{"id":71068,"date":"2025-12-01T08:27:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=71068"},"modified":"2025-12-01T08:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:27:18","slug":"podcast-episode-91-talking-transit-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2025\/12\/01\/podcast-episode-91-talking-transit-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Episode 91, Talking Transit 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year has been one of major change. But what doesn\u2019t change here is talking about transit. It\u2019s the return of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/author\/patriciaburkewood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/author\/patriciaburkewood\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1764681370178000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0BPLrEOXZcQnR-bdsCE__6\">Tricia Wood<\/a>\u00a0(York University urban geography professor and\u00a0<em>Spacing<\/em>\u00a0contributor) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GraphicMatt?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/x.com\/GraphicMatt?ref_src%3Dtwsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Eauthor&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1764681370178000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2PpZ5R7KjuHMsRnO4ILOm5\">Matt Elliott<\/a>(<em>Toronto Star<\/em>\u00a0columnist and publisher of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cityhallwatcher.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/cityhallwatcher.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1764681370178000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0TzyIdcdMaVx1XbyEAJbXg\">City Hall Watcher newsletter<\/a>). They help us unpack the state of public transportation in Toronto and the surrounding region, warts and all.<\/p>\n<p>We talk about restoring faith in the TTC, the battle of competing transit projects, the Federal budget, and why cars still take priority over transit in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the podcast on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/spacing-radio\/id1124077274\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7j3L15Vo36v6MJGXask9HG\">Spotify<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacingradio\">SoundCloud<\/a>, or follow our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/users\/soundcloud:users:233628346\/sounds.rss\">RSS feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2222049107&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=true&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Spacing Radio\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacingradio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spacing Radio<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Episode 91: Talking Transit 2025\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacingradio\/episode-91-talking-transit-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Episode 91: Talking Transit 2025<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year has been one of major change. 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They help us unpack the state of public transportation in Toronto and the surrounding region, warts and all.<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2025\/12\/01\/podcast-episode-91-talking-transit-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;PODCAST: Episode 91, Talking Transit 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8312,"featured_media":71069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,22369,22198,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infrastructure","category-pandemic","category-podcast","category-traffic","category-transit"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PODCAST: Episode 91, Talking Transit 2025 - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2025\/12\/01\/podcast-episode-91-talking-transit-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PODCAST: Episode 91, Talking Transit 2025 - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This year has been one of major change. 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