If nothing else (but really, nothing), Mayor Rob Ford is truly tenacious. Following a protracted city council debate over the future of transit on Sheppard Avenue East, Ford and his fellow subway-ites were defeated yesterday; council voted 24–19 to go forward with light rail on this stretch of Sheppard, rather than to extend the existing [...]

In the run-up to today’s vote on the future of rapid transit on Sheppard Avenue, Mayor Rob Ford loudly declared to the press that he would consider enacting a new tax to fund his preferred option for the corridor—a subway extension—only if voters approved the measure in a citywide referendum. Since Ford’s proposed subway extension [...]

Almost 300 enthusiastic supporters cheered on Mayor Rob Ford during an appearance and speech at Monday night’s “Subways Are For Everyone” transit forum at Scarborough Civic Centre. The mayor, Scarborough politicians, and an exclusively pro-subway panel didn’t need to sway the partisan crowd, and didn’t try to address most criticisms of Ford’s unfunded subway vision. [...]

Apparently, the mayor has snagged two additional votes for city council’s final showdown to determine what now feels like the age-old question: to subway or to light-rail? Former LRT loyalist North York councillour James Pasternak has defected to the subway side, and Ford ally Ron Moeser promises not to be ill this time. While the [...]

“This is going to be a heated meeting,” an audience member confided to us before last night’s transit town hall meeting began at the North Toronto Memorial Community Centre. That prediction was prompted by an angry woman at the opposite end of our row, who bemoaned the number of business bankruptcies tied to the construction [...]

For the infamously beleaguered subway-versus-light-rail decision—which has been assaulting the news forever and ever and, seemingly, ever—respite may come in the form of six days. That’s right. The city council meeting planned to finally—maybe—ascertain what type of transit will be built on Sheppard Avenue East has been moved from March 21 to March 15. And [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]