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

Greater Toronto Area

• Beach Metro News article, “Get your creativity rolling with 506 Project writing contest”, here.
• BetaKit post,”PWC, Uber, City of Toronto and Metrolinx partnering to host hackathon”, here.
• BlogTO post, “The 5 most dangerous bus routes on the TTC”, here.
• BlogTO post, “Cheaper Union Pearson Express fares start…”, here.
• Brampton Guardian article, “McLaughlin Road back on the table as LRT route option”, here.
• CanIndia News article, “Brampton councillors kill LRT tunnel option”, here.
• Canadian Press article (from the CP24 website), “Man, 70 dies weeks after being hit by TTC bus in Parkdale”, here.
• CBC News Toronto report, “New SmartTrack plan unanimously approved by Mayor John Tory’s executive committee”, here.
• CBC News Toronto report, “Crews break ground on first of 25 Eglinton Crosstown stations”, here.
• CBC News Toronto report, “Swiftly app finds 53% of TTC vehicles not arriving on time”, here.
• CBC News Toronto report, “TTC denies Swiftly report that 53% of vehicles not arriving on time”, here.
• CBC News Toronto report, “TTC calls for patience amid planned weekend closures”, here.
• CBC News Toronto report, “Smoke, flames, but no injuries in TTC streetcar fire”, here.
• CBC News Toronto report, “Union Pearson Express launches reduced prices… “, here.
• CBC News Toronto report, “TTC bus snaps Jane Street hydro pole”, here.
• CityNews Toronto report, “The next 40 years of Toronto’s transit future brought closer to reality by city council”, here.
• CityNews Toronto report, “Finch West among 5 most dangerous TTC bus routes”, here.
• CP24 report, “More than 320 crimes occurred on 36 Finch West bus over last five years: data”, here.
• Digital Signage Today post, “New digital signage video wall pulls into Toronto’s Union Station”, here.
• Global News Toronto report, “Wynne, Tory celebrate ground-breaking on 1st Crosstown LRT station”, here.
• Global News Toronto report, “The next 40 years of Toronto’s transit future brought closer to reality by city council, here.
• Global News Toronto report, “Reduced Union Pearson Express fares come into effect”, here.
• Global News Toronto report, “Is the UPX a better option for residents of west-end Toronto?”, here.
• Globe and Mail column, “Toronto’s transit deal not done until the wheels go round and round”, here.
• InsideToronto.com article, “Planning for changes to major Parkdale intersection must include residents: community association chair”, here.
• Mississauga News blog post, “Cooksville will establish its new identity… in due course”, here.
• National Post commentary, “John Tory pleads ‘guilty’ as SmartTrack and other transit lines chug closer to reality”, here.
• National Post commentary, “All aboard Liz May’s subsidy express”, here.
• Newstalk 1010 report, “Man with a knife on board a bus at Davisville Station”, here.
• Oshawa Express article, “‘Important budget for Durham Region and Oshawa’”, here.
• Railway Tracks & Structures post, “Ontario breaks ground on first Eglinton Crosstown LRT station”, here.
• Ride This Crazy Train post, “Kitchener commuters get the shaft”, here.
• Spacing Toronto post, “Transit relief is a long way down the road”, here.
• Steve Munro’s post, “Transit Network Analysis, SmartTrack and the Mysteries of Future Growth”, here.
• Steve Munro’s post, “What is the TTC Policy on Fares?”, here.
• Steve Munro’s post, “Memo to Toronto Planners”, here.
• Steve Munro’s post, “Reviewing the New Schedules on 501 Queen for January 2016 (Part II)”, here.
• Steve Munro’s post, “Charlotte Street Reconstruction”, here.
• Torontoist post, “What Does the TTC Do During Weekend Subway Closures?”, here.
• Toronto Life post, “A look at one man’s Lego tribute to TTC streetcars”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “Mayor John Tory’s executive endorses next steps in building transit network”, here.
• Toronto Star column, “New transit plan is as good as we’re going to get”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “Subway closures painful, but ‘worth the wait’”, here.
• Toronto Star editorial, “Sorry, York, the Yonge subway is full”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “Fraud, assault top list of crimes on TTC buses”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “TTC vs car vs UPX: What’s the better way downtown Toronto?”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “Voice of the TTC fades to retirement”, here.
• Toronto Star column, “Time for councillors to ask tough transit questions”, here.
• Toronto Star column, “Why Vaughan should stay out of Toronto transportation planning”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “What every TTC streetcar would look like as Lego”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “TTC streetcars, buses don’t usually run on time: report”, here.
• Toronto Sun editorial, “Why Toronto transit always runs late”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “What you need to know about Eglinton Crosstown”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “Lower fares lure riders to UP Express”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “GTHA awash in transit projects”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “Tory defends scaled-down SmartTrack”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “Transportation minister hammered over Metrolinx ‘slush fund’”, here.
• Toronto Sun report, “Metrolinx doled out $1.3 million in grants”, here.
• Urban Toronto post, “Transit Plan Inches Towards Reality at Executive Committee”, here.
• Urban Toronto post, “Relief Line: Are the Public Consultations Really Just Briefings?”, here.
• Urban Toronto post, “Report Give Hope for VIA Rail Connections to Montreal, Ottawa”, here.
• Urban Toronto post, “Photo of the Day: Yard Work”, here.
• YorkRegion.com column, “On the contrary, there’s plenty of room in Vaughan for Toronto transit”, here.

Elsewhere in the Greater Golden Horseshoe

• AM 900 CHML News commentary, “Why bother with a Citizen Panel?”, here.
• APTN News report, “Buried souls: How Ontario bulldozed through a rare Huron-Wendat burial site in Barrie”, here.
• APTN News report, “Archaeologist says ‘guts churning’ knowing land he cleared for GO Transit to bulldoze is Huron-Wendat burial site”, here.
• APTN News report, “Huron-Wendat call for immediate investigation after APTN uncovers Ontario desecrated burial site in Barrie”, here.
• Brantford Expositor article, “Details to be worked out for GO bus”, here.
• CBC News Hamilton report, “Mayor says he won’t push suburbs to pay more for transit”, here.
• CBC News Hamilton report, “Brantford gets new GO bus link to GO trains”, here.
• Hamilton Spectator editorial, “Are Hamilton gondolas really pie-in-the-sky?”, here.
• Hamilton Spectator column, “Chamber is not on board with cable-car scheme”, here.
• Hamilton Spectator article, “Hot Hamilton: Economic growth to outpace national average”, here.
• Hamilton Spectator article, “Hamilton average tax bill poised to jump by $67”, here.
• Hamilton Transit blog post, “Mohawk College terminal to open on March 27th”, here.
• Hamilton Transit blog post, “March 18, 2016 is Transit Driver Appreciation Day…”, here.
• MyKawartha.com article, “City of Peterborough sued for initially denying to sell Pro-Life ad on buses”, here.
• Railway Age post, “Hamilton LRT making progress”, here.
• Raise the Hammer post, “Citizens’ Jury on Transit Report: Reasonable People Reaching Reasonable Conclusions”, here.
• Raise the Hammer post, “Council has a Responsibility to Resolve Area Rating for transit”, here.
• Raise the Hammer post, “Terry Whitehead’s Cute War Against Safer Streets”, here.
• Waterloo Region Record article, “$43 million transit hub planned at King and Victoria Streets in Kitchener”, here.