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TTC streetcar deal to Alstom?

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Aug 25, 2008 | Canada, GTA Development, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario, Public Transit, Technology, Toronto

By Christina Blizzard It’s a contract worth $3 billion in tax dollars and thousands of jobs for the provincial economy. The TTC’s bid to buy 204 low-floor streetcars is the largest public transit contract in the world right now. Yet it’s hard to...

More political interference with the Transit City plans will cause delays

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...

Toronto explosion rock the northwest of the city – Downsview area

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Aug 10, 2008 | Canada, Emergencies, GTA Environment, GTA Issues, GTA News, News, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto, World

A series of explosions at a propane facility early Sunday forced police to evacuate a residential area in the city’s northwest. “It was just a tremendous explosion and blew all the windows out of the house, just blew the house up, and I just managed to get...

Before You Move: Where Are The Next Transit Hubs?

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | May 27, 2008 | Canada, GTA Development, GTA Issues, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto

Here’s an easy question: where do you live? Now here’s a much harder one: where should you live to ensure you’re near a GTA transit hub and how will the TTC’s plans for expansion impact the value of your home? The answer to both queries can be...

The case for a Downtown Relief Line

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...
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The Eglinton Crosstown and Mayor Olivia Chow

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said she’s “speechless” about the continued delayed of the Eglinton Crosstown, saying she’s no more knowledgeable on the project than residents and business owners who’ve been waiting years for it to wrap up.

“I don’t know what to say anymore, it’s leaving me speechless,”  said Chow.

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