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• Etobicoke - Finch West LRT open houses: December 1, 3, 7, 9

  
  Transit Toronto - Weblog — Authority: 443
  The TTC and the City of Toronto are hosting another series of public open houses to present their plans for the new Etobicoke - Finch West light rail Transit City line along Finch Avenue West between Yonge Street and the area of Humber College’s North Campus at Highway 27. At these open houses staff will ...
  2 days ago

• Eglinton LRT Project Open Houses

  
  Steve Munro's Web Site — Authority: 127
  Starting tonight, there will be a series of open houses for the Eglinton project . All Open Houses will be held from 6:30pm to 9:00pm. November 23:  York Memorial Collegiate (cafeteria), 2690 Eglinton Avenue West November 24:  Etobicoke Olympium (2nd floor Lounge), 590 Rathburn Road November 25:  Northern ...
  4 days ago

• LRT: Complete Rail Route

  
  Yappa Ding Ding — Authority: 415
  You can find this map here . ###
  5 days ago

• Extension of LRT-2 to Tondo and Antipolo being studied

  
  PinoyBusiness.ORG - Home — Authority: 138
  The LRT-2 which currently runs 13.8 kilometers and traverses five cities in Metro Manila – which are Pasig, Marikina, Quezon City, San Juan, and Manila along the major thoroughfares of Marcos Highway, Aurora Boulevard, Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard, Legarda and Recto, is undergoing study for its on both its east and ...
  1 week ago

• AM.MN: Will Quist make Walz quake? Will Wilf make Lege quake?

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 669
  Republican Allen Quist has been angling to get back in elective office since 1994 — about the same length of time the Minnesota Vikings have spent angling to get a new taxpayer-funded stadium. Now both are making dramatic moves. Vikes owner Zygi Wilf says he’s washing his hands of “ political games ” and the ...
  1 week ago

• LRT vs iXpress: The UW R&T Park

  
  Yappa Ding Ding — Authority: 415
  The LRT is going to replace the existing iXpress bus route. In many locations, the LRT stations are going to be much less convenient than the iXpress. Here is one example. As the following map shows, the iXpress currently stops in the middle of the Park (the bus stop is labelled iXp ). The LRT, however, has to run ...
  1 week ago

• Metrolinx “Big 5″ Update (November 2009)

  
  Steve Munro's Web Site — Authority: 127
  Today’s Metrolinx Board Meeting was notable both for the update, in public session, of the project status for five major lines as well as for supplementary information that came out in a press scrum after the public session. Five projects now have funding and are at various stages in their approval/construction ...
  1 week ago

• What LRT Will Do to the King-Erb Intersection

  
  Yappa Ding Ding — Authority: 415
  The major intersection in uptown Waterloo is King and Erb. It is the busiest intersection in uptown, both for cars and pedestrians. It has historical landmarks on its corners. All the major parts of uptown are close by: restaurants, shops, cinemas, Waterloo Square, the library, an office tower, a hotel, and so on. Of ...
  1 week ago

• What LRT Will Do to the Junction of Albert and Erb

  
  Yappa Ding Ding — Authority: 415
  When Erb crosses Bridgeport-Caroline, it becomes a one-way street heading east. It is a very busy street, taking traffic from the west end of the city to the Conestoga Parkway, as well as taking people to destinations uptown and elsewhere. As it approaches King Street, two lanes of Erb Street split off to the left ...
  1 week ago

• What LRT Will Do to the William-Caroline Intersection

  
  Yappa Ding Ding — Authority: 415
  The intersection of William and Caroline is a busy uptown location, especially at rush hour. Many people travel between Kitchener and Waterloo along Park Street, making the jog at William over to Caroline. People also take William Street to move between uptown and Westmount Road. The intersection of Caroline-William ...
  1 week ago

• Markham Road / Sheppard construction affects TTC service this weekend

  
  Transit Toronto - Weblog — Authority: 443
  The City of Toronto is closing parts of the intersection of Sheppard Avenue East and Markham Road this weekend as part of a project to upgrade the sewers. From 1 a.m. tomorrow, Saturday, November 14 until 5 a.m. on Monday, November 16 , the City will close Markham Road at Sheppard to north-south through traffic. ...
  2 weeks ago

• What LRT Will Do to the Erb-Bridgeport-Caroline Intersection

  
  Yappa Ding Ding — Authority: 415
  Bridgeport Road becomes Caroline Street when it crosses Erb. It is a very busy intersection, and will get much busier when the Barrel Yards development is completed 100 meters to the west on Erb. (The Barrel Yards will include hotels, apartment buildings, an office tower and town houses.) It will also get busier when ...
  2 weeks ago

• Eglinton LRT Update

  
  Steve Munro's Web Site — Authority: 127
  At its meeting on November 17, the TTC will consider a report on the Eglinton LRT Transit Project Assessment.  A few items have caught my eye already: Another round of public meetings starting from November 23 to December 10 will present the final version of the design. The scheme for handling left turns has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unpleasantness as a Political Tactic

  
  Yappa Ding Ding — Authority: 415
  Many years ago I was on the board of a neighborhood association in downtown Toronto. All the members of the board were residents of the area except the president, who owned a gas station there but lived in the suburbs. At one point the interests of residents diverged from the interests of the gas station, and at the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is Light Rail a Gentrification machine?

  
  twin city sidewalks — Authority: 115
  "The building of railways seems to be a simple, natural, democratic, cultural and civilising enterprise; that is what it is in the opinion of the bourgeois professors who are paid to depict capitalist slavery in bright colours, and in the opinion of petty-bourgeois philistines." --Lenin, "Imperialism, the Highest ...
  2 weeks ago

• Central Corridor fight points to need for sidewalk advocacy

  
  twin city sidewalks — Authority: 115
  It was a cold day in Saint Paul. The mayor stood on the sidewalk in front of the bus stop, and shivered through his grey suit. His voice carried through the microphone, and a dozen journalists scribbled down a few words about cities and equality. They knew what he was going to say, and they knew what they were going ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Public transit stupidity is a mathematical inevitability”

  
  KHdN - Kenneth Hynek (dot Net) — Authority: 434
  From Weird Science at Ars Technica : This is something I see almost every day in the New York City Transit system. A bus pulls up at a stop that’s so densely packed with commuters that they practically explode out when the doors are opened. Less than a minute later, it’s followed by a pair of nearly empty ...
  2 weeks ago

• tHe idiOts proMo : LRT launches a new service named “BO-BO”! perfect name for a bobo service

  
  WAWAM! after hours — Authority: 132
  LRT launches "BO-BO", perfect name for the new service the conclusion is that the LRT launched a new service, got page 1 coverage, that does not serve anyone and does not give anyone any benefit.  it is a classic for tHe idiOts proMo. you may be having a headache now at this point. this new service is probably ...
  2 weeks ago

• Transit Improvements for Pan Am Games? Dream On.

  
  Steve Munro's Web Site — Authority: 127
  Toronto will host the 2015 Pan-Am Games thanks to an overwhelming vote in favour of Toronto’s bid on November 6.  No sooner was the announcement out, but we started to hear what a boon this would be for transit pending in Toronto. Let’s take a serious look at what will actually happen. Don Lands The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Roundup: 30 Oct 09

  
  fresh.mn — Authority: 119
  The Minnesota Budget Project (whose Minnesota Budget Bites blog is a really fascinating read for lay people like myself, by the way) sums up the tax changes in the 2009 legislative session . It’s longish, but in an easy-to-read format with headlines, bullets, tables, etc. You can easily skim for the part you’re ...
  4 weeks ago

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