Greater Toronto and Golden Horseshoe area media report on public transit issues today.
Greater Toronto Area
- All Fired Up In The Big Smoke post, “Let’s Just Stop Pretending”, here.
- All Fired Up In The Big Smoke post, “Another Gardiner East Rethink”, here.
- All Fired Up In The Big Smoke post, “The Meddling Public Sector”, here.
- AppleInsider post, “Inside iOS9: Apple Maps gains transit directions for buses, trains, subways, more”, here.
- BlogTO post, “5 key Toronto issues at stake in the federal election”, here.
- BlogTO post, “A snapshot of Danforth and Broadview in the 1910s”, here.
- BlogTO post, “A snapshot of King and John in the 1970s and 1980s”, here.
- BlogTO post, “A snapshot of King and Bay in the 1970s”, here.
- BlogTO post, “A snapshot of Yonge and Bloor in the 1960s”, here.
- BlogTO post, “Photo of the Day: The Long Haul”, here.
- BlogTO post, “What’s the worst street for traffic in Toronto?”, here.
- BlogTO post, “10 things you just don’t do on the TTC”, here.
- BlogTO post, “What Toronto’s highways would look like as a TTC map”, here.
- Canadian Press article (from the Huffington Post Canada website), “Trudeau Takes Infrastructure Pitch to Richmond Hill Battleground”, here.
- Construction Index post, “Ontario starts tender process for Toronto light rail”, here.
- Huffington Post Canada post, “GO Service [Resumed] After Suspicious Package Probe at Exhibition Station”, here.
- MacRumors post, “Inside iOS9: Apple Maps Gains Transit Mode and Nearby Search”, here.
- NetNewsLedger post, “TTC Celebrates Car Number 4410 Streetcar Entering Service”, here.
- RailwayTechnology.com post, “Canada’s Metrolinx orders Alstom computer-based integrated control system”, here.
- Ride This Crazy Train post, “About that GO train to Bowmanville”, here.
- Ride This Crazy Train post, “How’s the Bay Concourse coming along?”, here.
- Ride This Crazy Train post, “No word on condition of GO bus driver who crashed into Bay Street platform”, here.
- Ride This Crazy Train post, “GO promises to make route 12 improvements a priority”, here.
- Ride This Crazy Train post, “Back to school at TCT academy”, here.
- Ride This Crazy Train post, “Boy, yesterday sure was fun”, here.
- Ride This Crazy Train post, “Um, yeaaaah, no”, here.
- Ride This Crazy Train post, “Sorry, did you say something about ‘no smoking’?”, here.
- Ride This Crazy Train post, “You got 36 minutes to remove your car!”, here
- Ride This Crazy Train post, “More coffee comes to Union Station”, here.
- Spacing Toronto post, “Forgotten TTC architecture a reminder of nixed plans”, here.
- Spacing Toronto post, “Shedding light on public transit and hidden disabilities”, here.
- Spacing Toronto post, “GARDINER EAST: Using the rail corridor to unlock the highway riddle”, here.
- Steve Munro’s post, “The Evolution of Demand on the Union Pearson Express”, here.
- Steve Munro’s post, “Metrolinx Fare Integration Study: Heading to a Foregone Conclusion?”, here
- Steve Munro’s post, “TTC Budget 2016: Confused Priorities Lead to a Confusing Budget (Part II)”, here.
- Steve Munro’s post, “TTC Budget 2016: Confused Priorities Lead to a Confusing Budget (Part I)”, here.
- Steve Munro’s post, “The Evolution of Service on Queens Quay”, here.
- Tech Insider post, ‘How to use the best new feature in Apple Maps”, here.
- Torontoist post, “Another shiny streetcar arrives”, here.
- Torontoist post, “Mapping Toronto’s Potential New 2016 Bike Lanes”, here.
- Toronto Life’s Daily Informer post, “Could the Scarborough RT really become a High Line-style elevated park?”, here.
- Treehugger post, “Blaming the victim again: Toronto once again tells pedestrians not to dress in black, but it’s a lost cause”, here.
- TTCriders.ca post, “Metrolinx ‘very pleased’ with 23% drop in ridership on Union Pearson train; we’re not”, here.
- Urban Toronto post, ” City Considering Revised Options for Gardiner’s ‘Hybrid’ Future”, here.
- Urban Toronto post, “Photo of the Day: Spadina Textures”, here.
- Urban Toronto post, “Metrolinx Issues Request For Proposals for Finch West LRT”, here.
- Urban Toronto post, “Colliers Finds Correlation Between Commercial Demand and Transit”, here.
- Urban Toronto post, “Throwback Thursday: Bathurst and St. Clair”, here.
- Yonge Street post, “Ontario needs to make better infrastructure spending choices, say reports”, here.
- YorkRegion.com article, “Trudeau announces ‘historic funds for transit’ at Richmond Hill bus garage”, here.
Elsewhere in the Greater Golden Horseshoe
- Cambridge Now post, “GO Rail Link to Cambridge Is Endorsed by Council In Principle”, here
- CBC News Hamilton report, “Help pick public art for new West Harbour GO Station”, here.