let...
By Matthew Blackett -
A tried and true alternate bus technology
In Saturday’s Headlines, Monica Warzecha posted a link to a Toronto Star article on the TTC’s problems with its hybrid diesel-electric bus...
By Sean Marshall -
Metrolinx Regional Transportation Plan consultation
Metrolinx, the provincial agency charged with sorting out the Greater Toronto Area’s transportation woes, has come out with a draft Regional...
By Dylan Reid -
TTC and union come to 3-year agreement
This little piece of news just came screaming across Spacing’s desk: the TTC and union workers have reached a deal, five full months after transit...
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Your walls can look like a subway platform
Toronto keeps producing interesting homages to our public transit heritage despite the TTC’s total lack of appreciation (or attention)...
By Matthew Blackett