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Toronto transit looks to reopen streetcar bidding

Posted by [email protected] | Aug 27, 2008 | Canada, Ontario, Public Transit, Technology, Toronto, World |

TORONTO, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Toronto’s transit authority said on Tuesday it will recommend to its commissioners that it enter into a new bidding process with three major light rail manufacturers to replace the...

TTC streetcar deal to Alstom?

Posted by [email protected] | 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...

Toronto Queen streetcar named among world’s best

Posted by [email protected] | Jan 28, 2008 | Canada, GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA History, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto, World |

National Geographic includes the TTC’s Queen streetcar, the 501, one of the top 10 trolley routes in the world. It’s a crowded ride, but oh, what a view. The 501 has become emblematic of the stretched service on the...

Digging up a Queen Street ghost story in Toronto

Posted by [email protected] | Dec 3, 2007 | GTA Culture, GTA Development, GTA History, Public Transit |

Streetcar platform dug in 1950s and never used sits behind a door, a buried relic of an old transit vision. To the thousands of patrons passing through the Queen subway station, it’s just another anonymous TTC maintenance...

Toronto’s $1.25-billion light-rail gamble

Posted by [email protected] | Nov 24, 2007 | GTA Development, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Public Transit, Toronto |

Check out the “Globe and Mail” link below for this excellent post on Toronto’s Light-Rail Transit City situation. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071124.TTC24/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/...