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Casino battle is all about getting something for nothing: DiManno
Toronto :: Canada | 1 month ago
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Save to mystar If Toronto so desperately needs a honking huge convention centre, it should build one. That wouldn't be anywhere near as costly as constructing new subway lines, which the city requires far more urgently than a big box playpen for
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Metrolinx set to unveil short list of possible revenue tools
Toronto :: Canada | 1 month ago
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CTV Video video It may be officially spring but southern Ontario received yet another taste of winter as evidenced by the pedestrians bundled up agains the cold and waiting for a TTC streetcar on Spadina Ave...Peter Power/The Canadian Press video The
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Why the future of urban transit might be a taxi
Toronto :: Canada | 5 months ago
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Story Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid fears the country will head over the fiscal cliff Video Video I argued in the previous posts that provision of AT services will be the main use of driverless cars, which are moving rapidly towards production
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Toronto commuters will be able to use Presto cards on TTC by 2016
Hamilton :: Canada | 6 months ago
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Commuters in the Greater Toronto Area will soon be able to navigate eight separate municipal transit systems as well as the regional GO Transit system using a single fare card. Transit officials say the regional Presto card will cover the Toronto
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Toronto residents uninformed about Metrolinx transit plan
Toronto :: Canada | 8 months ago
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The Globe and Mail Published Monday, Oct. 08 2012, 11:59 PM EDT Last updated Monday, Oct. 08 2012, 11:19 PM EDT Four years ago, the provincial agency Metrolinx came up with a comprehensive plan to deal with congestion in Greater Toronto and Hamilton
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Stintz transit plan reduced to a footnote on a future study
Toronto :: Canada | 11 months ago
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Kelly Grant and Elizabeth Church The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Jul. 11 2012, 7:05 PM EDT Last updated Wednesday, Jul. 11 2012, 7:13 PM EDT In a serious blow to TTC Chair Karen Stintz and her allies, Toronto city council has killed the
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Officials flagged holes in plan to pay for Sheppard subway
Toronto :: Canada | 11 months ago
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Story video The revelations come on the eve of the OneCity debate at City Hall that will focus, among other things, on the viability of a new Scarborough subway line and, come fall, the tax tools required to build additional rapid transit. Mr. Ford
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Transportation minister says province won't back OneCity transit plan
Toronto :: Canada | 11 months ago
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Stintz's OneCity proposal Road map to the future: Stintz's OneCity proposal width:970px;margin-left:-485px; The light rail lines planned for Eglinton Finch are expected to be completed by 2020, along with the replacement and extension of the
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TTC chair pitches transit tax
Toronto :: Canada | 11 months ago
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Get ready Toronto for a new transit tax or at least a massive fight over slapping one on every property. In what Mayor Rob Fords loyalists are already calling a back door tax attack, TTC chair Karen Stintz is proposing adding $180 a year to the
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TTC reports $22 million surplus due to ridership growth last year
Ottawa :: Canada | 11 months ago
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The crowded Yonge line is one symptom of increasing ridership at the TTC, which continues to grow beyond projections. If you thought the TTC was feeling a little, let's say close, in 2011, you weren't imagining things. The TTC was packing them in
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