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"Crowdsourcing" corrections to TTC information Actually, there may be a glimmer of opportunity amid the TTC's embarrassment. For a while I’ve been noticing opportunities to crowdsource corrections of various TTC information media. What’s needed is a venue where the transit-using community can...

TTC is tight with the facts, but it seems to me that the failure of A/C on hybrids seems to include a failure of the entire bus! Operators may be refusing to turn on A/C out of a generalized fear the hybrid will break down. Can you refuse a hybrid on a hot day, just because its a hybrid...

Ontario Northland & GO + private bus lines Now that GO has expanded, you can travel much of the province on services directly provided by Ontario taxpayers. Niagara, Peterborough, Barrie, Sudbury and all the way to James Bay -- it's actually a lot of coverage. Do we need to have provincial...

Egregious example or no, it's a useful point Expecting Transit City to whip us across town is unrealistic -- it does appear toward the local end of the local-regional continuum. But will GO or some 'SuperGO' get us to Pearson? I rode with someone leaving the airport late last night. She...

Toronto Island Airport tunnel: Transport 2000 Ontario opposed (I got this earlier...) For immediate release August 25, 2009 (Toronto) The Toronto Port Authority has asked for $38 million to build a pedestrian tunnel from the waterfront to the island airport. The Premier is reportedly...

Not In My Back Yard, but Under it... Yes -- while I find the attempt to derail Sheppard LRT unrealistic and possibly counter-productive I understand how the perspective was reached. The bottom-line intent is to improve the transit network. Some potential petition signers, however, could...

Advocacy perspective from 90s/early 2000s Just for the record, many of the transit advocates I have known (albeit geezers 40+) had little love for Sheppard. While there was not a consensus, per se, many viewed it as Mel Lastman's folly -- cut short by budget short-sightedness. I'm talking about...

nfitz, my impression is this is not a plan that TTC staff would have proposed on their own. I could be wrong, but this is likely something Giambrone/Miller/Perks and others promoted. I'd be surprised if they did not also consult respected transit advocates and/or established transport...

Montréal tram route "announced" 21 August 2009 http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/10/montreal-tram-route-announced.html CANADA: On August 14 the city of Montréal released a study into proposals for a new tram line which had been commissioned from a consortium of Genivar...

TTC appears to be holding onto the details. I wonder if the Star will get a scoop. Steve Munro in early 2008: Update: Today I learned that the TTC is working on a scheme for better bus service. According to Chair Adam Giambrone: The TTC is developing a Transit City Bus plan that...

Explaining my writing... Don't forget the demographics of Metro. The column is aimed at people who are nowhere near as familiar with the status of transit projects as folks on this board. I try to fit a lot of info into 435 words, and trust it is of use to readers. It would be great to...

Except for the sad few decades that we just finished. Is it so easy to forget what it was like to have virtually no investment for 20 years? I understand that some feel LRT is inadequate, and that subways are the way to go for much of the turf that Transit City covers. Maybe if I had not...

It could be very interesting to watch potential Miller opponents flesh out their transit policies over the next year. Will they push for a larger overall capital investment in transit, which subways would require? How might they convince the province and feds to come up with this cash, when all...

People Mover upgrade? Old news: http://www.niagarafalls.ca/city_hall/departments/transportation_services/transit/people_mover/index.asp http://www.niagarafalls.ca/city_hall/departments/transportation_services/transit/people_mover/environmental_economic_assessment.asp Newer news...