Posted on April 26, 2008 by thegtapatriot
A midnight strike by the TTC caught many people off guard, some showing up early this morning expecting a train, bus or streetcar only to find the lines abandoned. Last night, clubgoers poured out of bars when news of the strike spread.
“No way, no way,” Jorge Bayona, out with friends at Yonge-Dundas Square, said at [...]
Filed under: GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto | Tagged: April 2008, city, Contract Jobs, David Miller, Downtown, Employees, Liberals, Mississauga, Negotiations, Public Transit, Streetcars, strike, Toronto, TTC, Union, Viva, YRT | No Comments »
Posted on December 13, 2007 by thegtapatriot
Are you looking for transit related information? Have you had enough of the political promises? Look no further than the links below. From opinion on GO Transit expansion to the TTC spending and more, check out these links below for excellent commentary on transit related issues.
The Toronto LRT Information Page - informing GTA residents on [...]
Filed under: Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto | Tagged: brampton transit, BRT, Bus Rapid Transit, durham transit, Go Transit, Light-rail, LRT, Mississauga Transit, Public Transit, subways, trains, TTC, via rail, Viva, YRT | No Comments »
Posted on October 24, 2007 by thegtapatriot
This was not on the table during the last provincial election; however loosing the TTC may be the evolution of progress or the greatest public transit “coup” ever conceived by the Province of Ontario.
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Filed under: GTA Issues, Public Transit | Tagged: David Miller, Go Transit, Province of Ontario, Public Transit, takeover, Toronto, TTC | No Comments »
Posted on October 20, 2007 by thegtapatriot
To be honest, I love subways and I have a bit of a bias towards the Sheppard Subway line. I have always believed that if the subway was completed, or at least ½ done, than it would have never been considered as an option to close or shut down, in the Toronto tax crunch. I [...]
Filed under: GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto | Tagged: Bathurst, City of Toronto, Downsview, EA, Eglinton West Subway, Environment Assessment, Etobicoke, Greg Sobara, Greg Sorbara, gta, high-density, Jane and Finch, New York Subway, Public Transit, Sheppard, Sheppard subway line, Sheppard-Vaughan-Finch, Spadina, Subway, tax, The Sheppard Subway, Toronto, Toronto LRT, Transit City, TTC, Vaughan, Victoria Park, Viva, Warden, Yonge-University, York, York Region, York U, YRT | 3 Comments »
Posted on October 11, 2007 by thegtapatriot
I am sure that David Miller, and all of the city councilors, were watching the election closely. Essentially, Torontonians have decided to put Dalton McGuinty back in power, but voting overwhelmly for Liberals in various ridings. An interesting note is that NDP voters seemed to be concentrated in the downtown areas, where David Miller’s support [...]
Filed under: GTA Politics | Tagged: 2001, city council, City of Toronto Act, Dalton McGuinty, David Miller, election, leadership race, NDP, Ontario, Public Transit, tax, Taxes, Toronto, Torontonians, Transit City, TTC | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 9, 2007 by thegtapatriot
In reading the history of Toronto and the TTC, high investments were made in public transit, which helped the TTC become one of the top transit systems in North America. However during an episode of the Agenda with Steve Paikin, which airs on TVO, one of the panelists mentioned that we need to make investments [...]
Filed under: GTA Environment, GTA Issues, Public Transit, Toronto | Tagged: Brampton, BRT, Dalton McGuinty, Durham, Greg Sorbara, gta, Hurontario, Liberals, Light-rail, LRT, Mississauga, Move 2020, Ontario, Public Transit, Steve Paikin, Streetcars, subways, Toronto, TTC, TVO, Vaughan, Viva, York Region, YRT | No Comments »
