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What’s This Photo Doing on Metrolinx’ Website? (Updated)
Updated January 29, 2013 at 1:45pm: Metrolinx’ response has been added at the end of this article. A discussion has been running in the comment thread on another article about one of the photos used on the Metrolinx site. The … Continue reading
Posted in A Grand Plan, Fantasy, Transit
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OneCity Plan Reviewed
The OneCity plan has much to recommend it even though in the details it is far from perfect. The funding scheme requires Queen’s Park to modify the handling of assessment value changes, and they are already cool to this scheme. … Continue reading
“One City” To Serve Them All
Updated June 27 at 5:20pm: I have written a political analysis of today’s announcement for the Torontoist website that will probably go live tomorrow morning. A line-by-line review of the plan will go up here later the same day. TTC … Continue reading
So You Just Bought A Subway Station!
Let me be the first to congratulate you on buying the naming rights to one of our fine subway stations! You’re probably wondering if there are extras in the contract, things you should know about your new home. We’re sorry … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Finance, Transit
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Rob Ford’s Designs on Metrolinx (Update 2)
Updated 9:45am: Environmentalists scoffed at plans to convert rail corridors to roadways. “Electrification of GO was our big chance to show the world just how green a transit system could be”, said Jamie Kirkpatrick of the Toronto Environmental Alliance. Trains … Continue reading
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Sunlight Park Carhouse?
The TTC has a report on its Supplementary Agenda for the June 2 meeting regarding the Unilever property at the foot of Broadview as a possible carhouse site. During the initial search for new carhouse and maintenance sites, this property … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, New Streetcars, Transit
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The SRT As It Might Have Been
John F. Bromley sent me a photo of a new LRT line running through a commercial development. Look familiar? Can you say Scarborough Town Centre? The photo is from June 1972. The cars were the first in Europe to be … Continue reading
Posted in A Grand Plan, Fantasy, Scarborough RT/LRT, Transit
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Some Days, Only A Swan Boat Will Do
In our continuing efforts to bring vital news of the flexibility of modern transit technology to readers’ attention, we offer this view of a Swan Boat in active service in Rio. How people can propose anything else for Toronto is utterly … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Transit
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“Admiral Adam” launches Amphibious City
[This article is cross-posted with spacing] Spacing exclusive – we have learned that the Toronto Transit Commission will announce a major service increase. Smarting from recent customer service issues including higher fares, sleeping employees, and rush hour service cuts, the TTC … Continue reading
Posted in A Grand Plan, Fantasy, Transit
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Divine Intervention May, Or May Not, Affect Service
The Atheist Bus Campaign reports that the TTC has approved the text of advertisements suggesting that “There’s Probably No God”. This campaign has stirred controversy in the U.K. where it first appeared, but at last report the island kingdom has … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Transit
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