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 December 4, 2007 by thegtapatriot
In an effort to be entirely impartial, posting the opinions of others, I’ve decided to list a link to the “Subway Now” group. Although I understand what they are attempting to do I still wonder who is going to really end up paying for the extension of the subway to Richmond Hill at Hwy #7 [...]
Filed under: GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Public Transit | Tagged: BRT, LRT, Markham, richmond hill, Subway, subway now, subwaynow.ca, Thornhill, TTC, Viva, York Region | No Comments »
Posted on December 1, 2007 by thegtapatriot
“Construction booms, but opinions remain sharply divided as the often-derided Sheppard line turns 5. The futuristic chrome plating in Sheppard-Yonge station already looks a little scuffed. But it was only five years ago – Nov. 22, 2002 – that then-mayor Mel Lastman cut the ribbon to open Toronto’s northern east-west subway line, accompanied by a [...]
Filed under: GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Politics, Public Transit | Tagged: , BRT, Eglinton, finch, Flemingdon Park, Lawrence, LRT, ROW, Scarborough Town Centre, Sheppard, Sheppard Line, Sheppard Subway, St. Clair, Steeles, subwaynow, Toronto, Transit City, Transit Mall, TTC, Vaughan, Viva, York Mills | No Comments »
Posted on November 21, 2007 by thegtapatriot
It looks like the GTTA has received funding for the following projects. Maybe I am still in disbelief until I see shovels in the ground? I am not in favour of all of the plans listed, but this definitely will be some good news for once for public transit in the Greater Toronto Area. What [...]
Filed under: GTA Development, GTA Issues, Public Transit | Tagged: , 2020, Ajax, Bolton, BRT, DRT, Durham, Durham BRT, Durham-Highway 2, GO, Go Transit, GTTA, Halton, Hamilton, Highway 7, Light Rail Transit, LRT, Mississauga, Mississauga Transitway, MoveOntario, MoveOntario 2020, Niagara, Ontario, Oshawa, Peel, Pickering, richmond hill, right-of-way, ROW, streetcar, Tram, Transit City, TTC, VIA, Viva, Whitby, Yonge subway | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 18, 2007 by thegtapatriot
With the amount of vehicle interference in the downtown area once again the issues of streetcars has surfaced. With the need to improve transit, the debate over mixed traffic and streetcars, now and again pops up with the discussion turning to the old idea of a Queen Streetcar Subway. Unfortunately there is just too much [...]
Filed under: GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Issues, Public Transit | Tagged: Adelaide, ALRV, CLRV, David Miller, Downview Subway, King, King Street, King Streetcar, LRT, Queen, Queen Street, Queen Streetcar, Queen Subway, Richmond Street, right-of-way, ROW, Sheppard Subway, streetcar, Subway, Toronto, Toronto Council, Toronto Transit Commission, Transit City, Transit Mall, TTC, Viva, York University, YRT | No Comments »
Posted on October 24, 2007 by thegtapatriot
The Toronto Star, CityTV (Breakfast Television) and other media outlets are reporting that the TTC maybe “high-jacked” by the Liberal Government of Ontario, which may have been secretly planned all along. Rumors are flying high that the TTC may be taken over by the Government of Ontario and merged with GO Transit, under the umbrella [...]
Filed under: GTA Culture, GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto | Tagged: , Adam Giambrone, Breakfast Television, Buses, City of Toronto, City of Toronto Act, CityTV, Dalton McGuinty, David Miller, Don Mills, GO, Go Transit, Government, Greg Sobara, Greg Sorbara, gta, GTTA, high-jacked, highjacked, King Street West, Liberal, Malvern, Markam, Metropass, Mississauga, North Etobicoke, Ontario government, Province, Provincial, Rumor, Streetcars, the Beaches, Toronto, Toronto Star, Toronto Transit, Transit City, TTC, Vaughan, Viva, YRT | 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 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 »
