Transit
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Friday Headlines
• Stonewalled at landfill gate, councillors still want details [ Toronto Star ] • Ontario 2007 budget date set [ cbc ] • Asian long-horned...
By Julie Yamin -
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...
By Julie Yamin -
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...
By Matthew Blackett -
Better than Phil Collins in the Paris subway
Somewhere on the Paris subway.
By Matthew Blackett -
Rick Mercer drives a TTC streetcar
In today’s Rick Mercer Report, Mercer does a feature on the TTC where he learns to drive a TTC streetcar, subway and bus. It’s fun, especially...
By Dylan Reid -
Is Toronto coming around on road pricing?
It was exciting to read today that Mayor Miller is sending councillor Brian Ashton to London to study congestion charges. If you remember back in the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Monday afternoon links
On Sunday, I wanted to catch the 4:43am ride on the newly opened section of the St Clair right-of-way (ROW) but I came down with a serious flu bug...
By Matthew Blackett -
Passing by Lower Bay
For the next six weekends, starting next Saturday, riders on the Bloor-Danforth line will have to transfer trains at Museum station because Bay station is...
By Matthew Blackett