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...
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 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...
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...
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...