Photo by phirleh, from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. For about a year, Metrolinx, the Toronto and Hamilton area’s regional transit authority, has been studying the possibility of electrifying GO train tracks, all of which currently support only diesel-burning locomotives. Preliminary results from that study, detailed for the media this morning at Metrolinx headquarters, suggest that [...]

The Diesel ad on the side of the Rex, earlier in August, being put up. Photo by Nancy Paiva/Torontoist. Diesel’s most recent ad campaign is stupid. The company’ll readily admit it: “Be Stupid” is the whole hook. Ads beg consumers to “Think Less. Stupid More.” Others warn that “There’s no cure for stupid.” Stupider still, [...]

Photo by smedliposki, from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Yesterday, Ontario’s minister of the environment gave his approval to Metrolinx’s Georgetown South Service Expansion/Union-Pearson Rail Link (GSSE/UPRL) project. The minister’s decision is the final step in the project’s provincial environmental assessment process. The project will be a boon to transit in the GTA, but not everyone [...]

Remember when you went to that modelling agency that used to be over the Pizza Pizza, and they said you had potential but you should pay 500 bucks for some head shots, so you did and then they looked at them and said sorry but you’re actually kind of ugly? Or was that just us? [...]