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. [...]

Glad Hand is Torontoist’s political cartoon, created by Brett Lamb and appearing here every Friday.

The nebulous politics of cyclist/motorist affairs are not exactly new to 2010—both the tragic Bryant/Sheppard Incident and the hyperbolic War on the Car made it into last year's sweep of villains. While the ongoing battle to create safer and more efficient road sharing infrastructure is a hot topic, it's not nearly as hot as some of the tempers that have been coming to a boil over the issue.

Like clockwork, every year, pedestrian injuries peak in winter and early summer. In fact, we’re likely just coming down from one such peak right now—the switch back from Daylight Savings Time has been blamed for triggering it. But January of this year saw a much worse rash of traffic collisions, which at one point killed ten pedestrians in eight days. The police response? A widely publicized "pedestrian blitz" that handed out tickets for jaywalking, which in many cases is not, in fact, an offense.

Ask Torontoist features questions posed by you, and answered by our elite team of specially trained investigative experts (also known as our staff). Send your questions to ask@torontoist.com. Reader Sivan Vaisman asks: I was wondering why there are streetcar tracks on Adelaide. There are no power cables for them as far as I can see. [...]

Motorists line up at Costco’s gas station at its Scarborough location. Over the past couple months, Costco, the members-only wholesaler better known for its massive quantities of just about everything, added gasoline to its product line by opening gas stations at its Etobicoke and Scarborough locations. What’s resulted could best be described as utter insanity. [...]

Illustration by Matt Daley/Torontoist. Cabbies who execute U-turns with no warning. Drivers who refuse wait two seconds at a pedestrian crossing. Hotshots who think nothing of showing off their ultra-cool set of wheels by shifting into warp drive without any care about anyone else sharing the road. Car owners who ignore the existence of turn [...]

Glad Hand is Torontoist’s political cartoon, created by Brett Lamb and appearing here every Friday.

The G20 is coming! The G20 is coming! It’s easy to catch Summit Fever this June, what with every major news outlet in the country covering what might just be the biggest event of the summer (if, you know, you don’t like soccer). Much has been made of the intended discussions, the possible agreements, and [...]

Source: New Liberty, March 1948. For at least a year, Labatt’s ran a series of public service announcements in New Liberty magazine that touted their touring psycho-physical driving test units, whose stops included the Canadian National Exhibition. While the ads showed how drivers learned how to better gauge appropriate spaces to pass and find out [...]