{"id":2547,"date":"2007-12-05T11:37:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T15:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2007-12-06T00:30:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T04:30:22","slug":"give-the-gtta-a-better-name-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/12\/05\/give-the-gtta-a-better-name-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Give the GTTA a Better Name Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/6\/9389257_076e27fc73_o.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metrolinx.com\/_layouts\/images\/gtta\/metrolinx-logo-s3.gif\" style=\"width: 370px; height: 116px\" height=\"116\" width=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Spacing Toronto contributor Sean Marshall <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=2543\">posted the other day<\/a>, the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority (GTTA) has rebranded itself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolinx.com\/default.aspx\">Metrolinx<\/a>. The comment section of that post did not yield one positive response for our readers and also included a number of suggested new names.<\/p>\n<p>So, we&#8217;ve taken it upon ourselves to host a little contest: <strong>leave your suggested names for the GTTA in the comment section.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spacing editors will narrow the list down and have our readers vote on a name on Friday. We&#8217;ll give a set of subway buttons to the reader who first made the winning name suggestion.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/photojunkie.ca\">Rannie Turnigan<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Spacing Toronto contributor Sean Marshall posted the other day, the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority (GTTA) has rebranded itself Metrolinx. The comment section of that post did not yield one positive response for our readers and also included a number of suggested new names. 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