Greater Toronto and Golden Horseshoe area media report on public transit issues today.
Greater Toronto Area
- Varsity article, “An easier commute or a more difficult ride?”, here.
- YorkRegion.com article, “Newmarket council takes step toward Mulock GO train station plan”, here.
- YorkRegion.com article, “Ontario adding 2,400 new parking spaces at two Vaughan GO train stations”, here.
- YorkRegion.com article, “Newmarket’s public transit right of way cuts travel times by a third”, here.
- YorkRegion.com article, “Aurora considers blowing the whistle on GO Transit train horns”, here.
Elsewhere in the Greater Golden Horseshoe
- Barrie Examiner article, “[Innisfil] Council all aboard GO station proposal”, here.
- CBC Hamilton report, “Ask questions, get answers, encourage dialogue on LRT”, here.
- CBC Hamilton report, “Packed council chamber as LRT issue gets public airing”, here.
- CBC Hamilton report, “HSR workers should operate Hamilton’s new LRT: [councillor]”, here.
- CTV News Barrie report, “Innisfil town council selects preferred location for GO train station”, here.
- Hamilton Community News article, “Hamilton’s LRT project takes some hits from residents, but keeps on going”, here.
- Hamilton Spectator column, “Exhausting LRT meeting long overdue”, here.
- Hamilton Spectator article, “LRT feedback: Hamilton gets its chance to speak for and against $1 billion project”, here.
- Hamilton Spectator editorial, “Sending all the wrong signals on LRT”, here.
- Hamilton Spectator commentary, “LRT is one step in making Hamilton [the] best it can be”, here.
- Hamilton Spectator commentary, “Rejecting LRT could cause Hamilton to stagnate further”, here.
- Hamilton Spectator commentary, “Dinosaurs, streetcars and the LRT”, here.
- Hamilton Spectator commentary, “GO Transit improvements fail to consider Niagara students”, here.
- Hamilton Spectator article, “LRT cash not available for other projects: McMeekin”, here.
- Hamilton Spectator article, “$61 million plan to widen Linc, Red Hill won’t ease gridlock: report”, here.
- NiagaraThisWeek article, “Transit evolution in Niagara at ‘critical juncture’”, here.
- Orangeville Citizen editorial, “Wanted: public transit solutions”, here.
- Railway Age post, “Engineering Hamilton’s new LRT”, here.
- Raise the Hammer post, “Forty minutes of sound and fury signifying one very important thing”, here.
- Raise the Hammer post, “Hamilton Cannot Afford To Delay Light Rail Implementation”, here.
- Raise the Hammer post, “How Best to Seize the Light Rail Opportunity”, here.
- Raise the Hammer post, “Hamilton Physicians Endorse Light Rail”, here.
- Raise the Hammer post, “Councillor Brenda Johnson’s opposition to LRT is absurd”, here.
- Raise the Hammer post, “A Hamilton Technology Company Co-Owner’s Perspective on Light Rail”, here.
- St. Catharines Standard article, “Consolidation recommended for transit systems”, here.
- Santa Rosa Press Democrat article, “SMART spurred by Toronto engine failure to replace engines on its cars”, here.
- Seymour Tribune article, “Cummins working with two companies over faulty engine reports”, here.
- Talk Radio AM640 report, “More than $60 million already spent on Hamilton LRT”, here.
- Talk Radio AM640 report, “No referendum on [Hamilton] L-R-T due to legal opinion”, here.
- Talk Radio AM640 report, “[Hamilton mayor] Fred Eisenberger calls out LRT ‘nervous Nellies’”, here.
- Talk Radio AM640 report, “Caution urged on [Hamilton] LRT direction”, here.
- Talk Radio AM640 report, “[Hamilton] Mountain councillor pens LRT letter to Transportation Minister”, here.
- Talk Radio AM640 report, “Video of bus driver helping a senior goes viral!”, here.
- TB News Watch post, “Metrolinx to explore options outside of Bombardier”, here.
- Waterloo Region Record article, “Top Bombardier officials meet with region”, here.
- Waterloo Region Record article, “Province plans new GO bus facility on Shirley Avenue [in Kitchener]”, here.