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Headlines worth following
Here are a few headlines worth following today, and I’d love to hear your comments about: The City of Toronto Act: the new law passed yesterday at...
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New iPod skin design: Tokyo subway map
More ideas for potential TTC merchandise: iPod skin of the subway system. Over at GelaSkins, you can buy an ultra-thin, high-grade vinyl skin of the Tokyo...
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SPACING: Beware the Ides of Merch?
One of Spacing’s on-going beefs with the TTC is how poor of a job it does of marketing itself. Once and a while they will do something that we may...
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Howard to quit? Ducharme says cars rule road
This TTC fiasco story won’t end soon, it looks like — Moscoe may step down from the the TTC Chair position. From Jeff Gray in the Globe and...
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We missed Dump the Pump Day
They take their cars and gas prices seriously south of the border, but transit systems across the US took part in a national Dump The Pump Day yesterday...
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Arts on Track, Opera House, countdown lights
The Toronto Community Foundation announced this morning, “significant new funding, achieving a major milestone in its “Arts On Track†initiative...
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Is it time for Moscoe to step down, too?
UPDATE: The TTC Commission promptly asked Rick Ducharme to clean his desk out today, not on Nov. 30th as the former-GM had suggested in his resignation...
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TTC General Manager to quit
If the last 10 days at the TTC haven’t been weird enough, the transit system’s GM Rick Ducharme is quitting as of November 30th citing...
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Check out new subway trains starting today
It looks like the TTC and its workers are in some tense talks which could lead to another walkout, The Star is reporting. You can ignore these...
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Commuting by Transit in the ‘Burbs
The Star published a very interesting story about the extraordinarily long transit commutes factory workers (mostly immigrant) have to make between areas...
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TTC wildcat strike again? Don’t. You. Dare.
CablePulse 24 has issued a highly speculative report suggesting that the City of Toronto may be preparing for another wildcat strike tomorrow [link to...
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Interesting City Bits
Here are a few delighful bits of the city to watch out for on summer walks. Subway Mural I found this great mural of a subway train along Richmond Street...
By Dylan Reid