Photo of the T3 Tramway from *** Fanch The System !!! ***. On Friday evening at City Hall, two representatives of the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP)—Vice-President Philippe Martin and Director of Open Spaces and Heritage Remi Feredj—gave a public presentation on Paris’s T3 LRT system to share lessons for Toronto to learn from. [...]

Whether we like it or not, some of us will be in Toronto all summer, with nary a trip or vacation elsewhere in sight. As a remedy, we’ve created Tourist. Every weekend morning, bright and early, of the summer we’re featuring a photo (or two) from a globe-trotting photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Pompidou‎ [...]

Torontoist’s European bureau decamped this past weekend to the French Riviera. And you can rest assured that—between enjoying the beaches and drinking on sunny patios—we took time to consider the public transportation system. Nice has a good (and not over-infrastructured) blend of transit modes: trams on dedicated lines along the most-travelled stretches, buses that blanket [...]

The younger members of the “Toronto 18″ were clueless dupes, according to the RCMP informant on the case. Best line from the story: “At one point, he said, the leaders hid in the bushes and made wolf and bear noises.” Thank God we caught them early or they would have been making animal noises outside [...]