by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | May 20, 2008 | Canada, GTA Culture, GTA Education, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario
I still think that this is a bad idea? There are other ways to solve social issues and problems. Excuses are unacceptable and only help to further alienate various groups in our city. However, if someone can provide me with a reason this a good idea, I am all ears....
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | May 18, 2008 | GTA Development, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto
“TTC chairman Adam Giambrone says a new subway line cutting through the bottom of the city is a “good idea,” one the TTC will start looking at seriously by 2018. The Downtown Rapid Transit project, or Downtown Relief Line (DRL), would relieve congestion at the...
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...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Dec 9, 2007 | Canada, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario, Toronto
It’s an embarrassment that Canada’s busiest airport still isn’t linked to Toronto’s downtown core by public transit and getting it done should be a priority, federal Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon said Friday. In a speech to the Toronto...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Dec 4, 2007 | GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Public Transit
In an effort to be entirely impartial, posting the opinions of others, I’ve decided to list a link to the “Subway Now” group. Although I understand what they are attempting to do I still wonder who is going to really end up paying for the extension of the subway to...