by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Aug 13, 2008 | GTA Development, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario, Public Transit
Leave the Transit City plan alone and do not attempt to hijack the Eglinton-Crosstown line or any other part of the Transit City plan. Who am I speaking to? Well none other than Metrolinx. The organizational body in charge of coordinating transit plans across the...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Aug 13, 2008 | GTA Development, GTA Issues, GTA News, News, Ontario, Toronto
From CFRB Toronto: With the safety of propane filling sites near residential areas under question following Sunday’s explosions and fire in Downsview, a report has come out that indicates 337 sites exist in the GTA where there are propane filling tanks. Read...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | May 27, 2008 | GTA Development, GTA Issues, Public Transit, Toronto
In the last 100 years, there have been many subway proposals that have come and gone. One of the first serious proposals, in 1911, would have seen streetcar subways built under Yonge, Queen and Bloor streets to feed city and interurban cars downtown. Later proposals...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Apr 26, 2008 | GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto
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,”...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Dec 9, 2007 | GTA Politics, Ontario
As I have mentioned before if the PC’s decide to go the “neo-conservative” route, and it plays out in the public eye as an “internal turf” of their leader, it maybe many years before they ever hold the seat of power in Ontario again. Insiders have also...