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Metrolinx June 2010 Meeting Preview
The Metrolinx Board will meet on June 29. This article is a preview of the agenda, and I will report on the meeting itself later in the week.
Furious George Has A Plan (Update 2)
Updated June 8, 2010 at 11:00 pm: The Smitherman campaign has posted a backgrounder to his transportation plan which has been updated to reflect the funding of inflation by Queen’s Park. In a previous update, I noted that there was a … Continue reading
Transit City: Half a Loaf? (Update 4)
Today, May 17, 2010, Metrolinx CEO Rob Prichard addressed the Toronto Board of Trade with an overview of plans for Transit City projects. The presentation slides are available on the Metrolinx website. The final transcript version of the accompanying speech … Continue reading
Saving Transit City
Just over two weeks ago, the wheels came off Transit City and many more plans for new transit routes in the GTA. Queen’s Park, feeling poorly after bailing out the auto industry and promissing tidy sums for non-transit portfolios, decided … Continue reading
A Response to “Save Our Subways”
For some time, I have stayed away from the “Save Our Subways” dialogue over on UrbanToronto in part because Transit City and related issues are presented as being “Steve Munro’s” plan (there’s even a poll that just went up on that … Continue reading
Transit City Revisited (Part III, Updated)
(Updated at 3:00 pm, February 1. I omitted a section on the proposed Sheppard subway extensions to Downsview and to Scarborough Town Centre. This has been added.) In this, the final installment of my review of Transit City, I will look at … Continue reading
Transit City Revisited (Part II)
In the first part of this article, I looked at the origins of Transit City. Here, I will turn to that plan’s various components and to other transit schemes that have some or all of their funding in place.
Transit City Revisited (Part I)
Transit City and transit in general are much in the political news thanks to one mayoral candidate’s declaration that there would be a moratorium on additional routes among other changes at the TTC. Christopher Hume’s column in the Star gives an … Continue reading
Transit City December 2009 Update (Part 3) (Revised)
Revised December 29 at 12:15 am: The section on the Finch LRT has been moved to the end and expanded to clarify an alternate proposal for the underground connection between the Yonge subway and the LRT station. In the two … Continue reading
Transit City December 2009 Update (Part 2)
Part 1 of this article reviewed recent approvals and designs for the Eglinton LRT. In part 2, I will turn to the remaining Transit City routes. The main article follows the break below.