According to Glenn Garwood of the Toronto Railway Historical Association, two vices and a pollutant formed the backbone of puritan Toronto’s industrial economy in the early decades of the 20th century: “It was beer and liquor, with railroads in between,” he says, referring to the Gooderham and Worts distillery to the east of downtown, the [...]

Photo by sarnya from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Yesterday, Metrolinx released their draft Regional Transportation Plan or RTP [PDF], their much-anticipated proposal for systematically tackling transit issues in the GTHA (the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area). Many of the key goals are ones we’ve heard before, though they’ve rarely been presented as part of a [...]