Torontoist » lrt http://torontoist.com Torontoist is about Toronto and everything that happens in it Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:01:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A St. Clair Journey

Photo by DdotG from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Let’s start by getting a few things straight about public transit, especially the varieties that run on rails. The streetcar that travels St. Clair Avenue West along the recently constructed right of way is not light rail transit (LRT)—though it has often been confused with LRT by [...]

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Photo by Andrew Louis/Torontoist. “How many buses did it take you to get here?” This was one of a series of questions posed to attendees of last night’s Public Transit Coalition launch at City Hall, an event aptly titled Save Transit City. The robustly attended public protest rallied against Premier Dalton McGuinty’s four-billion-dollar funding cut [...]

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The Star‘s website is reporting that at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow morning, the TTC will announce details of a plan to blanket the city in a network of sixty to eighty kilometres of Light Rapid Transit (or LRT, as it’s affectionately called). The cost, according to Giambrone, will be an anything-but-light $30 million per kilometer, which [...]

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