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How Can Transit Serve a Revived Ontario Place? 27 Jul 2012 | 01:10 am
Today a Ministerial Advisory Committee headed by former Ontario PC leader John Tory released its analysis and recommendations for the future of Ontario Place. For those readers who are not familiar ...
How Long Will Rebuilding The SRT Take? 25 Jul 2012 | 02:02 am
When OneCity was announced with much, if short-lived, fanfare back in June, the centrepiece of the scheme was a proposal for a Scarborough Subway. Toronto could have a full-blown subway to the heart ...
The Fate of OneCity (Updated) 19 Jul 2012 | 03:00 pm
Several postmortems have appeared on blogs about the supposed death of OneCity and what might follow: Updated July 19, 2012 at 7:00 am: A transit debate full of sound and fury, signifying … some...
Spadina Reconstruction News (Updated July 18, 2012) 19 Jul 2012 | 07:00 am
This article will be used to track the progress of the reconstruction of Spadina Avenue. Updated July 18, 2012 at 11:00pm Most of the concrete has been placed for the main part of the intersecti...
The Missing Half of OneCity 5 Jul 2012 | 03:12 am
Last week brought the excitement of the OneCity network announcement, followed by mildly supportive words from Queen’s Park and its agency Metrolinx, followed in turn by rather stronger provincial den...
TTC Meeting Wrapup: June 29, 2012 (Updated) 4 Jul 2012 | 01:00 am
Updated July 3, 2012 at 5:00 pm: The TTC has clarified the issue of the number of locations for debit card facilities. “60″ refers to the number of locations to be done in 2012, with a further 23 in...
OneCity Plan Reviewed 29 Jun 2012 | 12:26 am
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...
Metrolinx Board Meeting, June 2012 27 Jun 2012 | 08:01 am
The Metrolinx Board met on June 21 with a full agenda. As is unfortunately the case with this quasi-public board, the fatter the agenda, the less time is spent on actual discussion of the material in...
“One City” To Serve Them All 27 Jun 2012 | 06:14 am
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 ...
Service Changes Effective July 29, 2012 26 Jun 2012 | 02:56 pm
Mid-summer is a quiet time for service changes, but a few are planned for the end of July. Major changes will come in September with the combined effect of the return to winter schedules and the impl...
