The Business Boom: How Taylor Swift’s Toronto Tour Dates Are Reviving Downtown November 14, 2024 Taylor Swift’s much-anticipated Toronto concerts are providing a powerful economic boost for the city’s downtown core at a crucial time. Since the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Downtown Toronto Traffic Woes Amid Taylor Swift’s Six-Night Takeover November 14, 2024 If you thought downtown Toronto traffic was bad on a normal day, brace yourself. Taylor Swift’s six-night residency at the Rogers Centre has transformed…
Subways for the Downtown Relief Line March 24, 2012 The war over Sheppard was barely finished and Andy Byford is already talking about a Down-town Relief line; hoping to take the pressure off the packed Yonge-University-Spadina…
Toronto introduces first ‘scramble’ crossings to improve pedestrian safety August 29, 2008 TORONTO — Pedestrians and drivers in Toronto will have to get used to a new traffic term: the scramble. Thursday was the first day…
The case for a Downtown Relief Line May 27, 2008 In the last 100 years, there have been many subway proposals that have come and gone. One of the first serious proposals, in 1911,…
Barrie’s downtown hit again by fire May 21, 2008 Firefighters continue to battle a blaze this morning that razed a section of the city’s downtown, the second major fire in less than six…
Toronto Transit Strike – The people are mad as hell! April 26, 2008 A midnight strike by the TTC caught many people off guard, some showing up early this morning expecting a train, bus or streetcar only…
