Category Archives: Jane LRT

OneCity Plan Reviewed

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Steve

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 →

Posted in A Grand Plan, Don Mills LRT, Eglinton LRT, Fantasy, Finance, Finch West LRT, Jane LRT, Kingston Road, Scarborough RT/LRT, Scarborough-Malvern LRT, Sheppard East LRT, Sheppard Subway, Spadina Subway, St. Clair Car, Subways, Transit, Waterfront, Yonge Subway Extension | 65 Comments

“One City” To Serve Them All

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Steve

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 →

Posted in A Grand Plan, Don Mills LRT, Eglinton LRT, Fantasy, Finance, Finch West LRT, Jane LRT, Kingston Road, Scarborough RT/LRT, Scarborough-Malvern LRT, Sheppard East LRT, Sheppard Subway, Subways, Transit, Waterfront, Yonge Subway Extension | 57 Comments

A Grand Plan: 2011 Edition

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Steve

Back in the early days of this blog, I wrote a long paper about the role of transit and what a truly regional plan would look like.  To avoid extensively quoting myself, I suggest that any newcomers to this site … Continue reading →

Posted in A Grand Plan, Beyond 416, Don Mills LRT, Eglinton LRT, Fares & Fare Collection, Finance, Finch West LRT, GO Transit, Jane LRT, Scarborough RT/LRT, Scarborough-Malvern LRT, Sheppard East LRT, Subways, Transit, Waterfront, York Region | 88 Comments

A Response to “Save Our Subways”

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Steve

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 →

Posted in A Grand Plan, Don Mills LRT, Eglinton LRT, Finch West LRT, GO Transit, Jane LRT, Scarborough RT/LRT, Scarborough-Malvern LRT, Sheppard East LRT, Spadina Subway, Transit | 42 Comments

Transit City Revisited (Part III, Updated)

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Steve

(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 →

Posted in A Grand Plan, Don Mills LRT, Eglinton LRT, GO Transit, Jane LRT, Kingston Road, Scarborough-Malvern LRT, Spadina Subway, Subways, Transit, Union Station, Waterfront, York Region | 34 Comments

Transit City Revisited (Part I)

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Steve

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 →

Posted in A Grand Plan, Don Mills LRT, Eglinton LRT, Finch West LRT, Jane LRT, Scarborough RT/LRT, Scarborough-Malvern LRT, Sheppard East LRT, Transit, Waterfront | 4 Comments

Transit City December 2009 Update (Part 2)

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Steve

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.

Posted in Don Mills LRT, Finch West LRT, Jane LRT, Scarborough RT/LRT, Scarborough-Malvern LRT, Sheppard East LRT, Transit, Waterfront | 34 Comments

Transit City Status Update

Posted on February 14, 2009 by Steve

This month’s TTC agenda includes a long update on the status of the Transit City plans.  I will not attempt to précis this report, but will touch on points of particular interest. Funding is in place to allow continued work … Continue reading →

Posted in A Grand Plan, Don Mills LRT, Eglinton LRT, Finch West LRT, Jane LRT, Scarborough RT/LRT, Scarborough-Malvern LRT, Sheppard East LRT, Transit, Waterfront | 26 Comments

Transit City — The Movie

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Steve

Today’s TTC meeting brought us an update on the various parts of the Transit City plan.  You can read the full report yourself, and there is a quick review of the status of various lines and studies below. Meanwhile, the … Continue reading →

Posted in A Grand Plan, Don Mills LRT, Eglinton LRT, Finch West LRT, Jane LRT, New Streetcars, Scarborough RT/LRT, Scarborough-Malvern LRT, Sheppard East LRT, Transit | 14 Comments

Jane/Eglinton LRT Open House

Posted on September 14, 2008 by Steve

Lately I have been distracted by other events, and neglected to post information about the Jane LRT Environmental Assessment.  The display panels from the open houses can be found on the project website.  Note that three linked “display drawings” showing the detailed … Continue reading →

Posted in Eglinton LRT, Jane LRT, Transit | 32 Comments