Transit
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Monday’s Headlines
• Threat of chunks of ice falling from CN Tower closes area [ National Post ] • Cities seek transit cash [ Toronto Star ] • Candy Land...
By Julie Yamin -
Subway movies?
Someone recently told me about a Hungarian movie called Kontrol, which is set in and is all about people who work in the Budapest subway system. It made...
By Dylan Reid -
Spadina subway extension clears funding hurdle
The Toronto Star is announcing on its front page that a final $697 million from the federal government has sealed the Spadina Subway Extension deal (see...
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Got your Giambroney?
UPDATE: There is blogger controversy on the origins of the Giambroney. Check out the comments section, and this Torontoist post. – – –...
By Julie Yamin -
Friday Headlines
• Stonewalled at landfill gate, councillors still want details [ Toronto Star ] • Ontario 2007 budget date set [ cbc ] • Asian long-horned...
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TTC addresses cleanliness issues at stations?
AM640 Toronto is running a report stating that the Toronto Transit Commission’s record of cleanliness at its subway stations is improving, although...
By James Bow -
Help Build a Transit City Workshop
The Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) is currently in the midst of a series of community workshops centred on the City/TTC’s Transit City plan...
By Craig Cal -
TORONTO SUMMIT: Making Toronto the greenest of them all
Spacing has Julie Yamin reporting from the two-day Toronto Summit conference. – – – – – – – – – Many...
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Where have our streetcars gone?
It has been a bit of a mystery to me why the TTC (and Toronto for that matter) doesn’t take its transit history as seriously as it should. London...
By Sean Marshall -
Railfans Delight: Lower Bay diversion brings out cameras
Less than twenty-four hours after the TTC began diverting Bloor-Danforth subway trains through Lower Bay and Museum stations, railfans have posted a...
By James Bow -
The waste land of King Station, morning rush hour
King station after the morning rush hour. See it larger. Someone on Sam Javanrouh’s blog wrote: “Recycle, they say. Wouldn’t it be...
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Better than Phil Collins in the Paris subway
Somewhere on the Paris subway.
By Matthew Blackett