by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Mar 22, 2012 | Canada, News, Public Transit, Toronto
It seems that the transit debate is over. With a vote of 24 – 19, Rob Ford lost his battle to get the Sheppard Subway built and completed. Torontonians’ have endured a long battle over transit, with Rob Ford championing the cause of subways for the...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Mar 16, 2012 | Canada, Info, News, Ontario, Toronto
News has just broken that Bell has bought outright the entire assets of Astral media. This means that the popular News Talk 1010 is now owned by Bell. Definitely showing that convergence is not dead in Canada. It will be interesting to see how this will play out in...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Mar 9, 2012 | Canada, GTA Politics, News, Ontario, Politics, Public Transit, Toronto
LRT or Subways? This has been the ongoing debate, unfortunately the lines between truth are certainly grey. Let’s start with the Eglinton Cross-town, which definitely the current hot potato. Rob Ford has continued to use the word “subways”, which...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Feb 21, 2012 | Canada, GTA News, GTA Politics, LRT, Public Transit, Toronto, TTC
Well let the war begin in the city of Toronto. In an apparent move to remove all opposition to Mayor Rob Ford’s subway plans a special Toronto Transit Commission meeting called with only one item on the agenda. A vote to remove Gary Webster’s from the...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 24, 2011 | Canada, Markham, Newmarket, Ontario, Public Transit, Richmond Hill, Toronto, Unions, Vaughan, Viva, YRT
There seems to be a lot of confusion over what is running and what is not in York Region. Details from the YRT/VIVA site are listed below, however there is much confusion over exactly which routes are not in operation. Some TTC routes, that go into Markham are still...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Sep 21, 2011 | Canada, Election, GTA History, GTA Issues, GTA News, Oshawa, Politics, Sci-Fi, Science, Technology, Toronto, USA
TORONTO – Second World War pilot Philip Gray says it is “immoral” that Downsview Park is evicting the Canadian Air and Space Museum. “This is a terrible way to repay young 21-year-old boys who went to war and never turned 22. I am disgusted that their heritage...