Transit
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The City starts to plan for TTC strike
The City of Toronto issued a press release outlining a contingency plan in the case of a TTC strike starting on April 1 (does anyone find any irony of the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Let’s build the Bathurst Bridge Toronto deserves
There is going to be a new bridge in town, and Toronto has a rare opportunity to build something great because the Bathurst Street Bridge is about to...
By Shawn Micallef -
TTC strike date pushed back
According to the Toronto Star: The union is in a legal strike position at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, but Kinnear said a strike now wouldn’t likely happen...
By Matthew Blackett -
POLL: Should the TTC be allowed to strike?
As Toronto moves closer to a transit strike next week (or some kind of “job action”), residents who rely on the TTC are holding their breath...
By Matthew Blackett -
Budget 2008: Maybe Next Year
Toronto is mentioned 35 times in the 2008 provincial budget that was tabled this afternoon. Tellingly, however, seven of those 35 Torontos are in the...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Ride the rainbow of Bloor-Danforth
Since there has been a lot of discussion in the post just below about preserving the TTC’s subway tiles, I thought it would be a good time to post a...
By Matthew Blackett -
TTC station heritage threatened
Accessibility activist and TTC signage guru Joe Clark has informed Spacing about a new TTC plan for the “diversification” of 63 of the 69...
By Sean Marshall -
‘City’s loss is TTC’s gain’
Brad Ross has been the City of Toronto’s clear, concise and witty mouthpiece for several years and he’ll soon be moving onward and upward...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Scarborough Students Vote: Do U U-Pass?
Starting tomorrow, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus students will put conventional wisdom to the test as they go to the polls to say Yes or No to...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
MTA trip planner wins award
As we wait for (and for some, worry about) work on the TTC’s web trip planner to start and finish, it might be useful to peek at this post on the...
By Shawn Micallef -
Streetcars and LRT: Streetcar-oriented development
Mimico, one of Toronto’s outer streetcar suburbs As Toronto begins detailed planning and consultations for Transit City, it is also looking to...
By Sean Marshall -
CBC, 1954: “Toronto’s got itself a subway!”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxRRfHLq7Us[/youtube] The CBC gives us seven minutes of vintage Toronto during the construction of Canada’s...
By Matthew Blackett