The gold scissors were ready. The red, green, and gray ribbons on the platform were taut for the ceremonial cut. Standing in for Ontario Premier George Stewart Henry, Attorney General W.H. Price finished addressing the crowd in the waiting room. At 12:30 p.m. on December 19, 1931, Price took the gilded shears, snipped the tri-coloured [...]

Torontoist‘s own Steve Kupferman takes the wheel of a TTC bus. Every year for the past four decades, the TTC has held an event they call a “Roadeo,” wherein workers compete against each other in challenges designed to test how well they’re capable of performing their jobs. It’s part of the TTC’s annual company picnic. [...]

Deputants pack a City Hall committee room, at yesterday’s meeting of the TTC. Photo by Steve Kupferman/Torontoist. The TTC’s masters met Wednesday to decide what to do about those forty-eight bus routes that were supposed to have their hours cut, and then reallocated to busier routes in the fall. The Commission ultimately decided to go [...]

Reader Cy Goldsbie sent us this tale of a bus ride to remember: Boarded the southbound Leslie bus at Leslie subway station as usual at 7:30 on a Tuesday morning earlier this month and, as is my habit, continued reading my book. As we’re about to pull out of the station, the driver stops, looks [...]

Photo by sarnya from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Yesterday, Metrolinx released their draft Regional Transportation Plan or RTP [PDF], their much-anticipated proposal for systematically tackling transit issues in the GTHA (the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area). Many of the key goals are ones we’ve heard before, though they’ve rarely been presented as part of a [...]

Bob Rae and Martha Hall-Findlay win seats for the Liberals in federal by-elections. Downside: oh, God, Bob Rae. Upside: commenters will have to wait until the next federal election to bitch and moan about Torontoist contributor and Green Party candidate Chris Tindal’s column (Chris finished in third place, with only thirty-six fewer votes than NDP [...]

Congratulations. You’ve just moved into a home or apartment in the rapidly growing city of North York to start your bright future. You either don’t own a car or prefer to use one as little as possible. Fixed public transit services haven’t quite made it out to your neck of the woods yet you really [...]

At first we assumed it was Scientology. After all, who else has the money to produce and purchase space for such glossy anti-pharmaceutical ads, which have been popping up all over transit shelters and buses in Ontario and Montreal? Google wasn’t much help, and their Blog Search just pointed us to other people as perplexed [...]

“The Better Way Gets Better,” yesterday’s TTC press release proclaimed, teasing the media for today’s big announcement of service changes. And, really, it’d be hard to disagree. As anticipated, today at the TTC’s Arrow Road Garage, David Miller and Adam Giambrone announced a fleet of changes to the TTC’s fleet of bus and streetcar routes, [...]

One of the pillars of the TTC’s plan to trim its budget is to cut some twenty-one “poor performing” bus routes. But what, exactly, is a “poor performing” route? As it turns out, transit whiz Steve Munro claims, it sure isn’t what the TTC says it is: “in a flat fare system,” he writes, “it [...]