Transit
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Cellphones, Ad Screens and TTC Service Updates
It is recognized by almost all that the TTC website is badly due for a redesign, and supposedly this will finally take place next year, perhaps bringing...
By Sean Marshall -
Fix the 501 Queen Streetcar Forum
The Queen’s crown is slipping. She’s becoming tardy and unreliable. Her subjects have lost faith and are leaving. The Queen streetcar used to...
By Dylan Reid -
2008 Budget In Transit
Transit activist Steve Munro has some very good updates for the 2008 TTC budget over at his website. It will be a very busy time for the TTC, as it not...
By Sean Marshall -
My stop is …
It’s great to see and hear the automated stop announcements proliferating rapidly through Toronto’s streetcars. Last week, for the first...
By Dylan Reid -
Lobbying for a registry: Exhibit B
The MFP scandal is Exhibit A in the case for a lobbyist registry at the City of Toronto. Exhibit B was presented yesterday by Councillor Norm Kelly, who...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
The Latest in Bad TTC Signage
Image courtesy of CDL.TO Over at Urban Toronto Forum, CDL.TO has documented the latest in TTC signage materials at St. Clair West Station. St. Clair West...
By Sean Marshall -
France’s rail strike
A strike in France seems like a contagious thing: with the rail services across the country going on strike recently, a number of other groups are walking...
By Matthew Blackett -
1984 TTC Commercial
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqCTh9zyE60[/youtube] Makes me want to visit, but not for the “rare beef.” The lengths some song...
By Shawn Micallef -
The invisible presence of parking
Three of us working on The Impervious P-lot congregated in Montreal to interview Gina Laurel, an architect working on a Communications PhD about water...
By Amber Yared -
Kipling and Islington Subway Renovations
In partnership with GO Transit, Mississauga Transit and the City of Toronto, the TTC is set to make drastic changes to both Kipling and Islington...
By Sean Marshall -
Joe Clark’s TTC Type and Tile Tour
Joe Clark pointing at what he considers the worst sign in the TTC system. Earlier today, Joe Clark hosted a tour of the messy and inconsistent TTC signage...
By Sean Marshall -
Bus shelters from Curitiba
I just stumbled across a few photos of transit shelter designs in Curitiba, Brazil. These seem to be used on an LRT line and would perfect for...
By Matthew Blackett