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Toronto Council Approves Sheppard East LRT
Toronto Council, after over a day and a half’s debate, has approved the construction of a Sheppard East LRT from Don Mills to Morningside by a vote of 24-19. This completes the rout of Mayor Ford’s...
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The Sheppard LRT Report (Part III)
Many background presentations informed the Expert Panel’s review of options for the Sheppard corridor. This article is the first of two summarizing and commenting on this information. There are six...
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The Sheppard LRT Report (Part IV)
Now we come to what I must call “The Chong Dissent”, the reports prepared under the company “Toronto Transit Infrastructure Limited” (TTIL), a dormant TTC corporation resurrected for the purpose...
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Metrolinx Resurrects Transit City (Updated)
Updated April 26, 2012 at 1:10pm: This article has been updated to reflect discussions at the Metrolinx Board meeting of April 25, the press scrum following that meeting, and correspondence between me...
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TTC Meeting Wrapup: May 1, 2012
The TTC board met on May 1. This was a quiet affair without the political drama of the “old” Ford-stacked Commission, and I almost missed the bumbling antics of the old crew. The agenda was on the...
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TTC v. Metrolinx (Again): Who’s In Charge Here? (Update 2)
Updated June 8, 2012 at 11:00am: My comments about the Commission’s action appear in an article on the Torontoist website. Updated June 1, 2012 at 9:15am: The motions passed at the TTC meeting of May...
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“One City” To Serve Them All
Updated June 27 at 5:20pm: I have written a political analysis of today’s announcement for the Torontoist website that will probably go live tomorrow morning. A line-by-line review of the plan will...
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OneCity Plan Reviewed
The OneCity plan has much to recommend it even though in the details it is far from perfect. The funding scheme requires Queen’s Park to modify the handling of assessment value changes, and they are...
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Metrolinx Dumps TTC as LRT Partner (Maybe)
Updated October 4, 2012 at 9:20 am: Mr reaction to the announcement yesterday that TTC would remain as “operator” of the LRT lines is on the Torontoist website. Although the TTC sees this as a “good...
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TTC Madness: A Subway for Everyone
Today’s meeting of the transit commission was expected to be a modest affair with approval of the Downtown Relief Line study’s recommendations, and a few other housekeeping items. What happened was a...
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TTC Meeting January 21, 2013 (Updated)
This month’s TTC board meeting has a rather thin agenda. Whether that will lead to a short meeting is another matter. Updated January 22, 2013 at 8:30 am: Results of the meeting have been added to...
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Feeling Congested Part 2: Setting Priorities
The City of Toronto’s Planning Department is consulting with the public for the development of an updated Official Plan. The plan’s transportation component falls under the rubric of “Feeling...
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Memo to Glen Murray & Karen Stintz: Are You Really Serious About Transit in...
With all the upheaval of transit plans for Scarborough, politicians fall over each other to tell Scarborough residents how downtrodden and ignored they have been, how they always get the short end of...
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Where Will the Scarborough Subway Go?
The Toronto Star reports that Queen’s Park is contemplating an alternative route to Toronto’s proposed Scarborough subway extension via Eglinton and McCowan to Sheppard East. The key paragraphs in the...
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Neptis Reviews Metrolinx: A Critique (III)
This article is the third section of my critique of the December 2013 review of the Metrolinx Big Move Plan written by Michael Schabas for the Neptis Foundation. It should be read in conjunction with...
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Neptis Reviews Metrolinx: A Critique (I)
In December 2013, the Neptis Foundation published a review of the Metrolinx Big Move plan authored by Michael Schabas. This review received prominent attention in the Toronto Star and is regularly...
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Metrolinx Board Meeting June 26, 2014 (Corrected)
Correction July 1, 2014: In the original version of this article, I attributed a comment to Metrolinx Chair Rob Prichard regarding the sharing of information between bidders on rapid transit projects,...
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Finch West LRT Soon, Sheppard East Not So (Updated)
Updated April 28, 2015 at 8:20 am: The decision to push construction of the Sheppard LRT out to the 2020s was taken quite recently as shown by two separate reports. In today’s Globe & Mail, Oliver...
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A Smarter SmartTrack
The SmartTrack scheme was born of an election campaign, but it was John Tory’s signature project, one he is loathe to relinquish despite its shortcomings. What’s that you say? I am just being one of...
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SmartTrack: Now You See It, Now You Don’t!
Oliver Moore in the Globe and Mail reports that there have been major changes to the SmartTrack plan, to wit: The western branch of the service to the Airport district will be provided by the western...
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