Greater Toronto and Golden Horseshoe area media report on public transit issues today.

Greater Toronto Area

• All Fired Up In The Big Smoke post, “Street Carnag-Oh! I Get It!”, here.
• BlogTO post, “The Toronto airport link will be epic, apparently”, here.
• BlogTO post, “Transit App is voted best TTC app”, here.
• Brampton Guardian article, “Metrolinx acquires CN station in Brampton”, here.
• Brampton Guardian article, “All-day, two-way GO? Not yet, says new station owner”, here.
• Brampton Guardian article, “Trinity Common Transit Terminal will close temporarily”, here.
• Brampton Guardian article, “New in town? Take a bus tour”, here.
• Caledon Citizen article, “Possible GO rail determines Bolton expansion plans”, here.
• CityNews Toronto report, “Concerns about pedestrian safety raised over Eglinton LRT construction”, here.
• CityNews Toronto report, “Ford, Byford clash over subway tunnel-boring machines”, here.
• Global News Toronto report, “TTC investigating after bus runs red light, swerves to avoid pedestrian”, here.
• Globe and Mail article, “Video shows TTC bus running red light, narrowly missing pedestrian; TTC investigates”, here.
• Globe and Mail article, “Rob Ford, TTC CEO in conflict over sale of tunnel machines”, here.
• Globe and Mail article, “Metrolinx employees to get pay hike under pre-election deal”, here.
• Globe and Mail column, “Toronto’s summertime roadwork fest the start of a noisier — but sounder — future”, here.
• Globe and Mail article, “Toronto board of trade president Carol Wilding leaving for new job”, here.
• Globe and Mail article, “The case against asbestos: Accidental exposure is entirely preventable”, here.
• The IFP ([Georgetown] Independent and Free Press) article, “Roads play a role”, here.
• The IFP ([Georgetown] Independent and Free Press) article, “Acton man charged with indecent act on GO bus”, here.
• InsideHalton.com article, “Completion of Burlington GO Station upgrades pushed to spring 2015”, here.
• InsideHalton.com article, “Burlington City Hall notebook for June 30”, here.
• InsideToronto.com article, “Use Spadina tunnel-boring machines for Scarborough subway, says Mayor Ford”, here.
• InsideToronto.com article, “Leslie and Commissioners intersection closed to one lane”, here.
• InsideToronto.com article, “Eastern and Leslie closure postponed until further notice”, here.
• Metro Toronto’s Ford for Toronto post, “Derailing old arguments for getting rid of streetcars”, here.
• Mississauga News article, “BRT behind schedule and over budget”, here.
• National Post article, “Toronto waiting for somebody — anybody — to come up with a good idea to improve streetcar service”, here.
• National Post graphic, “Toronto’s streetcar blues”, here.
• National Post article, “Rob Ford says transit tunnel-boring machines should be reused instead of sold for less than a quarter their cost”, here.
• National Post article, “Intersection where 7-year-old was killed filled with problems that could spur more accidents, expert says”, here.
• Ride This Crazy Train post, “Crime of opportunity at Burlington GO Station”, here.
• Ride This Crazy Train post, “Transit in Toronto needs an expert. Not Rob Ford”, here.
• Ride This Crazy Train post, “Parenting — signs you’ve done it wrong”, here.
• Ride This Crazy Train post, “This your car? It is?! Oh you mad that it’s on the Internet? Too bad. You don’t own the parking lot”, here.
• Ride This Crazy Train post, “Why we don’t licence the seeing-impaired”, here.
• Ride This Crazy Train post, “You stay classy, Whitby - I’m fingering daytrippers for this one”, here.
• Spacing Toronto post, “Remembering the Rogers Road streetcar”, here.
• Torontoist post, “Transportation Minister Stephen Del Duca: It’s Time for Building, Not Planning”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “Toronto transit experts: ‘Surface subways’ only part of the solution”, here.
• Toronto Star column, “Transit’s no trauma where I come from”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “TTC investigates after bus caught on video nearly hitting pedestrian”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “TTC tunnel-boring machine deal falls through”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “Mayor Rob Ford wants to keep old subway tunnel machines”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “Teen killed by GO Train had passion for scooters”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “City hall inundated with complaints over Ford Fest”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “Carol Wilding to leave Toronto Board of Trade”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “TTC CEO shocked at red-light runner video”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “TTC selling tunnel-boring machines ‘doesn’t make sense’: Ford”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “Metrolinx pay hike needs GO fare increase: PCs”, here.
• Toronto Sun editorial, “Wynne’s pay freeze is a mirage”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “High-tech hub hopes to help Toronto traffic”, here.

Elsewhere in the Greater Golden Horseshoe

• Guelph Mercury article, “Guelph Transit lockout will be long and become election issue, union suggests”, here.
• Hamilton Spectator article, “LRT fans blitz politicians ahead of crucial meeting”, here.
• Hamilton Spectator column, “Bratina holds steady on LRT meeting with new minister”, here.
• Raise the Hammer post, “Mayor Replying to Letters of Support for LRT”, here.
• Raise the Hammer post, “Show Your Support for LRT”, here.